Monday 31st October 2022
	The influx of Pallid Swifts continued with 23 identified today comprising four in both Lothian and Northumberland, three together in Gloucestershire, two each in Cleveland, East Yorkshire, Fife, Moray, and Wirral, and singles in Lancashire and North Yorkshire. Other discoveries today included a Radde's Warbler in Dorset at Portland Bill, Olive-backed Pipits in Hertfordshire at Hatfield and on the Western Isles on Barra (2), a Black-winged Stilt in Kent at Dungeness, and on the Shetland Isles an Eastern Stonechat species at Spiggie, and a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll in Lerwick. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were Alpine Accentor, Desert Wheatear, Pallid Harrier, and Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Double-crested Cormorant in County Leitrim, Collared Pratincole in Gloucestershire, Red-throated Pipit and Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly, Subalpine Warbler species and Eastern Stonechat species in Northumberland, Blue-winged Teal in Lincolnshire, Kentish Plover in Somerset, King Eider in Lothian, Richardson's Cackling Goose in County Sligo, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cleveland and Merseyside, and Lesser Scaup and Ferruginous Duck County Donegal.
-  Chris Batty, RBA