Saturday 10th May 2008
	Headline news today concerned a male Spectacled Warbler in Suffolk. Initially identified as a Subalpine Warbler, it was later reidentified, enabling good numbers of local birders to connect before dark. An influx of Red-footed Falcons into Bedfordshire occurred, with birds at Broom GPs, Sandy and Coronation Pit, with further sightings in Hampshire, West Yorkshire and Kent. A Red-throated Pipit was seen briefly on the Isle of May, Fife, and a female Citrine Wagtail was seen at Spurn. Bee-eaters flew over Horsey, Norfolk, (two), Beeston Bump, Norfolk, St.Agnes, Scilly, Arthurstown, County Wexford and Lade GPs, Kent. Other new rarities included a White-winged Black Tern at Draycote Water, Warwickshire, Bonaparte's Gull at Stocks Reservoir, Lancashire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Northumberland, Black-winged Stilt at Ibsley Water, Hampshire, Glossy Ibis in County Wexford and a second Snowy Owl on North Uist, Western Isles. The Whiskered Tern remained in Cheshire, with another bird at Slimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire, American Herring Gull and Forster's Tern in County Galway and County Down respectively, and an eagle species was seen a few times over the New Forest, Hampshire, but remained distant.
-  Will Soar, RBA