Tuesday 29th June 2010
	In Devon the House Finch lingered at East Prawle throughout the day (confirmed from photographs as the same individual present in Cornwall in May). The two Gull-billed Terns found at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB yesterday evening were still present on the Exe Estuary early this morning before departing to the north at 7.10am. In neighbouring Dorset a Gull-billed Tern flew past West Bexington at 11.30am and a further possible sighting came from Abbotsbury at 4.45pm. In Somerset the Little Bittern remained at Walton Heath and scarcities included White-spotted Bluethroat (Norfolk), Marsh Warbler (Essex), Great White Egrets (Somerset and Co Cork), Temminck's Stint (Cleveland) and Purple Herons (Kent).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA