Sunday 25th March 2012
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Scops Owl on St Mary's, Isle of Scilly at dusk. Associated arrivals comprised Serin, Wryneck and Hoopoe around the Isles of Scilly, Night Heron and four Hoopoes in Cornwall, Purple Heron in County Wicklow and two Hoopoes in Devon. The Alpine Swift remained on Lewis, Western Isles, but the Baillon's Crake had gone from Great Saltee Island, County Wexford. Other lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Northern Waterthrush on the Isles of Scilly, Common Yellowthroat in Gwent, Greater Yellowlegs in Aberdeenshire, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Bonparte's Gull in County Antrim, Spotted Sandpiper in Somerset, Long-billed Dowitchers in Carmarthenshire, Dumfries and Galloway, and Somerset (2), Blue-winged Teal in Cornwall, single Lesser Scaups in both Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, Little Bunting in Devon, Ross's Goose in Clyde, and Glossy Ibises in Anglesey, Dorset (2), Essex, County Galway, Norfolk (4), Pembrokeshire (3) and Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA