NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today - from Rare Bird Alert

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News summary for yesterday
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	The highlight of the day was the relocation of the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Orkney on North Ronaldsay. In Ireland a Fea's Petrel species was located from a pelagic off Seven Heads, County Cork. The two itinerant juvenile Black Storks remained overnight in Lincolnshire and then by late afternoon had arrived on the Suffolk coast where the remained at Hemley until late in the evening. Elsewhere, continuing rarities confirmed as still present comprised the Long-tailed Shrike on the Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire border, Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Hudsonian Godwit between Essex and Suffolk, two White-winged Scoters together in Lothian, Western Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Ferruginous Duck on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border, and single White-rumped Sandpipers in each of Cornwall, Kent and Norfolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA