Monday 16th September 2019
	The day's finds included a Blue-winged Teal at Tacumshin in Co.Wexford, Semipalmated Sandpipers at Rossbeigh in Co.Kerry and on South Uist in Western Isles, and White-rumped Sandpipers on Lewis in Western Isles and at Esha Ness in Shetland. Still with us were the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Hampshire, Isabelline Wheatear in Gwynedd, Eastern Black-eared Wheatear in Lancashire, Western Bonelli's Warbler in Western Isles, Semipalmated Sandpipers in Co.Wexford and Co.Kerry, Lesser Yellowlegs in Pembrokeshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Dorset and West Yorkshire and Black-winged Stilt in Berkshire. Supporting the proceedings were two Buff-breasted Sandpipers, seven American Golden Plovers, two Dotterel (Sussex and Scilly), Red-necked Phalarope (Sussex), two Grey Phalaropes, six Pectoral Sandpipers, Ring-necked Duck (Perth & Kinross), four Barred Warblers, Bluethroat (Shetland), Ortolan Bunting (Conwy), 13 Wrynecks, two Red-backed Shrikes, Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), three Spotted Crakes, Glossy Ibis (Devon), Cory's Shearwater (North Yorkshire), four Leach's Petrels, four Sabine's Gulls, three Long-tailed Skuas, 10 Pomarine Skuas, three Balearic Shearwaters, four Iceland Gulls and eight Lapland Buntings.
-  David Campbell, RBA