Sunday 3rd May 2015
	New discoveries included a Red-throated Pipit on the Derbyshire/ Greater Manchester border and Bonaparte's Gull in Hampshire, whilst the Hudsonian Godwit (Somerset), Great Blue Heron (Isles of Scilly), Pied-billed Grebe (Lancashire), White-rumped Sandpiper and White-billed Diver (Orkney), Lesser Scaup (Glamorgan), American Herring Gull and Pacific Diver (Cornwall) and Harlequin Duck and White-billed Diver (Aberdeenshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included Kentish Plover (Somerset), Pectoral Sandpipers (Norfolk and Essex), Purple Heron and two Night Herons (Isles of Scilly), Hoopoe (Isles of Wight), Shorelark (Cleveland), Wrynecks (Fair Isle and Isles of Scilly) and American Wigeon (Northumberland).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA