Wednesday 17th September 2014
	Once again, the products of the continued easterly winds were evident, with the Dauran Shrike still on the Orkney Isles, Pallid Harrier on the Shetland Isles, Rustic Buntings in North Yorkshire (new at Filey) and Northumberland, and Greenish Warblers in Norfolk (new at Winterton) and Northumberland. Associated scarcities included 38 Yellow-browed Warblers, 28 Red-breasted Flycatchers, 16 Barred Warblers, seven Lapland Buntings, six each of Little Bunting, Common Rosefinch, Red-backed Shrike and Wryneck, three Ortolan Buntings, two each of Rose-coloured Starling and Richard's Pipit, and single Short-toed Lark (Orkney Islands), Golden Oriole (Northumberland), Marsh Warbler (Shetland Islands) and Great Grey Shrike (East Yorkshire). Otherwise, the Snowy Owl continued (Moray), as did the Forster's Tern (County Louth), White-rumped Sandpiper (County Antrim), Lesser Yellowlegs (both Hampshire and Pembrokeshire), with Night Heron (Lancashire), Red-necked Phalarope and Cattle Egret (Cheshire), Temminck's Stint (Worcestershire), two Ring-billed Gulls, three Dotterel, four Long-tailed Skuas and Glossy Ibises, six Sabine's Gulls and 11 Pectoral Sandpipers. Significant late news from Cornwall concerned a Western Bonelli's Warbler at Nanjizal on 15th September, with an Aquatic Warbler there on 9th September.
-  Chris Batty, RBA