Monday 24th April 2017
	Mediterranean rarities dominated with a Little Bittern still on the Isles of Scilly, Western Subalpine Warbler in Cornwall, Black Kite in Norfolk, territorial Savi's Warblers in both Norfolk and Suffolk, a Red-rumped Swallow moving from North Yorkshire to East Yorkshire, and Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire (2), Gloucestershire (3), Isles of Scilly (2) and West Sussex (2). Associated scarcities were Ortolan Bunting (Suffolk), Hoopoe (Derbyshire), Kentish Plover (Dorset), Short-toed Lark and Golden Oriole (both on the Isles of Scilly), two each of Night Heron, Serin and Glossy Ibis, and a total of 39 Cattle Egrets. Other rarities comprised the Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, Black Duck in Highland, Long-billed Dowitcher on the Orkney Isles, two White-billed Divers together in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall and single Bonaparte's Gulls in Essex, Hampshire and Oxfordshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA