Tuesday 12th August 2014
	Lingering rarities included Stilt Sandpiper in Northumberland, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, the breeding Bee-eaters on Isle of Wight, five Black-winged Stilts in Suffolk and Laughing Gull in Co Cork. Seawatchers logged Wilson's Petrels from an Isles of Scilly pelagic (3) and off Bridges of Ross (Co Clare), 35 Cory's Shearwaters, 16 Great Shearwaters and three Sabine's Gulls, whilst two Spotted Crakes (London and Norfolk), Glossy Ibis (Lincolnshire), Long-tailed Skua and Pectoral Sandpiper (West Sussex) were also recorded.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA