Monday 20th September 2021
	New waders today included Baird's Sandpiper at Tacumshin in Co.Wexford, Semipalmated Sandpiper at Gunwalloe Cove in Cornwall and Long-billed Dowitcher at Lough Beg in Co.Derry. Shetland delivered Rustic Bunting and Blyth's Reed Warbler on Foula, as well as a new King Eider off East Burra. Making up the day's continuing rarities were the White-tailed Lapwing in East Yorkshire, Squacco Heron in Flintshire, Forster's Tern in Co.Louth, Baird's Sandpiper in Co.Kerry, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk and Co.Wexford, Bonaparte's Gulls in Co.Down and Kent, and Greenish Warbler and King Eider in Shetland. The best of the rest included two Ring-necked Ducks, two American Golden Plovers, three Dotterel, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 34 Pectoral Sandpipers, five Sabine's Gulls, two White-winged Black Terns, six Glossy Ibises, Purple Heron (Oxfordshire), Hoopoe (Glamorgan), nine Wrynecks, two Red-backed Shrikes, Woodchat Shrike (Fair Isle), Melodious Warbler (Scilly), Icterine Warbler (Co.Cork), four Rose-coloured Starlings, two Bluethroats, three Red-breasted Flycatchers, four Common Rosefinches and two Ortolan Buntings.
-  David Campbell, RBA