Tuesday 8th April 2008
	New rarities reported today included a Little Bittern at Radipole Lake RSPB, Dorset, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on Fair Isle, Red-rumped Swallow at Kelling, Norfolk and several Black Kite sightings along the North Norfolk coast, with another in Suffolk. In Kent the first-winter Dark-eyed Junco remained on show at Dungeness, Kent, where it was joined by a male White-spotted Bluethroat. Another male White-spotted Bluethroat at Aldcliffe Marsh, Lancashire, was a tremendous west coast discovery. The party of three Black-winged Stilts continued to show on The Lizard, Cornwall, and in Suffolk a couple of Penduline Tits reappeared near Oulton Broad. Lingering rarities came in the form of Spotted Sandpipers in Forth and Glamorgan, Black Duck in Pembrokeshire, Ross's Goose in Lancashire, Lesser Scaups in Dumfries and Galloway and Somerset, King Eider in Ayrshire and Barrow's Goldeneye in Co Down.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA