Thursday 12th September 2019
	New discoveries today included a Western Bonelli's Warbler on Barra, Western Isles, a Black-winged Stilt at Lytchett Bay, Dorset and a White-rumped Sandpiper at Lissagriffin, County Cork. Lingering rarities included the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear in Lancashire, Isabelline Wheatear in Gwynedd, Citrine Wagtail in Orkney, Wilson's Phalarope in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Pembrokeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Baird's Sandpiper in Argyll, White-rumped Sandpiper in Yorkshire and Black-winged Stilt in Berkshire. Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, a Little Bunting, a Bluethroat, a Wryneck, a Woodchat Shrike, two Red-backed Shrikes, three Barred Warblers, 29 Lapland Buntings, a Spotted Crake, a Honey Buzzard, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Grey Phalarope, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, thee Pectoral Sandpipers, four American Golden Plovers, a Glossy Ibis, a Ring-billed Gull, an Iceland Gull, a Great Shearwater, a Long-tailed Skua, a Pomarine Skua, eight Leach's Petrels and 23 Roseate Terns.
-  Will Soar, RBA