Thursday 2nd October 2014
	Rarities on Shetland included Rustic and Little Buntings, Eastern Subalpine Warbler and King Eider. Elsewhere the Masked Shrike (East Yorkshire), Little Bunting (Scilly), Blue-winged Teal or hybrid (Northumberland) and Lesser Scaup (Glamorgan) all lingered, whilst a Lesser Yellowlegs was discovered in Co Cork. The best of the rest included Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Western Isles), Wryneck, Richard's Pipit and Marsh Warbler (Shetland), American Wigeon (Orkney), Hoopoe (Gwynedd), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Cattle Egret (Kent), two Rose-coloured Starlings, two Surf Scoters, two Pectoral Sandpipers, three Red-backed Shrikes, four Bluethroats, four Red-breasted Flycatchers and eight Barred Warblers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA