Saturday 5th October 2019
	Today's headline new discoveries comprised a Bonelli's warbler species on Shetland, Red-flanked Bluetail on Orkney, Dusky Warblers in Cleveland and Norfolk, Kentish Plover in Merseyside, Lesser Yellowlegs in Co Waterford and Long-billed Dowitcher in Argyll. Isles of Scilly continued to host the Blue Rock Thrush, as well as Ortolan Bunting, Red-backed Shrike, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Short-toed Lark, Spotted Crake and Wryneck, whilst the Shetland Isles produced lingering Semipalmated Sandpiper, Eastern Stonechat species, Coues's Arctic Redpoll, Bee-eater, Bluethroat, Barred Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Short-toed Lark, Waxwings and Lapland Buntings. Elsewhere, lingering rarities included Snowy Owl (Western Isles), Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll (Orkney), Pacific Golden Plover and Greenish Warbler (Northumberland), Red-flanked Bluetail (Fife), Long-billed Dowitcher (Devon), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Co Wexford) and Black-winged Stilt (Berkshire). The best of the rest included Pallas's Warbler (Suffolk), Rose-coloured Starling (Western Isles), Common Rosefinch (Fife), Great Grey Shrike (Northumberland), Little Bunting (Orkney), Hoopoe (Northumberland), Lesser Snow Goose (Perth & Kinross), two Pectoral Sandpipers, Spotted Crakes, Black Brants, Glossy Ibises and Shorelarks, three Barred Warblers, Wrynecks and Ring-necked Ducks, four American Golden Plovers and Richard's Pipits and five Red-breasted Flycatchers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA