Sunday 1st May 2016
	The highlight of the day was continued presence of the Western Rufous Turtle Dove in Kent. Elsewhere, a Lesser Scaup at Lochwinnoch, Clyde proved to be the roaming Portugese-ringed bird that bears a red nasal saddle, the Iberian Chiffchaff remained on the Isles of Scilly, Savi's Warblers were in both Norfolk and Suffolk, and White-billed Divers were noted in Aberdeenshire (9), Moray and the Western Isles. Scarcities included Kentish Plover and Serin (both Dorset), Cory's Shearwater (West Sussex), Rough-legged Buzzard (Yorkshire), Montagu's Harrier (Essex), two each of both Hoopoe and Spotted Crake, three Wrynecks, four Glossy Ibises and 14 Dotterel. In Cheshire the White-crowned Sparrow could not be found today at Woolston Eyes, and photographs taken yesterday show the bird was of the western taiga form gambelii Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow; the first British - and second Western Palearctic - record of this form; all others here being of the nominate eastern taiga form leucophrys.
-  Chris Batty, RBA