Friday 14th September 2018
	New discoveries today included another Arctic Warbler on Fair Isle and a Baird's Sandpiper at Baltasound, both Shetland, and anther Baird's Sandpiper on Bryher and a Citrine Wagtail at Porth Hellick, both Scilly. Lingering rarities included the American White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Red-footed Falcon in Lincolnshire, single Pallid Harriers in Devon and Cheshire, two Baird's Sandpipers in Pembrokeshire and another in Scilly. Scarcity highlights included an Icterine Warbler, a Hoopoe, a Rose-coloured Starling, two Richard's Pipits, two Red-backed Shrikes, four Barred Warblers, four Yellow-browed Warblers, four Wrynecks, five Common Rosefinches, eight Ortolan Buntings, three Spotted Crakes, a Ring-billed Gull, a Honey Buzzard, a Glossy Ibis, a White Stork, three American Golden Plovers, four Buff-breasted Sandpipers, nine Pectoral Sandpipers, two Grey Phalaropes, two Sabine's Gulls, two Long-tailed Skuas, nine Pomarine Skuas, 12 Great Shearwaters and 75 Leach's Petrels.
-  Will Soar, RBA