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Sunday 29th May 2016  
  Highlight of the day was the discovery of an Eastern Olivaceous Warbler on Mainland Shetland, whilst a Squacco Heron in Glamorgan, Little Bittern in London, Savi's Warbler in Gwent, Bee-eater in Somerset and White-billed Diver in Western Isles were also new today.

Lingering rarities included Black-billed Cuckoo (Western Isles), Bonaparte's Gull (Northumberland), Gull-billed Tern (Lothian), Greenish Warbler (Bardsey Island), subalpine warbler sp (Fife), Red-footed Falcon (Essex), Black-winged Stilts (Essex), Great Spotted Cuckoo (Dorset), Dalmatian Pelican (Cornwall), Great Reed Warbler (Cambridgeshire) and, once again, the Lammergeier was claimed on Dartmoor (Devon).

The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Suffolk), Icterine Warbler (Highland), Ring-necked Duck (Argyll), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Western Isles), Shorelark (Shetland), Wryneck (Oxfordshire), two Red-necked Phalaropes, three Red-breasted Flycatchers, four Red-backed Shrikes and four Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA