Thursday 5th April 2018
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of two Alpine Swifts on The Lizard (Cornwall). Elsewhere a Cackling Goose arrived on Tiree (Argyll) with Barnacle Geese, and the Snowy Owl (Pembrokeshire), American White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Hooded Merganser (Western Isles), Horned Lark (Surrey), Coues's Arctic Redpolls (Norfolk [2+] and Suffolk), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent), Forster's Tern (Co Galway), American Herring Gull (Co Clare) and King Eider (Co Cork) all lingered. The best of the rest included Hoopoes (Carmarthenshire and Kent), Little Bunting (London), Dotterel and Black-bellied Dipper (Shetland), White-spotted Bluethroat (Lincolnshire) and Spotted Crake (Devon).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA