Tuesday 31st October 2017
	The best birding today was on the Isles of Scilly where Radde's Warbler, Olive-backed Pipit, Pallas's Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Bunting and the lingering Wilson's Snipe were all noted on St Mary's, an Eastern Stonechat species arrived on St Agnes and a Surf Scoter remained off Tresco. Rarities elsewhere comprised an Olive-backed Pipit new in Cornwall at Mousehole, the Rock Thrush still in Gwent, Steppe Grey Shrike and three Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on the Shetland Isles, Pacific Golden Plover still in County Wexford, Lesser Scaup in Hampshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitchers in Kent, Lincolnshire and Merseyside, and White-rumped Sandpipers in Cornwall, East Yorkshire and County Londonderry (2). Further scarcities included Pallas's Warbler (Norfolk), Red-breasted Flycatcher and Rose-coloured Starling (both Cornwall), Hoopoe (Pembrokeshire), Pectoral Sandpiper (West Sussex), Glossy Ibis (Isle of Wight), two each of both Surf Scoter and Ring-necked Duck, three of Richard's Pipit and Snow Goose and a total of four American Golden Plovers.
-  Chris Batty, RBA