Monday 1st April 2013
	Thye highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Snowy Owl on North Uist, Western Isles, first seen here as an adult male on 14th August 2003; approaching ten years ago. Nearby, the Harlequin Duck remained at Balranald, whilst on Lewis two White-billed Divers continued their stay between Port of Ness and Skigersta. Elsewhere, rarities included a brief Black Kite in Cornwall at St Agnes and Gwithian, with the Pacific Diver reported again nearby in Mount's Bay, the Pied-billed Grebe remained in Somerset, as did a Penduline Tit in Kent, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, three White-billed Divers together in Aberdeenshire, Richardson's Canada Goose in County Sligo, Glossy Ibis in both Pembrokeshire and West Sussex, and single Lesser Scaups in Clyde, Cornwall, Glamorgan, Gwent, Herefordshire and Lincolnshire. The eigth and ninth White-spotted Bluethroats of the spring were located in Dorset and Kent, with other singles lingering in the latter county and on the Isle of Wight, Kentish Plovers were in both Dorset and East Sussex, a Hoopoe was found in Devon, Shorelark in Lincolnshire, and Lapland Bunting in Oxfordshire, whilst the Pallas's Warbler remained in Berkshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA