Saturday 25th July 2009
	A Ferruginous Duck was a new arrival at Skinflats, Forth and a Wilson's Petrel was seen from a boat offshore from Padstow, Cornwall. Lingering rarities comprised the Collared Pratincole still in East Yorkshire, Franklin's Gull on the Orkney Isles, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, American Golden Plover in Norfolk, Cattle Egret in Devon and single Great White Egrets in both Somerset and Suffolk. Seabirds elsewhere included a Sabine's Gull in Highland, Cory's Shearwater off Suffolk and Balearic Shearwaters in Cornwall (59), Devon (3) and the Isles of Scilly.
-  Chris Batty, RBA