Tuesday 8th September 2009
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Citrine Wagtail at Nethertown, County Wexford. Elsewhere, brief encounters included a Glossy Ibis on the Blyth Estuary, Suffolk, a Greenish Warbler on the Wirral at Hoylake and Alpine Swifts in Kent at Pegwell Bay and over King's Lynn, Norfolk. The Fan-tailed Warbler remained in Kent as did the Pallid Harrier in Cambridgeshire, although both proved elusive. Other lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Citrine Wagtail in Cornwall, Baird's Sandpipers on Anglesey and in Cornwall, Glossy Ibis in Kent, Cattle Egret in Hampshire, Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire, Hooded Merganser in Cleveland and Great White Egret in each of Cambridgeshire (2), Kent, Leicestershire, Somerset and Suffolk. Scarcities included a Melodious Warbler (County Cork), Icterine Warbler (Cornwall), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Western Isles), Woodchat Shrike (Somerset), Purple Heron (Cleveland), Ring-necked Duck (Staffordshire), Lapland Bunting (Orkney Isles), two each of Barred Warbler and Pectoral Sandpiper, three Common Rosefinches, four Spotted Crakes and five Wrynecks.
-  Chris Batty, RBA