Wednesday 7th April 2010
	A drake Black Duck on the Conwy Estuary (Conwy) was today's star find - the bird showed intermittently into the evening. Elsewhere new birds included a Black Kite was at Ringaskiddy (Co Cork), an Alpine Swift flew over Holland Haven Country Park (Essex), a drake Bufflehead was reported in Poole Park (Dorset) and a Marsh Sandpiper was reported at Tices Meadow (Surrey). An Alpine Swift in Folkestone (Kent), Little Bunting in Highland, Two-barred Crossbill in Bedfordshire and Long-billed Dowitcher in Merseyside all lingered, as did a Woodchat Shrike (Cornwall), Hoopoe (Lothian/Borders) and Cattle Egret in Dorset. An immature White-tailed Eagle toured East Yorkshire and just south of the Humber into Lincolnshire and a Serin flew over Kingsgate (Kent).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA