Friday 23rd October 2020
	Today's new discoveries included Pallid Swift in Hampshire, Dusky Warblers in Cornwall and Kent, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Shetland and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. The Brown Shrike and Desert Wheatear (Northumberland), Red-flanked Bluetail (Western Isles), Blackpoll Warbler (Shetland), Lesser Yellowlegs (Devon, Norfolk and Somerset), Eastern Stonechats (Cleveland and Norfolk), Long-billed Dowitcher (Cumbria), Richardson's Cackling Geese (Western Isles [2] and Forth) and at least eight Dusky Warblers all lingered. The best of the rest included American Golden Plover and Shorelark (Kent), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Pembrokeshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Dorset), Barred Warbler and Hoopoe((Northumberland), Parrot Crossbill and Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), two Red-backed Shrikes, Pectoral Sandpipers and Todd's Canada Geese, five Pallas's Warblers and Ring-necked Ducks, six Richard's Pipits, eight Great Grey Shrikes and Waxwings and eleven Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA