Thursday 22nd October 2026
	Todays find of the day was a male Siberian Rubythroat on Spurn Point in East Yorkshire. New rarities today consisted of a Dusky Warbler at Vaults Wood in Lothian, a Radde's Warbler at Galley Head in County Cork, a Hume's Warbler and Pallid Harrier at South Foreland in Kent, Lesser Scaups at both Alton Water in Suffolk and Little Loch Shin in Highland, both Baikal Teal and Ferruginous Duck at Needingworth Gravel Pits in Cambridgeshire and Lesser Yellowlegs at both Easington Lagoons in East Yorkshire and Holland Haven County Park in Essex. Continuing rarities today consisted of Ross's Goose in Highland and Lancashire, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Spotted Sandpiper in West Yorkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, White-rumped Sandpipers in County Cork, on Western Isles (3) and Anglesey, Pacific Golden Plover on Isle of Wight, Sora on Scilly, Bonaparte's Gull in Northumberland, American Black Tern in County Dublin, Rufous-tailed Robin in East Yorkshire, American Pipit in Northamptonshire, Siberian Stonechat in Borders, Chestnut Bunting in Shetland, Zitting Cisticola in Suffolk, Isabelline Shrike sp in Suffolk and East Yorkshire, Isabelline Wheatears in Lincolnshire, Desert Wheatear in County Durham, Red-eyed Vireo on Scilly, Paddyfield Warbler in County Durham, Hume's Warbler in Norfolk and East Yorkshire, Dusky Warblers in Norfolk and East Yorkshire, Radde's Warblers in East Yorkshire and Pallid Harrier in Glamorgan.
-  Luke Stoppard, RBA