Friday 23rd April 2010
	New discoveries included a singing male White-spotted Bluethroat at Welney WWT (Norfolk), Kentish Plover at Dawlish Warren NNR (Devon) and flyover Red-rumped Swallow in Devon, Bee-eater in Cornwall and Tawny Pipit in Co Cork. The Whiskered Tern (Cornwall) and Red-rumped Swallow (Kent) both remained on show, as did the Southern European wagtail (either an Ashy-headed, Iberian or hybrid) in Lancashire. Elsewhere scarcities came in the form of a Hoopoe in Pembrokeshire, Dotterels in Cheshire, Lancashire, Co Galway and the Conwy/Gwynedd border, Great White Egret in Aberdeenshire, Woodchat Shrike in Co Cork, American Wigeon in Cleveland, Serin in Dorset, Wryneck in Norfolk and Great Grey Shrike in Lincolnshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA