Tuesday 11th October 2016
	The bird of the day was a Pine Bunting on Fair Isle, where a Red-throated Pipit also remained. Elsewhere on the Shetland Isles the Black-faced Bunting remained on Whalsay, with archipelago totals of Red-flanked Bluetail, Pechora Pipit, Arctic Redpoll, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Rose-coloured Starling, Ortolan Bunting, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Short-toed Lark, Richard's Pipit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, two Olive-backed Pipits, two Bluethroats and eight Little Buntings, but the Siberian Accentor could not be found at Scousburgh, Mainland. On the Isles of Scilly the Sora remained, along with Subalpine Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Short-toed Lark, two each of Cattle Egret, Dotterel and Wryneck, and five Red-breasted Flycatchers. Other eastern rarities comprised Red-flanked Bluetails in both East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Siberian Stonechat new in County Cork at Barrys Head, Radde's Warblers in Norfolk and County Waterford, two Dusky Warblers in Norfolk, Olive-backed Pipits in East Yorkshire and Norfolk, a Red-throated Pipit briefly in Lancashire, and an Arctic Warbler in Norfolk at Wells Woods. The best of the rest were the Western Purple Swamphen still in Lincolnshire, Dalmatian Pelican and Hudsonian Whimbrel still in Cornwall, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Wexford, Baird's Sandpipers in both County Galway and Northumberland, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, and single Long-billed Dowitchers in Kent and Lincolnshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA