Saturday 22nd October 2022
	Incredible seawatching in Cornwall today where a Band-rumped Petrel species, Barolo Shearwater, and 3,000 Great Shearwaters passed The Lizard, a Band-rumped Petrel species and 800 Great Shearwaters off Porthgwarra, and 2,500 Great Shearwaters in Falmouth Bay. Other discoveries included a Black-winged Pratincole in Cheshire at Ince Marsh, Ross's Goose in Forth at Kinbuck, at least one Pallid Swift in County Louth at Cooley Point, Radde's Warblers in County Antrim on Rathlin Island, Northumberland on Holy Island, and East Sussex at Beachy Head, Arctic Warbler in County Donegal on Tory Island, Red-throated Pipit on the Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, Olive-backed Pipits in County Clare at Loop Head and Fife at Balcomie, Eastern Stonechat species in Fife at Crail, Subalpine Warbler species in Northumberland at Tynemouth, and on North Ronaldsay, Lesser Yellowlegs in Merseyside at Marshside, Bonaparte's Gull in County Kerry at Lough Leane, White-rumped Sandpipers in Gwent at Goldcliff and County Wexford at Carne, and Red-rumped Swallows in East Yorkshire at Bempton (3) and North Yorkshire at Hunmanby Gap. On the Isles of Scilly the Blackburnian Warbler remained on Bryher, Wilson's Snipe, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Pallid Swift, and Red-throated Pipit on St Mary's, Olive-backed Pipit on Tresco, and Short-toed Lark and Wryneck on St Agnes. On the Shetland Isles Desert Wheatear, Red-flanked Bluetail, Eastern Stonechat species, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Barred Warbler, Great Grey Shrike, two Ring-necked Ducks, and two Waxwings all on Mainland, Red-throated Pipit, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, and Black-bellied Dipper on Fair Isle, Red-flanked Bluetail on Yell, and American Golden Plover on Out Skerries. Elsewhere lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Myrtle Warbler in County Clare, both Red-eyed Vireo and Rustic Bunting in County Cork, Collared Pratincole in Gloucestershire, Whiskered Tern in Angus, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Red-flanked Bluetails in Fife, Lothian, Northumberland, East Yorkshire (2), and North Yorkshire, Radde's Warblers in Angus, County Cork, East Sussex, Northumberland, Dusky Warblers in Somerset, Suffolk, and East Yorkshire, Olive-backed Pipit in East Yorkshire, Blyth's Reed Warbler in County Donegal, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cheshire, Conwy, and Norfolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cleveland and Cornwall, White-rumped Sandpiper in County Wexford, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, and and Marbled Duck in Lincolnshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA