Wednesday 11th April 2018
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Short-toed Treecreeper at Dungeness (Kent). Elsewhere rarity highlights included American Bittern (Suffolk), American White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Bonaparte's Gulls (Cambridgeshire and Dorset), Savi's Warblers (East Sussex and Suffolk), Horned Lark (Surrey), Black-winged Stilt (East Sussex), Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Suffolk) and two Alpine Swifts (Cornwall). The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Cambridgeshire), Black-bellied Dipper (Shetland), two each of Woodchat Shrike, Hoopoe and Waxwing and three Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA