Monday 18th August 2014
	The highlight of the day was a Fea's Petrel from a pelagic off the Isles of Scilly, where it showed well and allowed the best ever photographs of this species in Britain to be taken. Seabirds elsewhere included both Great and Cory's Shearwaters passing Norfolk, Cory's Shearwater passing North Yorkshire, and single Long-tailed Skuas passing Pembrokeshire and Somerset. Rarities elsewhere comprised a Long-billed Dowitcher new in County Offaly at Lough Boora Parklands, Bonaparte's Gull still in Kent, and the seven Bee-eaters remained on the Isle of Wight. Scarcities included Grey Phalarope (Essex), Red-necked Phalarope (Gloucestershire), Spotted Crake (Norfolk), Montagu's Harrier (Kent), Glossy Ibis (Lincolnshire), Night Heron (Warwickshire), Cattle Egret (West Sussex), Pectoral Sandpiper (Isles of Scilly) and Ring-billed Gull (County Louth).
-  Chris Batty, RBA