Thursday 7th August 2014
	New discoveries included a Terek Sandpiper in East Yorkshire and Greenish Warbler on Shetland, whilst a Caspian Tern was reported in flight off the Lothian coastline. The Stilt Sandpiper (Northumberland), Pacific Golden Plover (Orkney), Laughing Gull (Co Cork), Black-winged Pratincole (Cambridgeshire), White-rumped Sandpiper (Norfolk), breeding Bee-eaters (Isle of Wight), Lesser Scaup (Somerset) and families of Black-winged Stilts (Suffolk and West Sussex) all lingered. The best of the rest included Wryneck and Barred Warbler (Shetland), Red-backed Shrike (Buckinghamshire), Icterine Warbler (Orkney), two Cattle Egrets, two Spotted Crakes, three Pectoral Sandpipers and at least five Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA