Saturday 26th May 2018
	New discoveries today included a Blyth's Reed Warbler on Blakeney Point, Norfolk, a Subalpine Warbler at Burniston, North Yorkshire, a Greenish Warbler at Lowestoft, Suffolk, a Bee-eater over Abbotsbury and an Alpine Swift over Hengistbury Head, both Dorset, single Black Kites over Porth Joke, Cornwall, Thurlbear, Somerset and Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire and a White-rumped Sandpiper at Ring Marsh, County Wexford. Lingering rarities included single Iberian Chiffchaffs in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, Rustic Bunting in Northumberland, single Bee-eaters in Norfolk and Scilly, Tawny Pipit and Forster's Tern in County Wexford, single Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire and Kent and King Eider in Aberdeenshire. Scarcity highlights included a Serin, two Short-toed Larks, three Common Rosefinches, three Rose-coloured Starlings, three Golden Orioles, three Red-breasted Flycatchers, six Icterine Warblers, six Marsh Warblers, 11 Red-backed Shrikes, a White-winged Black Tern, a Red-necked Phalarope, an American Golden Plover, two Pectoral Sandpipers, two Dotterel, eight Temminck's Stints, three Montagu's Harriers, five Honey Buzzards, a Ring-billed Gull, three Glaucous Gulls, five Iceland Gulls, five Pomarine Skuas and three Glossy Ibises.
-  Will Soar, RBA