Monday 21st April 2014
	Today's new discoveries included flyby Franklin's Gull in Cleveland and White-billed Diver in East Sussex, whilst a Western Subalpine Warbler was discovered in West Sussex. In Dorset a male Northern Harrier was photographed in flight over Portland Bill this morning whilst in Devon a pratincole sp was at Northam Burrows Country Park this evening Lingering rarities included Baikal Teal in Cambridgeshire, Sardinian Warbler in Co Cork, White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire and Western Isles (2), Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Kent, King Eiders in Fife and Co Donegal, Red-breasted Goose in Dumfries & Galloway and Two-barred Crossbill in Kent. The best of the scarcities included Spotted Crake in Kent, Richard's Pipit in Norfolk (the probable Richard's Pipit remained in East Yorkshire), Woodchat Shrike on Isles of Scilly, Shorelark in Kent, Hoopoes in Norfolk and Somerset, Serins in Dorset, Western Isles and East Sussex, Wryneck in Northumberland, Yellow-browed Warbler in Worcestershire and Cattle Egret in Cambridgeshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA