Tuesday 16th October 2012
	In Scilly today Blackpoll Warbler, Solitary Sandpiper, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, and American Golden Plover on St Mary's, and Olive-backed Pipit on St Martin's. In Shetland today Lanceolated Warbler and Olive-backed Pipit on Fair Isle, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Olive-backed Pipit on Foula, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Olive-backed Pipit on Unst, Blyth's Reed Warbler and two Olive-backed Pipits on Mainland. On the Western Isles two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls together on Lewis, and on Barra Blyth's Reed Warbler and Olive-backed Pipit. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler still in Fife, Red-breasted Goose in Kent, Blyth's Reed Warbler in County Waterford, Spotted Sandpiper and American Golden Plover in County Clare, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cheshire and Gloucestershire, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Dublin, American Golden Plover in Orkney, Richardson's Canada Goose in County Sligo, Bonaparte's Gull in Pembrokeshire, two Lesser Scaups together in Somerset, and Glossy Ibises in Pembrokeshire (4) and Cornwall (7).
-  Chris Batty, RBA