Monday 26th March 2012
	A Red-flanked Bluetail discovered on Galley Head, Co Cork today represented only the third Irish record. In Britain birders twitching the Common Yellowthroat in Gwent reported a Short-toed Eagle over Rhiwderyn this afternoon. Lingering rarities comprised Blue-winged Teal in Cornwall, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, two Long-billed Dowitchers in Somerset, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Spotted Sandpiper in Somerset, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, three White-billed Divers off Western Isles and Little Bunting in Devon. Glossy Ibises were logged in Norfolk (4), Anglesey, Suffolk, Cleveland and Essex. The best of the rest included three Hoopoes in Cornwall, Serin in East Yorkshire, Pectoral Sandpiper in Ayrshire and Night Heron in Devon.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA