Friday 4th July 2014
	Lingering rarities included Bridled Tern (Northumberland), Laughing Gull (Co Cork), Black-winged Stilts (West Sussex), Lesser Scaup (Somerset) and Ross's Gull (Devon). The best of the rest included Pectoral Sandpiper in Norfolk, Marsh Warbler on Fair Isle, Rose-coloured Starling in Lancashire, Long-tailed Skua off Western Isles, Cory's Shearwater off Co Cork, Glossy Ibises in Perth & Kinross, Dorset, Lincolnshire, Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, West Yorkshire and Kent, whilst a Purple Heron was reported in Hampshire. Late news related to a a party of three Night Herons in Somerset yesterday and a Wilson's Petrel logged from a pelagic off Co Cork on Sunday 29th June.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA