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Friday 28th August 2026  
  Discoveries today included in Ireland in County Kerry an Elegant Tern at Beale Strand (where it was first seen yesterday) and a Baird's Sandpiper at Ventry, a Western Bonelli's Warbler at Ballycotton, County Cork, and in County Clare two Fea's Petrel species passed Bridges of Ross, County Clare. In Britain a Great Snipe in Northumberland on Holy Island briefly, in Shetland a Pallid Harrier on Out Skerries (where it was first seen yesterday) and a Citrine Wagtail at Lerwick, Mainland, a Greenish Warbler in Highland at John O' Groats, and in Cornwall a Spotted Sandpiper at Helston Loe Pool and a Barolo Shearwater reported from Pendeen Watch.

Continuing rarities confirmed as still present were the Long-tailed Shrike along the Gloucestershire/ Oxfordshire border, Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Hudsonian Godwit and White-rumped Sandpiper in Suffolk, White-throated Sparrow in Fife, Franklin's Gull in Dorset, Subalpine Warbler species and Blyth's Reed Warbler in Shetland, Baird's Sandpipers in County Kerry (at Carrahane Strand) and Pembrokeshire, Spotted Sandpiper in County Dublin, Citrine Wagtail in Shetland, White-rumped Sandpiper in County Wexford and the Western Isles, and Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire.
Chris Batty, RBA