Sunday 23rd August 2015
	Classic east coast fall conditions produced just that this evening, with good numbers of common and scarce migrants arriving. Rarities were hard to come by, however, with just a Greenish Warbler at Boarhills, Fife being involved. Other new rarities discovered today included a Fea's or Zino's Petrel past Kilcummin Head, County Mayo, a Gull-billed Tern past St Mary's Island, Northumberland, a Pallid Harrier at Loch of Spiggie, Shetland, a Lesser Yellowlegs at Conder Green, Lancashire, a Bonaparte's Gull at Teignmouth, Devon and a Subalpine Warbler species on The Garrison, Isles of Scilly. Lingering rarities included the Booted Warbler in Norfolk, Western Bonelli's Warbler in the Isles of Scilly, single Black Storks in Aberdeenshire and West Sussex, Spotted Sandpiper in Wiltshire, White-rumped Sandpiper and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Red-footed Falcon in Lincolnshire, three Bee-eaters in Cumbria and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. Scarcity totals included 19 Wrynecks, 19 Icterine Warblers, seven Barred Warblers, a Marsh Warbler, a Common Rosefinch, five Red-backed Shrikes, an Ortolan Bunting, six Pectoral Sandpipers, three Red-necked Phalaropes, a Spotted Crake, a Night Heron, a White-winged Black Tern and 26 Dotterel. Seabirds included two Leach's Petrels, a Grey Phalarope, five Great Shearwaters, two Cory's Shearwaters, ten Long-tailed Skuas and seven Pomarine Skuas. As well as very large numbers of Pied Flycatchers (the largest reported gatherings included 75 at Spurn, 52 at Flamborough Head, 45 on Blakeney Point, 40 on Isle of May and 30 at Burnham Overy Dunes), today saw a large movement of Wood Sandpipers with at least 192 reported (including 34 at Black Hole Marsh, Devon and 22 at Pennington Marshes, Hampshire).
-  Will Soar, RBA