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Thursday 1st November 2018  
  Rarity highlights included Blyth's Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit and at least two Dusky Warblers on Isles of Scilly, Eastern Stonechat and King Eider in Norfolk, Snowy Owl in Orkney, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset and Highland, Lesser Scaup in Anglesey and a Dusky Warbler and two probably Pallid Swifts in Essex.

The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Conwy), Pectoral Sandpiper (Devon), Temminck's Stint (Cornwall) Red-breasted Flycatcher (Fife), Pallas's Warbler (East Yorkshire), and two Hoopoes, Richard's Pipits and Barred Warblers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA