Tuesday 19th May 2009
	Rarity highlights included both Collared Flycatcher and Red-rumped Swallow still in Fife, Black-winged Pratincole in Kent, Collared Pratincole in Norfolk, Pallid Swift in Merseyside, Pallid Swift and Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly, Snowy Owl in County Mayo, a brief Squacco Heron in Suffolk, Balearic Woodchat Shrike in County Wexford, Great White Egret in Cleveland and the Western or Semipalmated Sandpiper remaining in Devon. On the Shetland Isles the Laughing Gull remained along with two Subalpine Warblers, six Bluethroats, five Icterine Warblers, a Wryneck and a Grey-headed Wagtail. Scarce migrants elsewhere totaled seven Long-tailed Skuas, five Bluethroats, four Temminck's Stints, three each of Icterine Warbler and Grey-headed Wagtail, two each of Rose-coloured Starling and Golden Oriole and singles of Woodchat Shrike (Norfolk), White Stork (Angus) and Ring-billed Gull (County Westmeath).
-  Chris Batty, RBA