Thursday 21st August 2014
	Headline birds included a Blyth's Reed Warbler, Rustic Bunting, Common Rosefinch and Barred Warbler on Unst (Shetland), all in one garden at Baltasound, Long-billed Dowitcher in Co Offaly, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Bee-eaters on Isle of Wight, Ferruginous Duck in Suffolk and Bonaparte's Gull in Co Durham. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling in Devon, Grey Phalarope in Essex, Glossy Ibis in Kent, Cattle Egret in West Sussex, Temminck's Stint in East Yorkshire, Melodious Warbler in East Sussex and Surf Scoter in Aberdeenshire. An Isles of Scilly pelagic produced a Wilson's Petrel and at least 300 Great Shearwaters.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA