Friday 21st March 2008
	Good Friday failed to produce any new rarities but several long-stayers were still on show. These included the Black Duck in Pembrokeshire, Franklin's Gull and Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Cornwall, Falcated Duck in Devon, Red-breasted Goose in Cumbria and Ross's Geese in Lancashire and Norfolk. At least twenty one Cattle Egrets were reported from various locations in southern Britain. Three Surf Scoters lingered off the English south coast - singles off Devon, Dorset and East Sussex. Four Ring-billed Gull were available (in Pembrokeshire, Glamorgan, Anglesey and Essex), the male Rose-coloured Starling was still in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and the Pallas's Warbler in Weymouth, Dorset continued to sing. A couple of Common Cranes in Northumberland were well received. In Ireland the American Buff-bellied Pipit remained on Red Barn Strand, Co Cork.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA