Tuesday 14th April 2009
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a male Lesser Scaup at Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire. Elsewhere, brief encounters included a Whiskered Tern in Essex at Hanningfield Reservoir, a Red-rumped Swallow in Worcestershire at Lower Bittell Reservoir, a Black Kite in East Sussex over Seaford and a Great White Egret in London over Rainham Marshes. Lingering rarities comprised the White-throated Sparrow still in Hampshire, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Bonaparte's Gull in Oxfordshire, American Golden Plover in Norfolk, two King Eiders in County Sligo, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, Great White Egrets in both Ceredigion and Clyde and single Cattle Egrets in Cheshire, County Cork, Devon and Pembrokeshire. Scarcities included three Great Grey Shrikes, two Lesser Snow Geese together in Aberdeenshire, a Kentish Plover in Norfolk, Rough-legged Buzzard in Cambridgeshire, Ring-necked Duck in Dorset, Green-winged Teal in Leicestershire and a Surf Scoter on the Orkney Isles.
-  Chris Batty, RBA