Sunday 18th October 2015
	New rarities today comprised a Red-flanked Bluetail and an Olive-backed Pipit at Hemsby, Norfolk (with others of the latter species at Brevig, Western Isles, Whitburn, County Durham, Hartlepool, Cleveland and Portland, Dorset), two Penduline Tits at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler at Kingsdown, Kent, Red-throated Pipit on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Lesser Scaup on Achill Island, County Mayo and single White-rumped Sandpipers at Loch of Strathbeg RSPB, Aberdeenshire and Blennerville, County Kerry. Rarities lingering in Norfolk included two Red-flanked Bluetails, two Isabelline Shrikes, an Olive-backed Pipit, a Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and a Blyth's Reed Warbler. Scilly continued to hold the Hudsonian Whimbrel, Blyth's Pipit and Red-flanked Bluetail, whilst Shetland still had a Radde's Warbler and two Dusky Warblers. Other lingerers included the Gull-billed Tern in County Kerry, Isabelline Shrike and Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, Siberian Stonechat, Olive-backed Pipit and Dusky Warbler in Yorkshire (with another of the latter still in Cornwall), Greater Yellowlegs on the Isle of Wight, White-rumped Sandpiper in Northumberland and Long-billed Dowitcher in Hampshire. There were no sightings of the Wilson's Warbler on Lewis.
-  Will Soar, RBA