Tuesday 1st June 2010
	The highlight of the day was a male Collared Flycatcher on Lewis, Western Isles. Other arrivals of eastern origin included both an elusive Thrush Nightingale and a singing Marsh Warbler in Norfolk, a Rustic Bunting on the Orkney Isles, Red-breasted Flycatcher and Icterine Warbler together in East Yorkshire, Golden Oriole on the Shetland Isles, Grey-headed Wagtail in Ayrshire and six Red-backed Shrikes. Other rarities seen today comprised the Trumpeter Finch still in Norfolk, Forster's Tern and Glossy Ibis together in County Wexford, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Red-rumped Swallow on the Orkney Isles, Bee-eater in Suffolk, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset, a Black Kite briefly in Northumberland, territorial Iberian Chiffchaffs in both Kent and South Yorkshire and single Red-footed Falcons in Cambridgeshire, County Wexford and Hertfordshire. Other scarcities included a Short-toed Lark on the Isles of Scilly, a Great White Egret in Aberdeenshire, a Ring-necked Duck in County Armagh and three Purple Herons: two in Kent and one in Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA