Tuesday 24th September 2013
	The higlight of the day was the discovery of the second Eastern Kingbird for the Western Palearctic, again - like last year - in County Galway, but this time on Inishbofin. New rarities elsewhere included a Brown Shrike on North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles, a Siberian Stonechat in Gwynedd on Bardsey Island, and a Booted Warbler found on Hook Head, County Waterford. On the Shetland Isles Two-barred Crossbill, three Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls, Arctic Warbler, Citrine Wagtail, Western Subalpine Warbler, Little Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, three each of Red-breasted Flycatcher, Barred Warbler and Red-backed Shrike, 11 Common Rosefinches, 14 Lapland Buntings and 58 Yellow-browed Warblers were logged. Meanwhile, on the Isles of Scilly Ortolan Bunting, Rose-coloured Starling, Icterine Warbler, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, two Roseate Terns, four Sabine's Gulls and eight Wrynecks were noted. Nearctic waders included Baird's Sandpiper (County Donegal (2) and County Kerry (2)), Lesser Yellowlegs (Kent and County Wexford), American Golden Plover (County Clare and County Kerry) and six Pectoral Sandpipers. Otherwise, lingering rarities confirmed as still present included the Elegant Tern in County Kerry, four Two-barred Crossbills together in South Yorkshire, Bonaparte's Gull and nine Glossy Ibises in Devon, Lesser Scaup in Greater Manchester, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset, and Glossy Ibis in Cornwall.
-  Chris Batty, RBA