Sunday 23rd May 2010
	New rarities flooded into Britain today - Great Snipe (Western Isles), a pair of Subalpine Warblers (Gwynedd), Black Kites (Cornwall and Lincolnshire), Savi's Warbler (Norfolk), Bee-eaters (three in Lincolnshire then East Yorkshire and four in Cornwall), Red-rumped Swallows (Dorset and East Yorkshire) and Broad-billed Sandpipers (South Yorkshire and Aberdeenshire) were all discovered today. Lingering rarities included Wilson's Phalarope (Merseyside), Black Stork (Western Isles), Iberian Chiffchaffs (Gwent, South Yorkshire and Kent), King Eider (Aberdeenshire), Great Reed Warbler (Derbyshire), Pacific Diver (Co Clare) and Squacco Heron (Cornwall). Scarcities were represented by 29 Temminck's Stints, four Red-backed Shrikes, three Purple Herons, two Dotterels, two White-winged Black Terns, Grey-headed Wagtail, Serin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Hoopoe and a Great White Egret.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA