Friday 4th September 2020
	Rarities today included a Fea's/Desertas Petrel passing Fanad Head, County Donegal, the Lammergeier still in Derbyshire, Pallid Harrier on the Isle of Wight, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cornwall, both Wilson's Phalarope and Baird's Sandpiper on the Orkney Isles, Spotted Sandpiper on the Isles of Scilly, Bonaparte's Gulls in both County Cork and Kent, Black Duck still in Highland, and a King Eider again in Highland. Meanwhile, on the Shetland Isles Two-barred Crossbill, Snowy Owl, Arctic Warbler and three Citrine Wagtails were located around Mainland, two Arctic Warblers, Citrine Wagtail and Common Rosefinch on Fair Isle, Greenish Warbler, Barred Warbler and Lapland Bunting on Unst, American Golden Plover on Yell, and on Out Skerries a Common Rosefinch. Elsewhere, scarcities included Ortolan Bunting (Dorset), Hoopoe (Surrey), Barred Warbler and Corncrake (East Yorkshire), two each of White-winged Black Tern, Purple Heron and Spotted Crake, three of Red-backed Shrike and Dotterel, four of Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper and Long-tailed Skua, six Glossy Ibises, nine Sabine's Gulls, 11 each of Wryneck and Lapland Bunting, and a total of 38 Great Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA