Thursday 8th June 2017
	The Elegant Tern could not be relocated today in Hampshire but rarities noted as present were the Spotted Sandpiper still in Cumbria, a Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk and in Norfolk the Black-winged Stilts that arrived at Potter Heigham Marshes on 5th May now have four chicks. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern and Night Heron (both Norfolk), Ortolan Bunting and Common Rosefinch (together on the Orkney Isles), Woodchat Shrike (Highland), Purple Heron (Suffolk), Icterine Warbler (Shetland Isles), Hoopoe (Gloucestershire), two migrant Red-necked Phalaropes, three Red-backed Shrikes, four Cattle Egrets and a total of eight Marsh Warblers. Significant late news from Devon concerned a Black-headed Bunting on 4th June near Wembury and a Bee-eater on 6th June at Man Sands.
-  Chris Batty, RBA