Thursday 14th May 2009
	Lingering rarities provided today's highlights - Black-winged Pratincole (Kent), Citrine Wagtail (Norfolk), Great Reed Warbler, Little Bittern and Red-throated Pipit (Scilly) and Savi's Warbler (Essex) were all still on show. In Merseyside the Pallid Swift reappeared at Crosby Marine Park/Seaforth LWT, two Red-rumped Swallows were seen on Isles of Scilly, the Balearic Woodchat Shrike remained in Co Wexford, White-winged Black Terns visited Great Livermere Lake, Suffolk and and Covenham Reservoir, Lincolnshire and on Mainland Orkney a Snowy Owl was seen again. In Somerset a Black Kite was logged over three different locations. Scarcities included nine Icterine Warblers, thirteen Temminck's Stints, two Kentish Plovers, two Bluethroats, and single Red-backed Shrike, Marsh Warbler, Serin and Wryneck.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA