Wednesday 9th October 2013
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Sora on the Isles of Scilly, on Tresco, with Arctic Warbler, Purple Heron, Short-toed Lark, Bluethroat, Rose-coloured Starling, Spotted Crake, Grey Phalarope, three each of Red-breasted Flycatcher and Wryneck, four Balearic Shearwaters and 11 Yellow-browed Warblers all logged around the archipelago. On the Shetland Isles the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler remained, with American Buff-bellied Pipit, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Rustic Bunting, Red-throated Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Little Bunting, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Richard's Pipit, Dotterel, two each of Short-toed Lark, Red-backed Shrike and Great Grey Shrike, three Lapland Buntings and 10 Yellow-browed Warblers around the islands. Elsewhere, new rarities included a Thrush Nightingale in Dorset at Portland Bill, and two Richardson's Cackling Geese together on Islay, Argyll. Meanwhile, lingering rarities included the Isabelline Wheatear still in Pembrokeshire, Pied-billed Grebe and Black Duck in County Mayo, Two-barred Crossbills in Norfolk and Surrey, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Black-winged Stilt and American Golden Plover in Cornwall, Blue-winged Teal in Clyde and Lincolnshire (3), Long-billed Dowitcher in Glamorgan, Baird's Sandpipers in both County Cork and Gloucestershire, and 15 Glossy Ibises spread across eight counties.
-  Chris Batty, RBA