Thursday 27th August 2009
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of two juvenile White-winged Black Terns on the English east coast in the evening; at Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire and at Woodhorn, Northumberland. Lingering rarities included the Wilson's Phalarope back in Lancashire, Lesser Yellowlegs still in both Lothian and the Isles of Scilly, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset, Cattle Egret in Hampshire and single Great White Egrets in each of East Yorkshire, Kent and Somerset. Scarcities included five Wrynecks, four Barred Warblers, three Pectoral Sandpipers, two each of Icterine Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Spotted Crake and Ring-billed Gull, along with a brief Kentish Plover in Kent, Red-necked Phalarope in Hampshire, Ring-necked Duck in Staffordshire and White Stork on the Isle of Man. Notable seabirds comprised a Great Shearwater passing Cornwall, two Leach's Petrels off County Clare, three Grey Phalaropes, ten Sabine's Gulls recorded from five counties and 65 Balearic Shearwaters between County Clare, Cornwall and County Durham.
-  Chris Batty, RBA