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Friday 11th May 2018  
  New discoveries included Spotted Sandpiper (Somerset), Red-throated Pipit (Suffolk), Forster's Tern (Co Wexford), Black Kites (Cambridgeshire and Kent) and Bee-eaters (Kent [2] and Forth).

Lingering rarities comprised American Bittern (Suffolk), Lesser Yellowlegs (Western Isles), Savi's Warbler (Suffolk), Laughing Gull (Isles of Scilly), White-billed Diver (Moray), Black-winged Stilts (Essex [2] and Lincolnshire), Lesser Scaup (Co Donegal) and King Eider (Aberdeenshire).

The best of the rest included Red-throated Pipit (Shetland), Red-backed Shrike (Gwynedd), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland) and five each of Dotterel and Temminck's Stint.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA