Tuesday 6th October 2020
	The highlight of the day was a Short-toed Eagle in Dorset at Hengistbury Head although it was picked up there and taken into care. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Warbler reappeared on the Shetland Isles on Yell with another Tennessee Warbler discovered in County Galway on Inishbofin constituting the first Irish record. Rarities from the east comprised the Eyebrowed Thrush still on the Orkney Isles, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler still on the Shetland, Steppe Grey Shrike in Suffolk, Red-flanked Bluetail on Shetland, Eastern Yellow Wagtails in County Galway (2), Gwynedd and Hampshire, Citrine Wagtail in Aberdeenshire, Red-throated Pipits on Orkney (2), Shetland (2) and in Suffolk, Radde's Warblers in Cambridgeshire, Cleveland, Fife, Highland, Norfolk, and Suffolk (2), Arctic Warblers in Fife, Northumberland and Shetland, Blyth's Reed Warblers on Norfolk and Shetland, Rustic Buntings in Aberdeenshire, Orkney (3) and Shetland, Eastern Stonechats in East Yorkshire, Norfolk, and Shetland, and a total of four Olive-backed Pipits were located on Shetland. From elsewhere a Little Bittern was glimpsed on the Isles of Scilly, a Snowy Owl and two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on Shetland, Kentish Plover still in West Sussex, King Eider in Moray, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cumbria, County Londonderry, and County Wexford, and Lesser Yellowlegs in County Galway, North Yorkshire, and Somerset.
-  Chris Batty, RBA