Monday 7th November 2022
	Discoveries today included a Hume's Warbler on the Shetland Isles on Mainland at Grutness, a Pallid Swift in Aberdeenshire at St Cyrus, and in County Galway the Forster's Tern returned to Kinvarra for another winter. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Wilson's Snipe and Dusky Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Isabelline Wheatear in Gwynedd, Pied Wheatear and Black Scoter in Northumberland, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, two Olive-backed Pipits on Shetland, two Red-rumped Swallows together in Kent, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on the Orkney Isles, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, and White-rumped Sandpper on the Western Isles. Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler (Fife), Common Rosefinch (Dorset), Wryneck (East Sussex), Pectoral Sandpiper (Nottinghamshire), Kumlien's Gull (Cornwall), two each of American Wigeon, Sabine's Gull, and Glossy Ibis, three of Long-tailed Skua, Ring-necked Duck, Green-winged Teal, and Lapland Bunting, eight Shorelarks, 24 Waxwings, and a total of 490 Great Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA