Sunday 24th October 2010
	Today's discoveries included a Red-throated Pipit in Cornwall, Red-breasted Goose in Lancashire, Glossy Ibis in Norfolk, White-billed Diver in Shetland, Bonaparte's Gull in Co Durham and Little Bunting on Isles of Scilly. Lingering rarities comprised two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls and Black-throated Thrush on Shetland, American Golden Plover in Devon, Red-flanked Bluetail and King Eider in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxfordshire, Green Heron in Cornwall, Subalpine Warbler on Isles of Scilly, Ferruginous Duck in West Yorkshire and Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire. In Ireland the American Buff-bellied Pipit, Long-billed Dowitcher and White-rumped Sandpiper remained in Co Waterford, two White-rumped Sandpipers and a Lesser Yellowlegs were still in Co Wexford and the House Crow and American Golden Plover lingered in Co Cork. The Waxwing invasion gathered momentum, with the highest counts coming from Orkney (150 at Stromness), Highland (80 in Arisaig), Western Isles (75 on North Uist) and Argyll (75 on Jura).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA