Friday 19th March 2010
	As the common Spring migrants continues to arrive in earnest, the first of the regular Spring rarities concerned two Alpine Swifts, in Kent near Broadstairs, and in Devon near Exeter. Elsewhere, lingering rarities consisted of Bufflehead on The Fleet, Dorset, four Penduline Tits at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk, Pacific Diver off Finavarra Point, County Clare, Forster's Tern on Claddagh Beach, County Galway, single Little Buntings in Dunnet, Highland and Polbathic, Cornwall, three Glossy Ibises at Shapwick Heath NNR, Somerset, single Ferruginous Ducks and Lesser Scaups at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset (with others of the latter in Glamorgan, Clyde and Cornwall) and two Richardson's Canada Geese on Islay, Argyll. New scarcities included a Dotterel on Tiree, Argyll and single Hoopoes remained in Devon and Dorset.
-  Will Soar, RBA