Sunday 29th June 2008
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Woodchat Shrike that is strongly suspected to be of the form badius - Balearic Woodchat Shrike - at Minehead, Somerset. Elsewhere, a Great White Egret was found at Lurgangreen, County Louth and a Black Kite showed at Wykeham Forest, North Yorkshire. Lingering rarities consisted of the Lesser Yellowlegs in Norfolk, Hooded Merganser in Dorset and the pair of Black-wingesd Stilts in Cheshire. Scarcities included Common Rosefinch in Forth, single Red-backed Shrikes both in Berkshire and Norfolk and Rose-coloured Starlings in Lancashire, Lincolnshire and the Orkney Isles (2).
-  Chris Batty, RBA