Friday 16th July 2010
	Lingering rarities comprised the White-tailed Plover at Dungeness RSPB (Kent), King Eider at Filey (North Yorkshire), Franklin's Gull at Chasewater (Staffordshire), Little Bittern at Walton Head (Somerset), Terek Sandpiper at Blennerville (Co Kerry) and Laughing Gull at Ballycastle (Co Antrim). Elsewhere, yet another possible Yelkouan Shearwater was observed from a Cornish headland (Bass Point), the Buff-breasted Sandpiper was still in Norfolk, the Great White Egret and Purple Heron were both still at Dungeness (Kent), a Surf Scoter lingered off Blackdog (Aberdeenshire) and two drake Ring-necked Ducks remained in Fife.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA