Friday 18th August 2023
	In Scotland, the roaming Brown Booby was seen again, heading north past Tarbat Ness, Highland. Booted Warblers were at Landguard, Suffolk and Blakeney Point, Norfolk, a Blyth's Reed Warbler was on Fair Isle, Shetland, a Kentish Plover was at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire and a Wilson's Petrel flew past Hook Head, County Wexford. Lingering rarities included the Hudsonian Godwit in Shetland, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Black-winged Stilts in Lincolnshire (five) and Yorkshire (six), Forster's Tern in Dorset, single Black Storks in Lincolnshire and Kent, Stejneger's Scoter and King Eider in Lothian and single Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and County Dublin. Scarcity highlights included two Melodious Warblers, two Common Rosefinches, two Red-backed Shrikes, three Marsh Warblers, three Barred Warblers, five Wrynecks, ten Icterine Warblers, a Ring-necked Duck, two Surf Scoters, a Dotterel, two Pectoral Sandpipers, a Night Heron, two Glossy Ibises, a Honey Buzzard, 12 Pomarine Skuas, 25 Long-tailed Skuas, a Glaucous Gull, four Sabine's Gulls, six Balearic Shearwaters, 288 Great Shearwaters, around 1,600 Cory's Shearwaters and a White-winged Black Tern.
-  Will Soar, RBA