Thursday 1st March 2007
	Cornwall remains the birding county of choice with the elusive immature white Gyr still present by the Camel Estuary near Padstow. Only seen at dawn and dusk today this elusive bird is presumably using Stepper Point primarily as a roost site and feeding elsewhere. Elsewhere in the county the White-billed Diver, Spotted Sandpiper and probable Central Asian Lesser Whitethroat all showed well at the Hayle Estuary, the Dusky Warbler remained in Newquay and what was thought to be the Pacific Diver was watched distantly in Mount's Bay. Major rarities elsewhere comprised the Pacific Diver still at Llys-y-Fran Reservoir, Pembrokeshire, Barrow's Goldeneye at Loch Venachar, Forth and Black-eared Kite at Snettisham, Norfolk. In Scotland Black-throated Thrush, Snowy Owl, White-tailed Eagle and Lesser Scaup were all seen again whilst Ireland continued to host Forster's Tern, American Herring Gull and Long-billed Dowitcher.
-  Chris Batty, RBA