Wednesday 23rd May 2012
	Hot news this evening related to a singing male Baillon's Crake present at Malltraeth Marsh RSPB (Anglesey) for its second day. In Herefordshire the Cream-coloured Courser lingered until late morning when it departed Bradnor Hill in a south-westerly direction. Elsewhere lingering rarities included Great Reed Warblers in Somerset and Dorset, Red-rumped Swallow and Forster's Tern in Co Wexford, Snowy Owl on Western Isles and Bonaparte's Gull in London. A Red-footed Falcon in Cambridgeshire and Black Kite in Norfolk were both flyover records. The best of the rest included Woodchat Shrike in Dorset, Red-breasted Flycatcher in Aberdeenshire, Night Heron in West Sussex, Bluethroats in Lincolnshire and Northumberland, Marsh Warbler in Suffolk, Purple Heron in Hertfordshire, Short-toed Lark on Isles of Scilly and Hoopoes in Borders and Devon.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA