Monday 1st October 2018
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a River Warbler on Unst. Other notable birds on the Shetland Isles today comprised an American Buff-bellied Pipit new in on Foula where both the White-crowned Sparrow and White-throated Sparrow remain, with around island totals of Melodious Warbler, Short-toed Lark, Marsh Warbler, American Golden Plover, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Lapland Bunting, Yellow-browed Warbler, Iceland Gull and two each of both Common Rosefinch and Barred Warbler. On the Isles of Scilly a Tawny Pipit remained alongside Rose-coloured Starling, Pectoral Sandpiper, Lapland Bunting, two Red-breasted Flycatchers, three Common Rosefinches and seven Yellow-browed Warblers whilst 100 Great Shearwaters were logged offshore. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Brown Shrike still in Cornwall, Olive-backed Pipit in Norfolk, American White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Pallid Harrier in Hertfordshire, Baird's Sandpiper and White-rumped Sandpiper together in County Londonderry, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in both Dorset and the Western Isles, Lesser Scaup in Somerset and Ferruginous Ducks in both Hampshire and Suffolk. Other scarcities included American Golden Plover and Common Rosefinch (Orkney Isles), Rose-coloured Starling (Lothian), Red-necked Phalarope (County Wexford), Temminck's Stint (Hampshire), American Wigeon (Lancashire), Glossy Ibis (Leicestershire), Great Shearwater (East Yorkshire), two each of Hoopoe, Red-backed Shrike, Wryneck, Yellow-browed Warbler and Surf Scoter, three of Barred Warbler and Spotted Crake, four Lapland Buntings, five Buff-breasted Sandpipers, and seven each of Pectoral Sandpiper and Long-tailed Skua.
-  Chris Batty, RBA