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Tuesday 3rd May 2011  
  New discoveries included a Spotted Sandpiper at Westwood Pool (Worcestershire - the first county record), Rustic Bunting and Subalpine Warbler at Spurn (East Yorkshire), Black Kite at Gibraltar Point (Lincolnshire), Great Snipe on Mainland Shetland, Red-rumped Swallow on Fair Isle (Shetland) and Bee-eater at Portland (Dorset).

The Rufous Turtle Dove in Oxfordshire, Bonaparte's Gull and American Golden Plover in Cornwall, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Scaup in Lancashire, White-billed Diver in Moray, Red-rumped Swallow in Kent and Subalpine Warblers on Shetland (2) and Orkney all lingered.

The best of the rest included Kentish Plover in Lancashire, White-winged Black Terns in West Sussex and Suffolk, Wrynecks in West Sussex and Dorset, Hoopoes in Norfolk and Gloucestershire, Woodchat Shrike in Suffolk and Night Heron in Dorset.
Stuart Piner, RBA