Friday 10th May 2013
	Another male Collared Flycatcher was found today, this time on Whalsay, Shetland, but there was no sign of the Northumberland bird. A summer plumaged Spotted Sandpiper was in Wadebridge, Cornwall, a Red-throated Pipit flew south over Spurn, Yorkshire and a Lesser Scaup was on St John's Pool, Highland. Lingering rarities included the Thrush Nightingale on Shetland, Subalpine Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Bonaparte's Gulls in Devon and County Wexford, Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, White-billed Diver in Moray, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Blue-winged Teal in Clyde, Lesser Scaup in Yorkshire and Glossy Ibis in Pembrokeshire. An impressive skua passage included 30 Long-tailed Skuas (27 off Criccieth, Gwynedd) and at least 378 Pomarine Skuas. A single Leach's Petrel was also seen, off Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.
-  Will Soar, RBA