Sunday 2nd November 2014
	The highlight of the day was a Blackpoll Warbler present in Easington, East Yorkshire for a brief period in the early morning. Elsewhere, new rarities today were a Siberian Stonechat identified on Fair Isle, and a Bonaparte's Gull at Tramore, County Waterford. Other rarity news comprised the Bufflehead still on the Orkney Isles, Pied Wheatear on the Shetland Isles, Pallid Harrier in Somerset, Franklin's Gull in Hampshire, Forster's Tern in County Dublin, Subalpine Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Laughing Gull in County Cork, Spotted Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and County Dublin, Lesser Scaup in Powys, Richardson's Cackling Goose in County Sligo, and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Cambridgeshire, but the Eastern Crowned Warbler had gone from Brotton, Cleveland. Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler (Dorset), Hoopoe (Somerset), Wryneck (Pembrokeshire), American Golden Plover (Ayrshire), Red-necked Phalarope (Isles of Scilly), two each of Red-breasted Flycatcher, Barred Warbler and Red-backed Shrike, three each of Rose-coloured Starling, Richard's Pipit and Lesser Snow Goose, four Surf Scoters, 17 Rough-legged Buzzards and 30 Yellow-browed Warblers.
-  Chris Batty, RBA