Friday 2nd November 2018
	The hottest news today related to a Tengmalm's Owl on Orkney - unfortunately the location of the bird is currently being suppressed. Elsewhere new discoveries included a Isabelline Shrike sp in East Sussex, Rustic Bunting in East Yorkshire, two White-billed Divers in Shetland and a Penduline Tit in Suffolk. The Blyth's Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit and at least three Dusky Warblers (Isles of Scilly), King Eider, Eastern Stonechat and at least one Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Norfolk), Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), Pied Wheatear (Shetland), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset and Highland), Baird's Sandpiper (Gwent), Dusky Warbler (Essex), two White-rumped Sandpipers (Co Wexford), Spotted Sandpiper (Co Durham) and Lesser Scaup (Anglesey) all lingered. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Conwy), Pallas's Warbler and White-tailed Eagle (East Yorkshire), two Richard's Pipits and Barred Warblers and four Little Buntings.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA