Sunday 5th September 2021
	An incredible minimum of 73 Wilson's Petrels were seen from the pelagic out of Baltimore in Co.Cork today. In Co.Galway, a Booted Warbler was found at Galley Head. Two Greenish Warblers filtered west, turning up at Polgigga in Cornwall and Cape Clear in Co.Cork. Other finds included a Ferruginous Duck in the Gloucestershire section of the Cotswold Water Park, Red-rumped Swallow over Littlehampton in Sussex and Blyth's Reed Warblers on Bardsey in Gwynedd and Blakeney Point in Norfolk. The White-tailed Lapwing and Black-browed Albatross in East Yorkshire, Western Bonelli's Warbler on Scilly, Black Stork in Lincolnshire and Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and Co.Down all remained. Other highlights included two Spotted Crakes, Pectoral Sandpiper (Co.Cork), five Dotterel, American Golden Plover (Shetland), Grey Phalarope (Co.Cork), seven Glossy Ibises, 47 Wrynecks, White-winged Black Tern (Hampshire), three Red-backed Shrikes, Red-breasted Flycatcher (Scilly), six Barred Warblers, 13 Common Rosefinches and three Ortolan Buntings.
-  David Campbell, RBA