Tuesday 15th May 2012
	New rarities discovered today comprised Black Kites in both County Wexford at Lady's Island Lake, and Kent, moving over both Dungeness and Northward Hill, and single Red-rumped Swallows briefly at both Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire, and Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Greater Yellowlegs in Aberdeenshire, Pallid Harrier in East Yorkshire, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Squacco Heron in Somerset, Blue-winged Teal in Cambridgeshire, Black-winged Stilt in Lincolnshire, and four Glossy Ibises together in Pembrokeshire. Scarcities included 11 migrant Dotterel, six Temminck's Stints, four Golden Orioles, three Long-tailed Skuas, two each of both Hoopoe and Pectoral Sandpiper, Woodchat Shrike in Devon, Richard's Pipit in Dorset, Serin in Suffolk, Kentish Plover in Northumberland and a Sabine's Gull in Highland.
-  Chris Batty, RBA