Saturday 9th September 2023
	New discoveries today included a Savi's Warbler at Sandwich Bay, Kent, a Western Bonelli's Warbler at Three Castles Head, County Cork, a Red-rumped Swallow at Wimborne, Dorset, a Bee-eater near Stansted, Kent, a Pallid Harrier at Otmoor, Oxfordshire, a Kentish Plover at Tacumshin, County Wexford and a Wilson's Petrel passed Bridges of Ross, County Clare. Lingering rarities included the Brown Booby in Cleveland, Yellow Warbler in Shetland, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Citrine Wagtail in Cornwall, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson's Petrel in County Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk and Blue-winged Teal in Yorkshire. Scarcity highlights included an Ortolan Bunting, a Short-toed Lark, a Melodious Warbler, an Icterine Warbler, a Marsh Warbler, a Yellow-browed Warbler, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Woodchat Shrike, two Lapland Buntings, three Barred Warblers, six Red-backed Shrikes, six Hoopoes, seven Common Rosefinches, 33 Wrynecks, a Temminck's Stint, a Red-necked Phalarope, two Grey Phalaropes, four Buff-breasted Sandpipers, four American Golden Plovers, five Dotterel, eight Pectoral Sandpipers, three Honey Buzzards, a Purple Heron, eight Glossy Ibises, a Spotted Crake, an American Wigeon, a Glaucous Gull, two Sabine's Gulls, two Leach's Petrels, four Pomarine Skuas, 81 Balearic Shearwaters, around 900 Cory's Shearwaters and over 1,700 Great Shearwaters.
-  Will Soar, RBA