Thursday 9th October 2008
	The confirmation of Britain's first Alder Flycatcher is the main news for today, with the continued presence of the bird in Nanjizal Valley, Cornwall. It was trapped mid afternoon, and biometrics showed it to be at the extreme large end of Alder Flycatcher, and is therefore probably a male. In Ireland, both the Little Blue Heron and the Scarlet Tanager remained in County Galway and County Cork respectively, although poor weather probably hampered further discoveries being made. The impressive flock of fifteen Ring-necked Ducks were still on Inishmore, County Galway, together with Long-billed Dowitcher and Yellow-browed Warbler. Two new Red-eyed Vireos were found today, one on Tiree, Argyll and one on Gugh, Scilly, joining the two already present on St Mary's, on The Garrison, and St Agnes in The Parsonage, where the Blackpoll Warbler remained. Elsewhere on the archipelago, a Radde's Warbler was on St Martin's and an American Golden Plover was on St Mary's. Away from the south-west, the star bird was the Wilson's Phalarope in Norfolk, which was relocated at Salthouse. Single Glossy Ibises remained in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, the Ferruginous Duck was still in Buckinghamshire and the Red-footed Falcon was still present at Tophill Low, Yorkshire. A Richardson's Canada Goose was seen for half an hour at Covenham Reservoir, Lincolnshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA