Friday 17th September 2010
	Newly discovered rarities today comprised a Citrine Wagtail on the Shetland Isles, Red-throated Pipit and Ortolan Bunting together in Cornwall, single Glossy Ibises in each of County Londonderry, Northamptonshire and Somerset, and in Ireland a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Galway, an American Golden Plover in County Cork and a White-rumped Sandpiper in County Kerry. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present included the House Crow in County Cork, House Finch and three Glossy Ibises in Devon, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Spotted Sandpiper on the Isles of Scilly, King Eider in Suffolk, American Golden Plover on the Orkney Isles, White-rumped Sandpiper in Kent, two Ferruginous Ducks together in Somerset, and in County Wexford a Wilson's Phalarope, two Blue-winged Teals and two Glossy Ibises all noted at Tacumshin. Scarcities were represented by 25 Pectoral Sandpipers, 10 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, nine Long-tailed Skuas, six Wrynecks, five Sabine's Gulls, four Great White Egrets, three each of Common Rosefinch and Red-backed Shrike, and single Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Woodchat Shrike (County Cork), American Wigeon (Gwynedd), Snow Goose (Dumfries and Galloway), Hoopoe (Pembrokeshire), Purple Heron and Red-necked Phalarope (both Lancashire).
-  Chris Batty, RBA