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Wednesday 16th September 2026  
  Todays new rarities consisted of a Red-eyed Vireo at Inishmore in County Galway, a Eastern Olivaceous Warbler at Gugh in Scilly, a Baird's Sandpiper at Crook of Baldoon RSPB in Dumfries and Galloway, a Wilson's Phalarope at Meikle Loch in Aberdeenshire and a Lesser Yellowlegs at Saltholme RSPB in Cleveland.

Continuing rarities today consisted of Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Solitary Sandpiper on Scilly, Semipalmated Sandpipers in County Donegal and County Kerry, Baird's Sandpipers in County Cork, County Donegal, County Wexford , Argyll, Moray and Glamorgan, Long-billed Dowitcher on Orkney, Lesser Yellowlegs in Somerset, Black Stork in Suffolk, Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, American Black Tern in Shetland, Blackburnian Warbler in County Cork and White-throated Sparrow in Fife.
Luke Stoppard, RBA