Sunday 6th August 2006
	Northumberland produced both the new rarities today with the first Greenish Warbler of the autumn at Cresswell Pond in the evening and a White-winged Black Tern at Big Waters throughout the day. Elsewhere, rare passerines included Rose-coloured Starlings on Unst, Shetland and at Skibbereen, Co Cork, a male Red-backed Shrike at Coldwaltham, West Sussex and the long staying Woodchat Shrike at Friskney, Lincolnshire. In Kent the Cattle Egret reappeared at Stodmarsh whilst in Essex the mobile Great White Egret remained around Chigborough Lakes. In Co Antrim the second-winter Franklin's Gull remained at Whitehouse Lagoon.
-  Chris Batty, RBA