Thursday 8th May 2008
	A fine selection of rarities discovered today included a Collared Pratincole on Isle of Sheppey, Kent, three Red-footed Falcons (two in Kent and one in Lancashire), Savi's Warbler briefly on Brean Down, Somerset, Alpine Swift over Great Ormes Head, Conwy, Whiskered Tern at Lower Tamar Lake, Devon, Black Kite in Wiltshire, Bee-eater in Devon, and a drake Baikal Teal on Blakeney freshmarsh, Norfolk, for its second day. Lesser Scaup in North Yorkshire, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Black-winged Stilts in Gwent and Cheshire, American Golden Plover in Devon, Whiskered Tern in Dorset, three Red-rumped Swallows in Dorset, Black Kite on Fair Isle and Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk were all lingerers Short-toed Larks in Glamorgan and Dorset, Woodchat Shrikes in East Yorkshire and Devon, Icterine Warbler in Cornwall, Night Heron on North Uist, Pallas's Warbler in Hampshire, Hoopoes in Essex and Pembrokeshire and numerous Temminck's Stints were the scarcity highlights.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA