Monday 1st October 2012
	Shetland produced a new Pechora Pipit (on Fair Isle) and a new Siberian Stonechat (on Out Skerries), whilst the Isles of Scilly attracted a Western Bonelli's Warbler (St Martin's). Quality rarities elsewhere included the seventh Siberian Stonechat for County Cork at Firkeel, a Red-throated Pipit over the Calf of Man, a Long-billed Dowitcher at Burton Mere Wetlands, Cheshire, Ortolan Bunting at Lissagriffin, County Cork, King Eider at Burghead, Moray and an American Golden Plover on Tiree, Argyll. Longer staying rarities included Pechora Pipit, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Paddyfield Warbler, two Blyth's Reed Warblers, Siberian Stonechat and Spotted Sandpiper in Shetland (other American Buff-bellied Pipits were still in County Antrim, County Kerry and the Western Isles), Short-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitchers in Northumberland and Gloucestershire (the latter individual relocating to Walmore Common), Forster's Tern in County Louth, Greenish Warbler in Kent, Ortolan Bunting in the Isles of Scilly and Glossy Ibis in Pembrokeshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA