Wednesday 5th August 2015
	Yet more Black Storks today with four different individuals confirmed late morning: singles lingering in East Yorkshire at Spurn, in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, and overflying Cley, Norfolk, and both Wykeham Forest and Mickleby, North Yorkshire. Other rarities comprised the Paddyfield Warbler still on the Shetland Isles, Red-footed Falcon in Staffordshire, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, two Bee-eaters in Cumbria, a brief Alpine Swift in Norfolk at Horsey, and flocks of four Bee-eaters briefly in both Kent and Suffolk. Seawatching records included a Fea's/Zino's Petrel passing Porthgwarra, Cornwall, two Cory's Shearwaters (County Cork), Great Shearwater (Cornwall (6) and County Waterford), Long-tailed Skua (County Cork and County Waterford), Sabine's Gull (East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire), and a total of 160 Balearic Shearwaters. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling (Glamorgan), Purple Heron (Suffolk), Sabine's Gull (Greater Manchester), Pectoral Sandpiper (Isles of Scilly), Ring-billed Gull (Cornwall and Lancashire), and a total of 19 Great White Egrets.
-  Chris Batty, RBA