Wednesday 26th September 2018
	New discoveries included at least one Tawny Pipit on Isles of Scilly and Red-rumped Swallow in Dorset, whilst Hooded Merganser (Co Galway), Snowy Owl (Western Isles), Ferruginous Duck (Suffolk), White-throated Sparrow (Shetland), Pallid Harriers (Norfolk and Hertfordshire), King Eider (Moray), American White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset) all lingered. The best of the rest included Woodchat Shrike (Lothian), Icterine Warbler (Co Cork), Temminck's Stint (Hampshire), two Ortolan Buntings, Spotted Crakes, Wrynecks, Barred Warblers and Golden Orioles, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Rose-coloured Starlings, American Golden Plovers and Red-backed Shrikes, four Yellow-browed Warblers, nine Common Rosefinches and 12 Pectoral Sandpipers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA