Thursday 22nd April 2010
	The highlight of the day was a showy Red-rumped Swallow at Minster, Kent. Rarities elsewhere included the Whiskered Tern still in Cornwall and the Bonaparte's Gull still in East Sussex. In Lancashire a male Ashy-headed or Spanish Wagtail (or perhaps a hybrid between the two) showed well at Brockholes Wetland in the evening. Scarcities comprised three each of Hoopoe and Green-winged Teal, two each of Ring-billed and Iceland Gull and single Woodchat Shrike (Somerset), American Wigeon (Cleveland), Snow Goose and Great White Egret (both Aberdeenshire), Ring-necked Duck (Orkney Isles), Spotted Crake (Cambridgeshire), Great Grey Shrike (Lincolnshire), Glaucous Gull (Western Isles) and Tundra Bean Goose (Lothian). Single migrant Honey Buzzard, Corncrake and Dotterel were logged in Devon, Conwy and Lancashire respectively.
-  Chris Batty, RBA