Friday 5th June 2015
	New discoveries today included a Black Stork over Newton Abbot, Devon, an Olive-backed Pipit on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Forster's Tern at Fiddaun Island, County Galway, single Greenish Warblers at Swinister and Swining, both Shetland, single Red-footed Falcons at Kilmurrin County Waterford, Hemsby, Norfolk and Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, a Black Kite at Wykeham Forest, Yorkshire and a White-billed Diver at Esha Ness, Shetland. Bee-eaters were recorded in Norfolk at Winterton (two), Isles of Scilly on St Agnes (two), Lincolnshire at Wragby (six) and Rimac, Cornwall at Maenporth (two) and Yorkshire at Kilnsea. Lingering rarities included the Swainson's Thrush in Pembrokeshire, Greater Yellowlegs in Hampshire, Little Bittern in Suffolk, Black-winged Stilt in Sussex, Greenish Warbler on Fair Isle and King Eider in Aberdeenshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA