Thursday 5th June 2014
	The highlight of the day was a Black Stork in Suffolk, where it was tracked overhead between Lowestoft and Covehithe during the late morning. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Spectacled Warbler still in Norfolk, Ross's Gull in Devon, both Caspian Tern and Great Reed Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Savi's Warbler in Gwent, King Eider in Lothian, Lesser Scaup in Cheshire, the pair of Black-winged Stilts in Kent, and two Bee-eaters briefly in Borders. Scarcities included 12 Red-backed Shrikes, six Glossy Ibises, two each of both Marsh Warbler and migrant Red-necked Phalarope, Rose-coloured Starling (South Yorkshire), Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Woodchat Shrike (both Cleveland), Purple Heron (Cornwall), Red-breasted Flycatcher and Icterine Warbler (both Shetland Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (Suffolk) and Ring-necked Duck (County Down). Significant late news concerned a singing Savi's Warbler present yesterday at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA