Monday 5th October 2020
	Another incredible day for rare eastern passerines with the Siberian Thrush still in Fife, Eyebrowed Thrush still on the Orkney Isles, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler and Citrine Wagtail on the Shetland Isles, Steppe Grey Shrike in Suffolk, Eastern Yellow Wagtails in County Galway, Gwynedd and Shetland, Lesser Grey Shrike and Red-flanked Bluetail together in Northumberland, two Eastern Stonechats in Norfolk, Rustic Buntings in Aberdeenshire (2), Orkney (2) and Shetland, Red-throated Pipits on Orkney, Shetland, and in Suffolk, Olive-backed Pipits in Aberdeenshire and Shetland (3), Radde's Warblers in Cambridgeshire, Cleveland, and Suffolk (2), Dusky Warblers in Essex and Shetland (2), Arctic Warblers in Norfolk, Northumberland, and Shetland, and Blyth's Reed Warblers on both Orkney and Shetland. Other highlightd today were the first Pallid Swift of the autumn in Kent at North Foreland, Pallid Harriers new in both Norfolk and Suffolk, Blue-winged Teal in County Mayo, two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on Shetland, Kentish Plover still in West Sussex, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, King Eider in Moray, and Lesser Yellowlegs in both North Yorkshire and Somerset.
-  Chris Batty, RBA