Wednesday 3rd September 2008
	Today's highlights included an elusive Aquatic Warbler at Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, male Black-headed Wagtail in the Adur Valley, West Sussex, a Lesser Yellowlegs on Eden Estuary, Fife, new White-winged Black Terns at Shotwick, Flintshire and Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire and a Citrine Wagtail on Mainland Shetland. In Norfolk a Black Stork, probably the juvenile previously in the Northeast, circled over Great Yarmouth this morning. Lingering rarities consisted of Semipalmated Sandpiper in Devon, Hooded Merganser in Dorset, White-rumped Sandpiper in Norfolk, Citrine Wagtail on Isles of Scilly, Snowy Owl on Western Isles, White-winged Black Tern in Kent and Pacific Golden Plover on Orkney. Eight Wrynecks, two Barred Warblers, and singles of Tawny Pipit, Dotterel, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Melodious Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Shorelark and Red-backed Shrike were all reported. Several Grey Phalaropes were found, including two at Weston Turville Reservoir, Buckinghamshire and one at Chasewater, Staffordshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA