Sunday 13th September 2020
	New discoveries today included a Semipalmated Sandpiper at Rosscarbery, County Cork, a Lesser Yellowlegs on the Bann Estuary, County Derry, a Baird's Sandpiper on Baleshare, Western Isles, a Tawny Pipit at Porthgwarra, Cornwall and a Greenish Warbler at Mizen Head, County Cork. Lingering rarities included the Franklin's Gull in Yorkshire, Semipalmated Sandpipers in Cornwall, Argyll and Western Isles, Spotted Sandpiper in Scilly, Baird's Sandpipers in Cornwall and Orkney, Long-billed Dowitcher in Cumbria, Citrine Wagtail in Shetland, two Blue-winged Teals in Western Isles, Black Duck in Highland, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Pallid Harrier in West Sussex, Black Kite in Cornwall and Lammergeier in Derbyshire. Scarcity highlights included a Woodchat Shrike, a Red-backed Shrike, an Ortolan Bunting, two Melodious Warblers, two Icterine Warblers, two Rose-coloured Starlings, three Wrynecks, three Barred Warblers, 154 Lapland Buntings, a Cory's Shearwater, two Pomarine Skuas, three Sabine's Gulls, six Leach's Petrels, nine Roseate Terns, a Spotted Crake, four Honey Buzzards, a Temminck's Stint, two Grey Phalaropes, two American Golden Plovers, two Dotterel, 14 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 21 Pectoral Sandpipers, a Purple Heron, eight Glossy Ibises, a Ring-necked Duck and a Ring-billed Gull.
-  Will Soar, RBA