Friday 18th June 2010
	Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the ringed Blue-winged Teal in Cambridgeshire, Great Reed Warbler in Derbyshire, King Eider in Aberdeenshire and the Iberian Chiffchaff in Gwent. An Alpine Swift showed briefly in Northumberland at Whittle Dene. Scarcities included the territorial White-spotted Bluethroat still in Norfolk, a Purple Heron in Kent, a Great White Egret briefly in West Sussex, single Common Rosefinches in both Dorset and Perth and Kinross and Marsh Warblers in Norfolk, Northumberland, South Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight.
-  Chris Batty, RBA