Tuesday 24th April 2018
	Mediterranean rarities today comprised a brief Alpine Swift in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, Red-rumped Swallows in Lincolnshire (2) and East Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilt in both East Sussex and Kent, territorial Savi's Warblers in Hampshire, Lancashire and Suffolk, and mobile Black Kites recorded in East Sussex, Kent, London (2) and Norfolk. Lingering rarities from elsewhere were the American Bittern still in Suffolk, Pallid Harrier in Norfolk, Laughing Gull on the Isles of Scilly, Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset, and King Eider and two White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire. Scarcities included Hoopoe (Dorset), Ring-necked Duck (Lincolnshire), Snow Goose (Cheshire), Cattle Egret (Kent), Dotterel and Glossy Ibis (both Norfolk).
-  Chris Batty, RBA