| Wednesday 19th August 2015 | ||
| New discoveries comprised Booted Warbler and Thrush
Nightingale on Shetland,
Arctic Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Greenish Warblers
in Orkney and Shetland [2] and Citrine Wagtail on Isles of
Scilly, whilst Black Storks (Aberdeenshire and East Sussex),
Red-footed Falcon (Lincolnshire), Bonaparte's Gull and
White-rumped Sandpiper (Kent), Bee-eaters
(Cumbria) and Spotted Sandpiper (Wiltshire) all lingered. A scattering of scarce migrants, mainly on the east coast, included Temminck's Stint (North Yorkshire), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Fife), Common Rosefinch (Orkney), American Golden Plover (Co Donegal), Woodchat Shrike (Isles of Scilly), two Grey-headed Wagtails, two Dotterel, three Pectoral Sandpipers, five Red-backed Shrikes, ten Barred Warblers, 11 Icterine Warblers and at least 25 Wrynecks. |
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| - Stuart Piner, RBA | ||