Sunday 19th September 2010
	New discoveries today were headlined by five Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on the Shetland Isles, and, with the newly arrived Pink-footed Geese, three Ross's Geese (two together in Lothian and one over-flying Lincolnshire) and in Aberdeenshire a Small Canada Goose. American waders consisted of 23 Pectoral Sandpipers, 10 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, three White-rumped Sandpipers, two each of Wilson's Phalarope, Lesser Yellowlegs and American Golden Plover, and single Baird's Sandpiper (County Wexford) and Spotted Sandpiper (Isles of Scilly). Associated with these waders were three Blue-winged Teals in Ireland (two in County Wexford , one in County Cork). Lingering rarities comprised the Whiskered Tern still in Cheshire, King Eider in Suffolk, American Herring Gull in County Kerry, House Crow in County Cork, House Finch in Devon, single Ferruginous Ducks in both Bedfordshire and Somerset and Glossy Ibises in Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Scarcities included 431 Lapland Buntings, eight Wrynecks, six each of Barred Warbler and Red-backed Shrike, five Common Rosefinches (all on the Shetland Isles), two each of Ring-billed Gull and Great White Egret, a Melodious Warbler (Shetland Isles), White-winged Black Tern (Orkney Isles), Richard's Pipit (East Yorkshire), Red-necked Phalarope (Lancashire), Spotted Crake (Suffolk) and White Stork (West Sussex).
-  Chris Batty, RBA