Wednesday 11th September 2019
	The highlight of the day was a Common Nighthawk seen briefly in Argyll at Loch Laich; the second Nearctic landbird of the autumn to be located in Britain following the Cliff Swallow on the Isle of Skye, Highland on 27th August. Otherwise. Nearctic waders dominated with a Spotted Sandpiper new in County Kerry at Barrow Harbour, Hudsonian Whimbrel still on the Western Isles, a Long-billed Dowitcher on the Western Isles on Lewis with an unidentified dowitcher in Dorset at Lodmoor, Wilson's Phalarope still in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Pembrokeshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper on the Western Isles and in both County Kerry and County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpiper in both East Yorkshire and the Western Isles, two Pectoral Sandpipers, and three each of both Buff-breasted Sandpiper and American Golden Plover. Rarities elsewhere comprised both the Snowy Owl and Subalpine Warbler species still on the Western Isles, a Citrine Wagtail briefly in Norfolk at Cley and a Black-winged Stilt new in Berkshire at Moor Green Lakes. Scarcities included Bluethroat (Hampshire), Icterine Warbler (Shetland Isles), Red-necked Phalarope (West Sussex), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), Dotterel and Shorelark (Western Isles), Ring-billed Gull (County Kerry), Long-tailed Skua (County Down), two each of Barred Warbler, Common Rosefinch and Sabine's Gull, three Wrynecks, four Red-backed Shrikes and 27 Lapland Buntings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA