Thursday 1st October 2020
	Shetland delivered two Pallas's Grasshopper Warblers (on Unst and Foula), a Lanceoloated Warbler (Foula), two White's Thrushes (Quendale and Fair Isle), two Radde's Warblers (Foula and Whalsay), two Blyth's Reed Warblers (Mainland) and new arrivals of both Hornemann's and Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Foula and Unst respectively). Another White's Thrush was trapped and ringed on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, where a Red-throated Pipit was also found. A new Rustic Bunting was on Fair Isle with the continuing bird. Lesser Yellowlegs were fresh in at Chew Valley Lake in Somerset and mobile at sites in North Yorkshire. The Tennessee Warbler showed again on Yell in Shetland, while the Siberian Thrush in Fife and Two-barred Greenish Warbler in Northumberland also gave themselves up. Other rarity updates today involved the Booted Warbler in Western Isles, Arctic Warbler in Co.Wexford, Blyth's Reed Warbler in Norfolk, Wilson's Phalarope in Lancashire, Citrine Wagtail and Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on Fair Isle, Kentish Plover in Sussex, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Co.Wexford, Long-billed Dowitchers in Dorset and Co.Wexford. The pick of the rest of the day's news included Bluethroat (Shetland), five Red-breasted Flycatchers, Hoopoe (West Yorkshire), two Rose-coloured Starlings, Little Bunting (Shetland), nine Common Rosefinches, six Wrynecks, four Red-backed Shrikes, six Barred Warblers, two American Golden Plovers, 10 Pectoral Sandpipers, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, three Dotterel, two Spotted Crakes, two Surf Scoters, Ring-necked Duck (Lancashire), two Glossy Ibises, three Honey Buzzards, Sabine's Gull (Gwynedd) and two Parrot Crossbills (Aberdeenshire).
-  David Campbell, RBA