Tuesday 12th September 2006
	Talking point of the day was an adult dark morph Eleonora's Falcon on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, seen well in flight by a single observer over Old Grimbsy at 3pm. Elsewhere on Scilly an unidentified Bonelli's warbler species was found on Tresco with, around the archipelago, Subalpine Warbler, Woodchat Shrike, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike, three Wrynecks, Pectoral Sandpiper and Lapland Bunting. Yet more American waders were discovered in Ireland with a new Baird's Sandpiper at Annagh, Co Mayo and lingering elsewhere were three Semipalmated Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, White-rumped Sandpiper, two Pectoral Sandpipers and ten Buff-breasted Sandpipers (including eight together at Tacumshin, Co Wexford). On Shetland the highlights were the Great Snipe lingering on Unst and the Citrine Wagtail still on Fair Isle.
-  Chris Batty, RBA