Sunday 23rd October 2022
	Rarities discovered today included White's Thrush and Eastern Black Redstart on the Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, Pallid Swifts in Kent at Birchington and Lancashire at Pilling Lane (2), Pallid Harriers in County Cork at Three Castles Head and Pembrokeshire at St David's Head, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Kerry at Black Rock Strand, Red-throated Pipit in Cornwall at Park Head, Radde's Warbler in Northumberland on Holy Island, Dusky Warbler in Suffolk at Benacre, and a Blyth's Reed Warbler in Highland at Durness. On the Isles of Scilly the Blackburnian Warbler remained on Bryher, Wilson's Snipe, Pallid Swift, Red-throated Pipit, Radde's Warbler, and Richard's Pipit on St Mary's, Pallid Swift and Pallas's Warbler on Tresco, Short-toed Lark and Wryneck on St Agnes. On the Shetland Isles Desert Wheatear, Blyth's Reed Warbler, White-billed Diver, and Great Grey Shrike on Mainland, and a White-billed Diver on Yell. Elsewhere lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Collared Pratincole in Gloucestershire, Whiskered Tern in Angus, Radde's Warblers in Angus, County Cork, Northumberland, and East Sussex, Dusky Warblers in both Somerset and Suffolk, Subalpine Warbler species in Northumberland, Arctic Warbler and Blyth's Reed Warbler together in County Donegal, Eastern Stonechat species in Fife, Long-billed Dowitcher in Conwy Norfolk, White-rumped Sandpiper in Gwent, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cleveland, Cornwall (2), and Merseyside, and Marbled Duck in Lincolnshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA