Monday 7th September 2009
	The highlight of the day was the continued presence of the Fan-tailed Warbler in Kent at Pegwell Bay and the near-adult male Pallid Harrier at Haddenham, Cambridgeshire - the latter disturbing a party of seven Glossy Ibises from the Ouse Washes in the evening. In County Clare a Long-billed Dowitcher was a new discovery at Doonbeg whilst elsewhere lingering rarities comprised the Snowy Owl still in County Mayo, King Eider in Lincolnshire, Glossy Ibis in Somerset, Citrine Wagtail in Cornwall, Baird's Sandpipers in Anglesey, Cornwall (2) and County Kerry, Spotted Sandpiper in County Wexford, Wilson's Phalarope in Devon, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, American Golden Plover on the Western Isles, Greenish Warbler in Northumberland, Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire, Hooded Merganser in Cleveland, single Cattle Egrets in both Gloucestershire and Hampshire and Great White Egrets in Cambridgeshire (2), Kent, Leicestershire and Somerset. Scarcities included a Buff-breasted Sandpiper and two Pectoral Sandpipers on the Western Isles, single Purple Herons in both Cleveland and Shropshire, Spotted Crakes in Kent and Somerset and Ring-necked Ducks in County Mayo and Staffordshire, whilst landbirds were represented by a Woodchat Shrike (Somerset), Ortolan Bunting (East Yorkshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (County Cork), Red-backed Shrike (Kent), Lapland Bunting (County Mayo), two each of both Common Rosefinch and Wryneck and four Barred Warblers.
-  Chris Batty, RBA