Tuesday 5th September 2006
	Southern Ireland once again produced the goods today, with two more Semipalmated Sandpipers being found in County Kerry, at Smerwick Harbour and Blennerville. Add to this an adult White-rumped Sandpiper at Trabeg, also County Kerry, the first Spotted Sandpiper of the autumn at Nethertown and a Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Tacumshin, County Wexford and the Greenish Warbler on Brownstown Head, County Waterford; it wasn't a bad day at all over the Irish Sea. On Scilly Bryher hosted both Greenish and Subalpine Warblers and a in Hampshire the juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper continued to show well at Keyhaven Marshes. In Suffolk the female Red-footed Falcon remained at Minsmere RSPB, as did the Citrine Wagtail on Fair Isle and Red-rumped Swallow at Hoswick, Shetland. There was some late news from Shetland that will have made many a British twitcher take a sharp intake of breath; the Hippolais warbler present on 16th August, which was initially identified as an Icterine Warbler, then reidentified as an Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, as been reidentified again from photos by Killian Mullarney, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson as the first Olive-tree Warbler for Britain and Northwest Europe.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA