Sunday 20th July 2014
	Continuing rarities today comprised the Black-winged Pratincole still in Cambridgeshire, Collared Pratincole and family party of six Black-winged Stilts in Suffolk, Ross's Gull in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Laughing Gull in County Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, and the family of five Black-winged Stilts in West Sussex. Otherwise, a Black Kite was seen briefly in Berkshire. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (London), Long-tailed Skua (Lothian), White Stork (Oxfordshire), Red-backed Shrike and Temminck's Stint (both Norfolk), Spotted Crake (Dorset and Gloucestershire), Glossy Ibis (Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Oxfordshire) and nine Great White Egrets. Late news concerned a Black-winged Stilt at Shapwick Heath, Somerset on 13th July.
-  Chris Batty, RBA