Wednesday 3rd November 2021
	Discoveries today included Hume's Warbler and Radde's Warbler together in Kent at South Foreland, Radde's Warbler in Cornwall at Polgigga, Dusky Warbler in Lancashire at Middleton, Bonaparte's Gull in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, and in Argyll on Islay a Lesser Scaup accompanied both a Ring-necked Duck and an American Wigeon on Loch Skerrols. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present comprised the White-tailed Lapwing in East Yorkshire, American Buff-bellied Pipit in Cornwall, both Western Subalpine Warbler and Arctic Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Wilson's Phalarope and Bonaparte's Gull in Northumberland, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on the Shetland Isles, and King Eider in Moray. The dark morph Gyr remained in Glamorgan but was seen to be a ringed escape. Significant late news concerned a Blyth's Pipit present yesterday on North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles.
-  Chris Batty, RBA