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Tuesday 21st October 2025  
  Mega highlights consisted of a Rufous-tailed Robin on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, an Eyebrowed Thrush at Porthloo on St. Mary's, Scilly, and a Black-faced Bunting at Bridge of Fitch, Shetland.

New rarities included a Rustic Bunting at Cape Clear, Co. Cork, Olive-backed Pipit at Fair Isle and another near Hoswick, Shetland, Isabelline Wheatear at Fair Isle, Shetland, Hume's Warbler at Balephuil, Argyll, Bonaparte's Gull at Milk Bay, Co. Antrim, and Pallid Harrier at Snettisham Coastal Park, Norfolk.

Continuing rarities included Black-faced Bunting in East Yorkshire, Eastern Nightingale (form golzii) in Aberdeenshire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Staffordshire and Co. Wexford, Dusky Warbler in Norfolk and East Yorkshire, Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire, Hume's Warbler in East Yorkshire, Steppe Grey Shrike in Cornwall, Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, Baikal Teal in Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Western Isles and Co. Wexford, Red-flanked Bluetail in Kent, Harlequin Duck in County Donegal, American Pipit in Scilly and Co. Galway, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, Pacific Diver in Co. Cork, Cackling Goose in Co. Mayo, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Co. Sligo, Northern Harriers in Co. Wexford, and Zitting Cisticolas in Suffolk.

Late News included Red-throated Pipit at Gore Lane, Exmouth, Devon from yesterday.
Ben Clark, RBA
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