Wednesday 6th April 2011
	Further Spring rarities found today included a Pallid Swift at Dungeness, Kent, a Gull-billed Tern at Sennen, Cornwall, a Red-footed Falcon at Willingham-by-Stow, Lincolnshire, a Black Stork in the Eccles /Sea Palling area, Norfolk and single Alpine Swifts at Leiston, Suffolk and Rathfarnham, County Dublin. Lingering rarity highlights included the Short-toed Treecreeper in Suffolk, Red-flanked Bluetail in Dorset, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Rufous Turtle Dove in Oxfordshire, Whiskered Tern in Western Isles and Alpine Swift in Yorkshire. The best of the scarcities were two Woodchat Shrikes, a Spotted Crake, a White-tailed Eagle, a Short-toed Lark, two Hoopoes and three Purple Herons.
-  Will Soar, RBA