Thursday 7th September 2006
	The star find today was a Glossy Ibis at Radipole Lake RSPB, Dorset. Only the second ever Wilson's Petrel to be recorded in the North Sea flew north past Hartlepool Headland, Cleveland early evening, whilst another was reported from a fishing boat off the Devon coast. Other new rarities came in the form of a White-rumped Sandpiper at Ballycotton, County Cork, a Baird's Sandpiper at Ferriter's Cove, County Kerry and two Cattle Egrets on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Many of yesterday's major rarities were still present, including the Citrine Wagtails in Scilly and Shetland, Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, Spotted Sandpiper in County Wexford and two Semipalmated Sandpipers in County Kerry. On Bryher, Scilly the Subalpine Warbler reappeared in the afternoon.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA