Thursday 20th October 2022
	An exceptional day for discoveries including a Brown Booby in County Dublin in Dublin, a Blue Rock Thrush in Norfolk at Winterton, Collared Pratincole in Gloucestershire at Slimbridge, Bonelli's Warbler species in East Yorkshire at Kilnsea, Radde's Warblers in both County Cork on Cape Clear and East Yorkshire at Buckton, Dusky Warblers in Somerset at Sand Point and Suffolk at Southwold, Red-throated Pipit in Dorset at Portland, Olive-backed Pipit in Norfolk at Titchwell, White-billed Diver on the Western Isles on Lewis, and Red-flanked Bluetails in Fife, Lothian, Northumberland, East Yorkshire (2), North Yorkshire. On the Shetland Isles a Siberian Rubythroat was new at Quendale with elsewhere on Mainland Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Olive-backed Pipit, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Barred Warbler, and two Red-flanked Bluetails, Red-flanked Bluetail on Yell, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Black-bellied Dipper on Fair Isle, and Little Bunting on Out Skerries. On the Isles of Scilly the Blackburnian Warbler remained on Bryher, two Wrynecks on St Agnes, and on St Mary's Wilson's Snipe, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Little Bunting, Sabine's Gull, two Barred Warblers, three Cory's Shearwaters, and 54 Great Shearwaters. Elsewhere, lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Myrtle Warbler in County Clare, Red-eyed Vireo in County Cork, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Black Duck in County Mayo, Whiskered Tern in Angus, Spotted Sandpiper and two Cackling Geese on the Western Isles, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, King Eider in Lothian, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, and Lesser Yellowlegs in both Cleveland and Cornwall.
-  Chris Batty, RBA