Thursday 8th October 2015
	Today's headline discoveries were a Little Crake in Gloucestershire and an Isabelline Wheatear on Isles of Scilly. The Shetland Isles hosted Paddyfield Warbler and five Olive-backed Pipits, whilst elsewhere rarity sightings included Red-footed Falcon (Suffolk), Radde's Warbler (Northumberland), Black Kite (Essex), Red-throated Pipit (Co Kerry), Pallid Harrier (West Sussex), Lesser Yellowlegs (Co Cork), Ridgway's Cackling Goose (Devon), Long-billed Dowitcher (Hampshire) and Northern Harrier (Orkney). The best of the rest included Spotted Crake (Cheshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher and American Golden Plover (Shetland), White-winged Black Tern (Norfolk), Short-toed Lark (Isles of Scilly), Pallas's Warbler (Essex), Bluethroat (Orkney), two Common Rosefinches, two Hoopoes, two Red-backed Shrikes, two Wrynecks, three Rose-coloured Starlings, three Little Buntings, four Glossy Ibises, four Pectoral Sandpipers, at least six Barred Warblers, eight Great Grey Shrikes and 12 Richard's Pipits.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA