Friday 8th November 2019
	Orkney continued to be the place to be - following a Siberian Rubythroat and the relocated Steller's Eider earlier in the week, today brought the discovery of a Blue Rock Thrush on Lamb Holm. The Steller's Eider remained on Westray until it relocated to Papa Westray later in the day. New discoveries included Pallid Swift in Norfolk, Citrine Wagtail in Pembrokeshore, Olive-backed Pipits in Lincolnshire and Northumberland, Dusky Warbler in East Yorkshire and White-rumped Sandpipers in Western Isles and Co Wexford. The Paddyfield and American Buff-bellied Pipits (Cornwall), Hume's Warblers (East Yorkshire), Snowy Owl (Shetland), Lesser Scaup (Cornwall, Co Mayo and Somerset), Long-billed Dowitchers (Argyll and Northumberland), Blue-winged Teal (Devon), Baird's Sandpiper (Co Kerry) and nine White-rumped Sandpipers all lingered. The best of the rest included Little Bunting and Wryneck (Dorset), Bluethroat and Pallas's Warbler (East Yorkshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Highland), Barred Warbler (Cleveland) and Hoopoe (Co Wexford).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA