Monday 4th May 2015
	New discoveries included Tawny Pipit (Fair Isle), Red-rumped Swallows (East Sussex and East Yorkshire), Black Kite (Oxfordshire) and Lesser Scaup (West Yorkshire), whilst Great Blue Heron (Isles of Scilly), Pied-billed Grebe (Lancashire), Red-throated Pipit (Derbyshire/ Greater Manchester), Pacific Diver (Cornwall), Red-rumped Swallow (East Sussex, briefly joined by the second bird referred to above), Bonaparte's Gull (Hampshire), two Black-winged Stilts (Kent) and King Eider and two White-billed Divers (Aberdeenshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included Cattle Egret (Kent), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Honey Buzzard (Kent), Glossy Ibis (Nottinghamshire), Shorelark (Cleveland), Woodchat Shrike and Golden Oriole (Cornwall), two Rough-legged Buzzards, two Pectoral Sandpipers, three Wrynecks and 29 migrant Dotterel.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA