Thursday 2nd April 2009
	A singing male Western Subalpine Warbler in Cornwall and Snowy Owl on Lewis, Western Isles were both new discoveries. Cornwall also continued to host the Great Spotted Cuckoo at Bartinney Downs, as well as seven Cattle Egrets (six near Sennen and a single on the Hayle Estuary). Elsewhere King Eiders remained in Sligo (2) and Fife, the Lesser Scaup was still in Nottinghamshire and additional Cattle Egrets included birds in Warwickshire, Isles of Scilly and Dorset, as well as a total of nine in Co Cork. In Fife a Common Rosefinch made landfall on Isle of May and an American Wigeon, two Ring-necked Ducks and two Green-winged Teals were logged.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA