Monday 30th September 2013
	Shetland achieved its fourth Hudsonian Whimbrel today, this time on Yell. No other county in Britain or Ireland has had more than one record of the species. The sixth Isabelline Wheatear for Wales was also found today, with the second for Pembrokeshire being seen at Martin's Haven from late morning. A Booted Warbler at Seaford Head, Sussex was the best of the rest, with other new rarities today including an Arctic Warbler, two Olive-backed Pipits and a Little Bunting on Shetland (with another Olive-backed Pipit in Fife and two Little Buntings in Northumberland), a Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, an American Golden Plover in County Wexford and Glossy Ibises in Devon, Lancashire, Anglesey and four in Dumfries and Galloway. A Blyth's Reed Warbler was reported from Red Rocks, Wirral. Lingering rarity highlights included Sykes's Warbler, Brown Shrike, Pechora Pipit, Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Lesser Yellowlegs on Shetland, Roller on the Western Isles, Sardinian Warbler in Borders, Western Bonelli's Warbler in County Cork, Subalpine Warbler and Little Bunting on the Isles of Scilly, Black-winged Stilt in Cornwall and Red-breasted Goose in Dumfries and Galloway.
-  Will Soar, RBA