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Sunday 30th October 2016  
  New discoveries today included a Pine Bunting and Dusky Warbler at Baltasound, Unst, Shetland, an American Buff-bellied Pipit at Dunmoran Strand, County Sligo, a Pied Wheatear at Donmouth, Aberdeenshire, an Isabelline Shrike on Portland, Dorset, a Red-flanked Bluetail at St Abb's Head, Borders, a Siberian Stonechat at Quendale, Shetland, a Rustic Bunting on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, another Dusky Warbler at Land's End, Cornwall and single Fea's or Zino's Petrels past North Ronaldsay, Orkney and Unst, Shetland.

Lingering rarity highlights included the Siberian Accentor in Northumberland, single Isabelline Wheatears in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, Pied Wheatear and Eastern Black Redstart in Cleveland, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Franklin's Gull and Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall, Northern Harrier in Orkney, Western Purple Swamphen in Lincolnshire, Daurian Shrike in County Durham, probable Stejneger's Stonechat and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Shetland, single Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Glamorgan and Yorkshire, single Dusky Warblers in London, Norfolk, Dorset and Cornwall, Radde's Warbler in County Cork, two Olive-backed Pipits in the Isles of Scilly, single Long-billed Dowitchers in Lincolnshire and County Wexford, single Lesser Yellowlegs' in Somerset and Dorset and Black-bellied Dipper in Suffolk.
-  Will Soar, RBA