Tuesday 25th October 2016
	Once again, eastern vagrants dominated with a Siberian Accentor in Northumberland on Holy Island, as well as further lingering birds on the both the Orkney Isles and Shetland Isles, Pine Buntings in East Yorkshire at Kilnsea and on the Shetland Isles (2), an Eastern Black Redstart in East Yorkshire at Easington, Isabelline Wheatear and Desert Wheatear still together in Norfolk, Red-flanked Bluetails in Dorset and East Yorkshire (2), two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers (both in East Yorkshire), two Siberian Stonechats, four Olive-backed Pipits (all on the Isles of Scilly), and a total of eight Dusky Warblers. Otherwise, Pallid Swifts were identified in Devon and the Isles of Scilly, the Black Scoter returned to County Kerry, Western Purple Swamphen and Long-billed Dowitcher remained in Lincolnshire, as did Baird's Sandpiper in Northumberland, a Lesser Yellowlegs was in Somerset, a Black Kite briefly in Cornwall, Ferruginous Duck in Hertfordshire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll on the Shetland Isles, Black-bellied Dipper in Suffolk, and both Long-billed Dowitcher and Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Wexford.
-  Chris Batty, RBA