Thursday 4th November 2021
	A first-winter Taiga Flycatcher appeared at Flamborough Head, with photographs indicating that it could have been the bird that was found there on 16th October. In Cornwall, a juvenile Pallid Harrier was seen over The Lizard, while a Ross's Goose was among Pinkfeet at Fail in Ayrshire. Still present were the White-tailed Lapwing in East Yorkshire, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Wilson's Phalarope in Northumberland, Hume's Warbler in Kent, King Eider in Shetland; Red-breasted Goose, Richardson's Cackling Goose and Lesser Scaup in Argyll, Arctic Warbler and Spotted Sandpiper on Scilly and Bonaparte's Gull in Northumberland. Other highlights included two American Wigeon, two Green-winged Teal, six Ring-necked Ducks, four Surf Scoters, American Golden Plover (Cornwall), two Sabine's Gulls, Ring-billed Gull (Co.Louth), eight Glossy Ibises, two Rough-legged Buzzards, Red-backed Shrike (Argyll), Great Grey Shrike (Hampshire), four Shorelarks, Short-toed Lark (Norfolk), two Pallas's Warblers, two Barred Warblers, Red-breasted Flycatcher (Norfolk) and Serin (Cornwall).
-  David Campbell, RBA