Sunday 8th September 2019
	A Collared Flycatcher was trapped and ringed on the Isle of May in Fife, while a Wilson's Phalarope arrived at Tacumshin in Co.Wexford and an influx of Pink-feet carried a Red-breasted Goose to Marshside in Merseyside. Extending their stays were the Semipalmated Sandpiper in Co.Wexford, White-rumped Sandpiper in East Yorkshire and the Pied or Eastern Black-eared Wheatear in Lancashire. The day's scarcities included three American Golden Plovers (Kent, Shetland and Co.Kerry), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Cornwall), Red-necked Phalarope (Suffolk), two Pectoral Sandpipers (Clyde and Co.Wexford), Richard's Pipit (Pembrokeshire), Little Bunting (Shetland), Ortolan Bunting (Dorset), White-spotted Bluethroat (Hampshire), five Red-backed Shrikes, Woodchat Shrike (Co.Cork), five Common Rosefinches, Icterine Warbler (Northumberland), Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), six Barred Warblers, Marsh Warbler (East Yorkshire), 21 Lapland Buntings, Hoopoe (Essex), seven Wrynecks, Sabine's Gull (Suffolk), Shorelark (Orkney), Montagu's Harrier (Lancashire), Glossy Ibis (Gwent), five Honey Buzzards, three Long-tailed Skuas and 12 Pomarine Skuas.
-  David Campbell, RBA