Sunday 26th September 2010
	Both of yesterday's new Mega-rarities remained on show - the Alder or Willow Flycatcher at Blakeney Point (Norfolk) and Northern Parula on Tiree (Argyll). Elsewhere new rarities included a White's Thrush on Mainland Shetland, along with a Citrine Wagtail and Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Western Bonelli's Warbler and Whiskered Tern in Norfolk, Citrine Wagtail in Northumberland and Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on Orkney. In Ireland a Western Bonelli's Warbler, Baird's Sandpiper and four Blue-winged Teals were discovered. Lingering rarities came in the form of House Crow (Co Cork), House Finch (Devon), Spotted Sandpipers (Isles of Scilly and Devon), Whiskered Tern (Glamorgan), Lesser Scaup (Warwickshire), Greenish Warbler (Cornwall), Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (Shetland), Long-billed Dowitcher (Flintshire) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Kent).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA