Thursday 3rd May 2018
	Rarities today comrpised the Green Heron still in Pembrokeshire, both American Bittern and Savi's Warbler still in Suffolk, Snowy Owl again in Lincolnshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Iberian Chiffchaffs in both Cornwall and the Wirral, Long-billed Dowitchers in Northumberland and County Wexford, Red-rumped Swallows in Lincolnshire (2), Shetland Isles and Suffolk, Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included Serin (West Sussex), Golden Oriole (Dorset), Pectoral Sandpiper (Devon), Ring-necked Duck (Cleveland), Cattle Egret (Lancashire), two Purple Herons, two Wrynecks (Norfolk), two Long-tailed Skuas (Western Isles), three Glossy Ibises and a total of 15 migrant Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA