Tuesday 2nd June 2015
	A Swainson's Thrush on Skokholm Island (Pembrokeshire) today completed a hat-trick of catharus thrushes in Britain and Ireland this spring, following the Grey-cheeked Thrush in Co Mayo and the Veery on North Ronaldsay (the latter was still present today). Elsewhere new discoveries included Greenish Warblers on Unst and Out Skerries (Shetland), whilst the Greater Yellowlegs (Hampshire), Black-winged Stilt (West Sussex), Red-footed Falcon (East Sussex) and Squacco Heron (Isles of Scilly) all lingered The best of the rest included a summer-plumage Grey Phalarope (Warwickshire), a report of a Great Grey Shrike (Kent), Corncrake (Cheshire), Green-winged Teal (Derbyshire), Marsh Warbler (Shetland), Balearic Shearwater (Cornwall), White-winged Black Tern (Dorset), Dotterel and Lapland Bunting (Orkney), Sabine's Gull (Argyll), two American Wigeons, two Long-tailed Skuas, two Golden Orioles, four Bluethroats, two Red-backed Shrikes, three Common Rosefinches, seven Red-necked Phalaropes, 10 Icterine Warblers and at least 11 Red-backed Shrikes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA