Monday 18th April 2011
	Today's new discoveries included a Blue-winged Teal at Wheldrake Ings YWT (North Yorkshire), White-billed Diver off Lewis (Western Isles), Black Stork over Oulton Broad (Suffolk), Bee-eater at Marazion Marsh RSPB (Cornwall) and Penduline Tit at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB (Norfolk). A Bonaparte's Gull off Dawlish Warren NNR (Devon) was presumably the same bird seen at Budleigh Salterton over the weekend. Lingering rarities included Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Red-rumped Swallow in East Sussex, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, Ortolan Bunting in Dorset, King Eider in Aberdeenshire and Black Stork in Hampshire. Isles of Scilly continued to host two Bee-eaters, a Purple Heron, Hoopoe and four Woodchat Shrikes. The best of the rest came in the form of a Kentish Plover in Lothian, White-spotted Bluethroat in Norfolk, Night Heron in Dorset, Purple Herons in Fife, Cornwall and East Yorkshire, Hoopoes in Devon and Buckinghamshire and Woodchat Shrikes in Cornwall (2) and Co Waterford.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA