Saturday 19th May 2012
	An exciting day with several new rarities discovered. In East Yorkshire a Citrine Wagtail was at Flamborough, in Fife a Thrush Nightingale on the Isles of May, in Somerset a Great Reed Warbler at Weston-super-Mare, in London a Bonaparte's Gull at Cross Ness, on the Isles of Scilly both Red-throated Pipit and Little Bunting, on the Shetland Isles a White-billed Diver at West Burra, and in Northumberland a Red-rumped Swallow at Cramlington. Brief Bee-eaters were noted in East Sussex (2), Kent, Lincolnshire and Pembrokeshire. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present comprised the Greater Yellowlegs in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern and Red-rumped Swallow together in County Wexford, Savi's Warbler in Norfolk, Blue-winged Teal in Clyde, King Eider in County Donegal, White-rumped Sandpiper in Northumberland, White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles, and Glossy Ibises in Pembrokeshire (4) and West Sussex. Scarce migrants included 10 Temminck's Stints, nine Golden Orioles, eight Dotterel, seven Red-backed Shrikes, six Bluethroats, three Woodchat Shrikes, two Pectoral Sandpipers, Kentish Plover (Northumberland), Serin (Suffolk), Hoopoe (Norfolk), Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), Red-necked Phalarope (Gloucestershire), and on the Isles of Scilly, Melodious Warbler, Short-toed Lark and Purple Heron.
-  Chris Batty, RBA