Wednesday 11th October 2017
	Today's new discoveries included Black-headed Bunting on Fair Isle and Blyth's Reed Warbler on Unst (Shetland). Shetland also hosted the White-crowned Sparrow, three Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls, four Coues's Arctic Redpolls, Thrush Nightingale, Red-flanked Bluetail and Blyth's Reed Warbler. On Isles of Scilly the Isabelline Wheatear lingered on St Mary's, where a probable Wilson's Snipe was also on show, and in Ireland a Red-eyed Vireo (Co Galway) and Red-throated Pipit and Spotted Sandpiper (Co Cork) were logged. Elsewhere lingering rarities comprised Richardson's Cackling Goose (Northumberland), Wilson's Phalarope (Kent), Olive-backed Pipit and Arctic Warbler (East Yorkshire) and Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset). Scarcity highlights included Marsh Warbler (Shetland), Hoopoe (Cornwall), Barred Warbler (Northumberland), Spotted Crake and American Golden Plover (Isles of Scilly), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Orkney), two each of Bluethroat, Parrot Crossbill, Red-backed Shrikes, Rose-coloured Starling, Lesser Snow Goose and three Red-necked Phalaropes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA