Monday 20th August 2018
	Once again the Isles of Scilly dominated the headlines with a Spotted Sandpiper identified on St Mary's where the Citrine Wagtail was still present, the Solitary Sandpiper remained on Tresco and a pelagic produced Wilson's Petrel, two Cory's Shearwaters, at least 500 Great Shearwaters and four Sabine's Gulls. Rarities elsewhere comprised an Aquatic Warbler reported in Hampshire at Farlington Marshes, Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Suffolk and White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Sligo and on the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike (Dorset), Barred Warbler (Shetland Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Cork), migrant Red-necked Phalarope (Leicestershire), inland Sabine's Gull (Glamorgan), two each of Melodious Warbler (East Sussex and Isle of Man), Rose-coloured Starling, Glossy Ibis and migrant Dotterel (Norfolk), three Cattle Egrets and four Spotted Crakes.
-  Chris Batty, RBA