Monday 24th October 2016
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of a Siberian Accentor on Mainland Orkney, the ninth for Britain. Elsewhere new discoveries included Pallid Swift, two Olive-backed Pipits and two Dusky Warblers on Isles of Scilly, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and four Coues's Arctic Redpoll on Shetland, Radde's Warbler and two Dusky Warblers in Norfolk and Dusky Warbler in East Yorkshire. Lingering rarities comprised Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Siberian Stonechat in East Yorkshire, Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitchers in Co Louth and Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Western Purple Swamphen in Lincolnshire, Baird's Sandpiper in Northumberland, Isabelline Wheatear, Desert Wheatear and two Dusky Warblers in Norfolk, Northern Harrier on Orkney, Black-faced Bunting, Siberian Accentor, Pied Wheatear, Pine Bunting and Siberian Stonechat on Shetland and Black-bellied Dipper in Suffolk.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA