Friday 1st May 2015
	New discoveries today included a Red-rumped Swallow at Shoeburyness, Essex, a White-rumped Sandpiper on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and a White-billed Diver off Esha Ness, Shetland. Lingering rarities included the Hudsonian Godwit at Meare Heath, Somerset, Great Blue Heron at Lower Moors, Isles of Scilly, Harlequin Duck in Aberdeen, three White-billed Divers off Portsoy and King Eider at Newburgh, all Aberdeenshire, Pied-billed Grebe at Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire, American Herring Gull near St Just, Cornwall and four Black-winged Stilts at Cliffe, Kent.
-  Will Soar, RBA