Friday 11th October 2013
	New arrivals found on Shetland today included a Grey-cheeked Thrush, Blyth's Reed Warbler and Little Bunting on Fair Isle, a Black-bellied Dipper on Unst and a White-rumped Sandpiper, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Blyth's Reed Warbler on Mainland. Lingerers on the archipelago included Pechora Pipit, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Isabelline Shrike and Wilson's Phalarope. Elsewhere, single Rustic Buntings were brief visitors to Warham Greens, Norfolk and Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, with a Coues's Arctic Redpoll and Two-barred Crossbill further south in Kent. An American Golden Plover was at Swainbost, Lewis, Western Isles and Glossy Ibises were found at Longton Marsh, Lancashire (four), Weymouth and Portland, Dorset and Newport Wetlands, Gwent. Other lingering rarities seen today included the Sora on the Isles of Scilly, Thrush Nightingale in Dorset, Western Bonelli's Warbler in Orkney, Long-billed Dowitcher in Glamorgan, Baird's Sandpiper in County Kerry, American Golden Plover in County Galway, three Blue-winged Teals in Lincolnshire, Lesser Scaup in Greater Manchester, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll and Glossy Ibises in Shropshire, Somerset (three), Kent and Staffordshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA