Friday 17th August 2007
	The only new rarity today was a Great White Egret which dropped in to Bough Beech Reservoir in Kent. Lingering rares included Semipalmated Sandpiper on St Mary's, Scilly, Wilson's Phalarope at Bishop Middleham, County Durham, Black Stork again on the Alaw Estuary in Anglesey, White-rumped Sandpiper on Breydon Water, Norfolk, Great White Egret at Swillington, West Yorkshire, Squacco Heron at Earith, Cambridgeshire, White-winged Black Tern at Abberton, Essex, Black Kite at Nocton Fen, Lincolnshire, Glossy Ibis at Marshside, Lancashire and the oversummering female Subalpine Warbler again retrapped on the Isle of May, Fife. A juvenile Night Heron in Sussex and a scattering of Balearic Shearwaters were among the best of the rest. Sadly, the reported Great Knot in Fife turned out to be more of a 'great not' when it was re-identified as a Red Knot.
-  Andy Symes, RBA