Monday 23rd October 2023
	The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Upland Sandpiper in Cornwall at Sennen near to where it was first been seen on 9th October. Discoveries elsewhere included a Pallid Swift on the Shetland Isles at Lerwick, Mainland, and in Moray a White-billed Diver at Burghead. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Red-headed Bunting, Eastern Stonechat species, Pallid Harrier, and two Blue-winged Teals all in East Yorkshire, Yellow Warbler on Shetland, Lesser Grey Shrike in Argyll, Squacco Heron in Somerset, Baird's Sandpiper and White-rumped Sandpiper in County Cork, Red-breasted Geese in Argyll and Northumberland, White-billed Divers in Lothian and East Yorkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire and County Louth, and Long-billed Dowitchers in Cornwall, Norfolk, and East Sussex. On the Isles of Scilly a Red-throated Pipit was new on St Agnes, with around island totals of two each of both Little Bunting and Lapland Bunting, three of Red-breasted Flycatcher and Yellow-browed Warbler, Sabine's Gull, Pomarine Skua, Grey Phalarope, 245 Cory's Shearwaters, and 1,172 Great Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA