Saturday 31st August 2013
	A Stilt Sandpiper at Neumann's Flash (Cheshire) was today's headline discovery. Elsewhere rare waders included White-rumped Sandpiper in Suffolk, Semipalmated Sandpipers in Co Wexford (4), Western Isles and Co Donegal, Lesser Yellowlegs in Carmarthenshire and American Golden Plover and Baird's Sandpiper in Co Wexford. A Barolo Shearwater off Loop Head (Co Clare), Booted Warbler on Shetland, Citrine Wagtails on Fair Isle, Mainland Shetland (2) and Isles of Scilly (3), Greenish Warblers in Shetland, Co Durham and Northumberland, Snowy Owl in Co Donegal, Pied-billed Grebe in Co Mayo, Bonaparte's Gull in Lancashire, two Two-barred Crossbills in South Yorkshire and Glossy Ibis in Somerset were all logged today. The best of the rest included at least 25 Wrynecks, nine Red-backed Shrikes, eight Spotted Crakes, three Pectoral Sandpipers, two Short-toed Larks, Night Heron (South Yorkshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Norfolk), Ring-necked Duck (Lothian) and Dotterel (Conwy).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA