Saturday 27th April 2013
	New discoveries today included an adult Bonaparte's Gull at Chew Valley Lake, two Black-winged Stilts at Ham Wall RSPB, a Whiskered Tern at Durleigh Reservoir and a Black Kite over Shapwick Heath NNR, all Somerset, an adult Lesser Yellowlegs at Tacumshin, County Wexford, a Bee-eater over Niton, Isle of Wight, a Black-bellied Dipper at Liston, Essex and single Red-rumped Swallows at Dungeness, Kent and Lodmoor RSPB, Dorset. Lingering rarities included the Eastern Subalpine Warbler in Suffolk, Western Subalpine Warblers in Gwynedd at Pembrokeshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in Yorkshire, 13 White-billed Divers off Portsoy, Aberdeenshire (with another in Orkney), Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset, Pallid Harrier in Pembrokeshire, Pallid Swift on the Isles of Scilly, Lesser Scaups in Lancashire, Cleveland and Nottinghamshire, King Eiders in Aberdeenshire and Shetland and Ferruginous Duck in Suffolk.
-  Will Soar, RBA