Sunday 29th August 2010
	The highlight of the day was a Bonaparte's Gull seen briefly at Tynemouth, Northumberland in the evening: it had been found yesterday just to the south at Whitburn, County Durham. Elsewhere, lingering rarities included the Semipalmated Sandpiper still in Lothian, the House Finch in Devon, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset and Glossy Ibises in each of County Clare (2), County Dublin (2) and County Wexford. Scarcities were headlined by a total of 91 Lapland Buntings across seven counties (including 51 on Fair Isle, Shetland Isles), otherwise, there were seven Pectoral Sandpipers, three each of Common Rosefinch (together on the Shetland Isles) and Wryneck, two each of Kentish Plover, Spotted Crake (together in County Durham), Barred Warbler, Ring-billed Gull and Great White Egret, and single Short-toed Lark (Norfolk), Woodchat Shrike (Isles of Scilly), Red-backed Shrike (Cornwall), Hoopoe (West Sussex), Caspian Gull (Suffolk), Red-necked Phalarope and Cattle Egret (both Essex) Seawatching highlights comprised a Wilson's Petrel off County Donegal, Cory's Shearwater in Norfolk, Great Shearwater passing Pembrokeshire, 24 Long-tailed Skuas spread across eleven counties, eight Sabine's Gulls, twenty Leach's Petrels, nineteen Pomarine Skuas, five Grey Phalaropes and 83 Balearic Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA