Tuesday 28th September 2010
	An excellent day on the east coast and the Northern Isles produced Red-flanked Bluetails in Suffolk, Fife and Shetland, Lanceolated Warbler, two Arctic Warblers and American Buff-bellied Pipit on Shetland, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Radde's Warbler and Red-throated Pipit in Norfolk, Red-throated Pipit on Orkney and Rustic Bunting in East Yorkshire. In Argyll the Northern Parula lingered on Tiree, and in Gwent a Lesser Yellowlegs was discovered at Newport Wetlands. American Golden Plovers arrived on Western Isles and Co Kerry and in Co Cork the House Crow remained on show. Elsewhere lingering rarities comprised Rustic Bunting, on Shetland, Spotted Sandpipers on Isles of Scilly and in Devon, Western Bonelli's Warbler in Norfolk, Whiskered Tern in Glamorgan, King Eider in Suffolk, Wilson's Phalarope in Co Wexford, Greenish Warbler in Cornwall, American Golden Plover in Co Cork, White-rumped Sandpiper in Kent, two Blue-winged Teals in Co Waterford, two Ferruginous Ducks in Somerset and Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire. The best of the rest included a White-winged Black Tern in London, Hoopoe in Lancashire, Woodchat Shrike in Cleveland, Short-toed Lark on Shetland, Cattle Egret in Essex and Rose-coloured Starling in Co Cork.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA