Wednesday 5th October 2022
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Myrtle Warbler on the Shetland Isles at Ellister with elsewhere on Mainland Pechora Pipit, Eastern Stonechat species, Bluethroat, King Eider, the probable Homeyer's Great Grey Shrike, two Olive-backed Pipits, and a total of six Hornemann's Actic Redpolls. Around the islands were Blyth's Reed Warbler, Ortolan Bunting. Bluethroat, and six Glossy Ibises on Unst, Olive-backed Pipit on Out Skerries, American Golden Plover and Bluethroat on Fair Isle, and on Fetlar American Golden Plover, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, and Pectoral Sanpdiper. On the Isles of Scilly the Greenish Warbler remains on St Agnes, Little Bunting on St Martin's, Wryneck on St Mary's, and seawatching produced 26 Cory's Shearwaters and 62 Great Shearwaters. Discoveries elsewhere included a Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset at Lodmoor, a Baird's Sandpiper in County Wexford at Tacumshin, an Eastern Stonechat species in County Durham at Blackhall Rocks, and in County Clare two Barolo Shearwaters flew past the Bridges of Ross. Lingering rarities included the Pallid Harrier in Dumfries and Galloway, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Mayo, Red-footed Falcon in Kent, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Blue-winged Teal in London, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cleveland, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, and two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls together on the Orkney Isles.
-  Chris Batty, RBA