Monday 20th April 2015
	Lingering rarities included the Great Blue Heron and Black Duck (Isles of Scilly), Greater Yellowlegs (Hampshire), White-billed Diver and King Eider (Aberdeenshire), Black-winged Stilts (Essex), Eastern Subalpine Warbler and American Herring Gull (Cornwall), Blue-winged Teal (Lincolnshire), Harlequin Duck (Highland) and Laughing Gull (Wirral), whilst a Bee-eater was discovered in Cornwall. The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Cornwall), Spotted Crake (Lancashire), Golden Oriole (Cornwall), Cattle Egret (Kent), two Dotterels, two Glossy Ibises, three Woodchat Shrikes, at least four Night Herons, four Wrynecks and five Hoopoes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA