Wednesday 20th May 2009
	A party of six Bee-eaters in Dorset, a lone Bee-eater in Lothian, Red-rumped Swallows in East Yorkshire and Cleveland, Black Kite in Kent and Black-headed Wagtail in Norfolk were all new discoveries today. Lingering rarities included the two Pratincoles, Black-winged in Kent and Collared in Norfolk, Squacco Heron in Dorest and Pallid Swift on Isles of Scilly. Great White Egrets were logged in Cleveland and Norfolk. In Lancashire a male Ortolan Bunting visited a feeding station near Pilling, in Norfolk the Woodchat Shrike was relocated near Morston (the Balearic Woodchat Shrike also remained in Co Wexford), a Purple Heron reappeared at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset and an Icterine Warbler was trapped on Bardsey Island, Gwynedd.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA