Tuesday 30th September 2008
	The first Pechora Pipit of the autumn made landfall on Fetlar, Shetland today, joining an American Golden Plover and Blyth's Reed Warbler which remained on the archipelago. A Spotted Sandpiper was discovered on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and a first-winter Citrine Wagtail was on North Uist, Western Isles. In Cumbria both the Rustic Bunting and Stilt Sandpiper remained in the county - the Stilt Sandpiper was previously seen on Isle of Man on 17th September, before arriving at Campfield Marsh RSPB on 22nd. Other lingering rarities consisted of the Gull-billed Tern on Tiree, Argyll, Glossy Ibises in Cambridgeshire and West Yorkshire and Great White Egrets in Suffolk and Hampshire. The best of the rest included a Woodchat Shrike on Orkney, Temminck's Stint in Cornwall, Red-breasted Flycatcher on Isles of Scilly and Common Rosefinch on Shetland as well as fourteen Pectoral Sandpipers, five Great Grey Shrikes and at least thirteen Yellow-browed Warblers dotted around the country. Strong westerly winds pushed fourteen Leach's Petrels past Northwest England watch points.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA