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Friday 14th October 2016  
  In East Yorkshire, the Siberian Accentor remained at Easington, with the Spurn recording area also hosting an Olive-backed Pipit, a Tawny Pipit, five Dusky Warblers, a Rose-coloured Starling, two Pallas's Warblers, two Little Buntings, two Richard's Pipits, a Great Grey Shrike and 18 Shorelarks, along with an excellent selection of other scarce migrants.

In Norfolk the Black-browed Albatross was reported again, off Cley, with new discoveries in the county including a Black-throated Thrush on Scolt Head Island, single Dusky Warblers at Brancaster, Wells and Stiffkey, a Radde's Warbler at Warham Greens and a second Olive-backed Pipit in Wells Woods.

New discoveries in Shetland included a Pied Wheatear and Olive-backed Pipit at Scatness (with another of the former at Flamborough, East Yorkshire briefly), Pechora Pipit on Foula, Siberian Stonechat on Fair Isle, an Arctic Warbler at Weisdale and two Northern Long-tailed Tits at Sumburgh.

A Red-eyed Vireo was trapped on Portland, Dorset, with other new discoveries today including an Iberian Chiffchaff at Sennen, Cornwall, a Desert Wheatear at Hartlepool, Cleveland, single Siberian Stonechats at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire and Dowlaw, Borders, Radde's Warbler at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, other Dusky Warblers at Corton, Suffolk, Hartlepool, Cleveland, Tynemouth, Northumberland and Isle of May, Fife, Greenish Warbler on Cape Clear, County Cork, Pallid Harrier at Potteric Carr, South Yorkshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper on Inch Island, County Donegal and a Baird's Sandpiper on Achill Island, County Mayo.

Other lingering rarities included the Black-faced Bunting, Pine Bunting and Pechora Pipit in Shetland, Semipalmated Plover in County Mayo, two Red-flanked Bluetails in Lincolnshire, Siberian Stonechat in Cleveland and Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall.
Will Soar, RBA
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