Wednesday 5th August 2009
	The highlight of the day was the reappearance - albeit it only briefly - of the Caspian Tern in Gloucestershire, now by the Severn Estuary at Lydney. Other brief encounters included single Great White Egrets in both Hampshire and Kent, with more obliging rarities included the Great Spotted Cuckoo still in Norfolk, Marsh Sandpiper on the Isles of Scilly, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, Ferruginous Duck in Fife, Great White Egrets in both Suffolk and Somerset; the later with two Cattle Egrets and a Ferruginous Duck. Scarcities included Pectoral Sandpipers in Cleveland, Lincolnshire and Norfolk (2), Spotted Crake in Hampshire, Ring-necked Duck in Fife, Ring-billed Gull in County Clare, an Icterine Warbler on the Shetland Isles and a family of Marsh Warblers at Kilnsea, East Yorkshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA