Tuesday 15th October 2019
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a male Siberian Rubythroat on Fetlar with other birds on the Shetland Isles including on Fair Isle Lanceolated, Pallas's and Marsh Warbler, Pechora Pipit and Red-flanked Bluetail, on Whalsay a Red-breasted Flycatcher, and around Mainland Northern Brown Shrike, Eastern Stonechat, Subalpine Warbler, Little Bunting, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Barred Warbler and three Olive-backed Pipits. On the Isles of Scilly the Rose-breasted Grosbeak remained on St Martin's, Subalpine Warbler and Wryneck were on St Agnes, Red-breasted Flycatcher and Dotterel on Tresco, and on St Mary's Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Blue Rock Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-winged Teal, White-rumped Sandpiper, Short-toed Lark, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Red-backed Shrike and Spotted Crake. Elsewhere, Nearctic birds included Myrtle Warbler and a Laughing Gull were discovered on North Uist, Western Isles whilst the Myrtle Warbler remained in County Galway, as did the Common Nighthawk in County Antrim, Red-eyed Vireos in County Cork, County Galway and East Yorkshire, American Black Tern in Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Leicestershire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Argyll, County Louth, Devon and West Yorkshire, White-rumped Sandpipers in Cornwall, County Kerry, Dorset, Leicestershire and the Western Isles (7), and in London the Hooded Merganser reappeared. Meanwhile rarities from Eurasia included in East Yorkshire an Arctic Warbler at Kilnsea, Radde's Warbler at Flamborough Head and Red-flanked Bluetail at Filey, a brief Bonelli's Warbler in Dumfries and Galloway at Auchie Glen, a brief Red-throated Pipit in Surrey at Hascombe, a Ferruginous Duck in Powys at Llynheilyn, and on the Orkney Isles the Eastern Stonechat remained and a dead Brown Shrike was discovered on North Ronaldsay.
-  Chris Batty, RBA