Wednesday 8th September 2021
	Rarities today comprised White-tailed Lapwing and Arctic Warbler both still in East Yorkshire, now two Western Bonelli's Warblers on the Isles of Scilly, Forster's Tern still in County Louth, Black Stork in Lincolnshire, Baird's Sandpiper in County Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs on the Orkney Isles, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, and King Eider on the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike and Marsh Warbler (Isles of Scilly), Ortolan Bunting (County Cork), White-winged Black Tern (Hampshire), Purple Heron (Kent), Sabine's Gull (East Yorkshire), Glossy Ibis (Somerset), two each of Red-backed Shrike, Rose-coloured Starling, and Long-tailed Skua, three Melodious Warblers, five Pectoral Sandpipers, six Barred Warblers, 19 Common Rosefinches, and a total of 24 Wrynecks. A first-winter Lesser Grey Shrike at Galley Head, County Cork was seen to be bearing a colour-ring that showed it was a captive-bred that had been released in Spain.
-  Chris Batty, RBA