Thursday 8th October 2020
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of a Black-and-white Warbler on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. The archipelago also hosted Swainson's Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Spotted Crake, Serin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Little Bunting, Common Rosefinch and American Golden Plover. Back on the Mainland a Common Nighthawk was discovered at Church Norton (West Sussex), whilst a Pallid Swift at Southwold (Suffolk), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Dumfries & Galloway), Red-throated Pipit and Blyth's Reed Warbler (Fife), Cackling Goose (Aberdeenshire), Lesser Yellowlegs (Lincolnshire), Arctic Warbler (Northumberland) and Red-eyed Vireo (Cornwall) were all new. On Orkney the Eyebrowed Thrush and Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler both remained on North Ronaldsay, whilst a Red-flanked Bluetail was still on Mainland. A White's Thrush was on Barra (Western Isles). New discoveries on Shetland included four Olive-backed Pipits, Eastern Stonechat and Blyth's Reed Warbler, whilst Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and two Eastern Stonechats lingered. In Ireland a Blackpoll Warbler on Mizen Head and the overnight trapping of a Least Sandpiper at Timoleague (Co Cork) were the highlights. Other lingering rarities included Lammergeier (Lincolnshire), Pallid Harrier (Warwickshire/Staffordshire), Radde's Warblers (Cambridgeshire, Cleveland, Highland, Kent and Suffolk), Kentish Plover (Somerset), Long-billed Dowitcher (Cumbria), Arctic Warbler (Fife), King Eider (Moray) and Blyth's Reed Warbler (Norfolk).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA