Thursday 24th April 2008
	Today's highlights included the discovery of a King Eider in East Yorkshire at Flamborough Head, a White-billed Diver in Moray at Burghead and a brief Red-rumped Swallow in Devon at Appledore. In Norfolk a Black-eared Kite was discovered at Sea Palling alongside at least two Black Kites in the vicinity. Lingering rarities comprised the Little Crake, King Eider and Falcated Duck in Devon, Ross's Gull and Ross's Goose in Lancashire, Lesser Yellowlegs in East Yorkshire, American Herring Gull in County Galway, Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Bonaparte's Gull in County Kerry, Black Kite in Suffolk, single Lesser Scaups in both Dumfries and Galloway and Forth and two Great White Egrets in Aberdeenshire whilst Cattle Egret reports concerned sixteen in Cornwall, four in Devon and singles in Ceredigion, Dorset and Wirral. The pick of the scarcities were an Icterine Warbler in Dorset, Kentish Plover on the Isle of Man, Pallas's Warbler in Cornwall, Purple Heron in Suffolk and Hoopoes in County Cork (2), Cornwall (2), Fife, Hertfordshire, Highland, Isles of Scilly, Shropshire and Wirral.
-  Chris Batty, RBA