Tuesday 22nd August 2006
	Bird of the day was again a Fea's Petrel, this time past Galley Head, County Cork. The only other new rarities found today were also only seen in flight; a Black Stork was logged over Luccombe Down, Isle of Wight, and a Bee-eater was reported flying south over Darwen, Lancashire. In Aberdeenshire the adult Franklin's Gull put in morning and evening appearances on the Ythan Estuary and elsewhere the White-rumped Sandpiper remained at East Chevington, Northumberland. The east coast was quieter than in previous days, with many of the mouth-watering selection of scarce migrants having moved on. However, a scattering of Barred Warblers were still at several locations. A Kentish Plover joined the Dovey Estuary high tide roost, Ceredigion and the Bluethroat remained on Tresco, Scilly. Remnants of the sizeable Dotterel passage lingered at a number of sites and a Corncrake was a tremendous local find at Hulver, Suffolk.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA