Sunday 25th July 2010
	Highlights came in the form of a Melodious Warbler on Bardsey Island (Gwynedd), Purple Herons at Summer Leys NR (Northamptonshire) and Sandwich Bay (Kent), and Cattle Egrets at Doxey Marshes (Staffordshire) and Vange Marshes/Wat Tyler Country Park (Essex). Lingering rarities included Little Bitterns in Somerset, King Eider in North Yorkshire and American Herring Gull in Co Kerry, whilst two Pectoral Sandpipers remained in Norfolk, a juvenile Caspian Gull was still in Devon, both Purple Heron and Great White Egret continued to show at Dungeness RSPB (Kent) and in Angus a Surf Scoter lingered in Lunan Bay.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA