Friday 9th October 2009
	On Shetland, a first-winter Taiga Flycatcher was on Yell, at Gloup. Two Olive-backed Pipits were nearby at Kergord, Mainland, with a juvenile American Golden Plover at Boddam. Two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls remain on Out Skerries, and the two Arctic Warblers were still at Wester Quarff, Mainland. Another Arctic Warbler was a new arrival on Cape Clear, County Cork, with two American Golden Plovers also on the island. The tenth Glossy Ibis for Aberdeenshire was at the Loch of Strathbeg RSPB reserve today, and single new Great White Egrets were in Essex and Gwynedd. On Scilly, the Long-billed Dowitcher was still on Tresco, with small numbers of scarcities starting to trickle through the archipelago. Other lingering rarities included Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Oxfordshire, King Eider in Lincolnshire, Glossy Ibises in Cambridgeshire, Northumberland and Somerset (4), White-rumped Sandpipers in Aberdeenshire and Essex, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, Long-billed Dowitcher in Cheshire and Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA