Thursday 26th April 2012
	Rarities today comprised both the Greater Yellowlegs and King Eider still in Aberdeenshire, Black-winged Stilts in Devon (3) and Lincolnshire, two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Red-breasted Goose in Highland, Ross's Goose in Moray, Glossy Ibises in Cumbria and the Western Isles, and a Tawny Pipit flew over Dungeness, Kent. Scarcities included a flock of six White Storks overflying Oxfordshire, Wrynecks in Aberdeenshire and Northumberland (2), Surf Scoter in Fife, and Dotterels in County Galway (3), Isle of Man and Oxfordshire. Significant late news concerned a Whiskered Tern present yesterday evening along the Derbyshire/ Nottinghamshire border at Long Eaton.
-  Chris Batty, RBA