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Saturday 10th October 2026  
  Finds of the day were a Rose-breasted Grosbeak on Inishbofin in County Galway and a Grey-cheeked Thrush at Easter Quarff in Shetland.

New rarities today included a Red-eyed Vireo at Gorie on Bressay in Shetland, a Rustic Bunting between Culswick and Selivoe in Shetland, Baird's Sandpipers at Rough Point in County Kerry and Drift Reservoir in Cornwall, a Hornemann's Redpoll at Upper Burn of Sound in Lerwick, an Olive-backed Pipit at Funzie on Fetlar in Shetland, a Radde's Warbler at Lytchett Bay in Dorset, White-rumped Sandpipers at Rough Point in County Kerry, Myroe Levels and Lough Beg in County Derry and Balranald on North Uist in the Western Isles, and a Lesser Yellowlegs at Kilbrittain Creek in County Cork.

Rarities included a Wilson's Snipe in Scilly, a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, a Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler in Shetland, a Scops Owl in Orkney, a Sora in Scilly, a Ross's Goose in Highland, a Western Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland, a Siberian Stonechat in Shetland, a King Eider in Shetland, Long-billed Dowitchers in the Western Isles and Orkney, an Arctic Warbler in Shetland, White-rumped Sandpipers in County Cork, and Lesser Yellowlegs in County Donegal, Fife and East Yorkshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA