Sunday 17th August 2008
	The highlight of the day was relocation of the Audouin's Gull on the Lincolnshire coast at Chapel Point. Present mid afternoon and again briefly this evening, this species is once again proving difficult to twitch. New discoveries included at Paddyfield Warbler on Whalsay, Shetland Isles, a Glossy Ibis in West Yorkshire at Allerton Bywater, Great White Egret in County Galway at Lough Corrib and a Cattle Egret at Dungeness, Kent. The Bonaparte's Gull in Angus at Lunan Bay, the Snowy Owl on the Western Isles on North Uist and the Cattle Egret at Ballard Down, Dorset were all presumably returning or locally relocating birds. Lingering rarities comprised five Two-barred Crossbills and a Citrine Wagtail together on the Shetland Isles, Wilson's Phalarope in Northumberland, American Golden Plover and Falcated Duck in Kent, Lesser Scaup in Clyde, Great White Egret in Hampshire and Hooded Merganser in Dorset. There was a notable influx of Black Terns to England with 293 reported from fourteen counties including Staffordshire (77), Kent (72), London (56) and Warwickshire (27).
-  Chris Batty, RBA