Thursday 30th April 2015
	Today's highlights included the lingering mega-rare American non-passerines - Great Blue Heron on Isles of Scilly, Hudsonian Godwit in Somerset and Pied-billed Grebe in Lancashire, as well as Pacific Diver and American Herring Gull in Cornwall, a report of a Red-footed Falcon in Oxfordshire, Lesser Scaup in Ayrshire, Laughing Gull in Co Cork, Harlequin Duck in Highland and Red-rumped Swallow in East Yorkshire. The best of the rest included Purple Heron and Woodchat Shrike (Cornwall), Spotted Crake (Lancashire), Grey-headed Wagtail (North Yorkshire), Cattle Egret (East Sussex), Hoopoe (Co Mayo), two Pectoral Sandpipers, two American Wigeons and eight Dotterel.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA