Friday 20th April 2012
	A male Little Bittern was present at Cilgerran (Pembrokeshire) for its second day. In Lancashire a pair of Black-winged Stilts arrived at Leighton Moss RSPB, presumably the birds that had been at Clayhanger Marsh (111 miles south southeast of Leighton Moss) until dusk yesterday. In Ireland an American Golden Plover flew over Tacumshin (Co Wexford). Lingering rarities included Black-winged Stilt in Lincolnshire, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, at least two White-billed Divers in Moray, Long-billed Dowitchers in Somerset (2) and Carmarthenshire and Spotted Sandpiper in Somerset. Glossy Ibises lingered in Dorset, Western Isles, Cleveland and Pembrokeshire (3). The best of the rest included Kentish Plover in Ceredigion, Wryneck on Orkney and Hoopoe in Kent.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA