Wednesday 20th June 2018
	Highlight of the day was the lingering American Royal Tern at Church Norton (West Sussex) - but only just. Early risers bagged the tern at first light, before it departed to the south at 4.37am. In the evening the tern was relocated in Weymouth (Dorset), when it flew over Lodmoor RSPB at 8pm, before eventually settling in Portland Harbour until 10.15pm, when it again flew off. New discoveries elsewhere comprised Semipalmated Sandpiper at Washington WWT (Co Durham) (originally reported as a Little Stint before it was reidentified from photographs) and Black-headed Bunting on Unst (Shetland). The Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Shetland), Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) and Great Reed Warbler (Cambridgeshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included White-winged Black Tern (Co Durham), Red-necked Phalarope (East Yorkshire), three Rose-coloured Starlings, Glossy Ibis (Northumberland) and Lapland Bunting (Western Isles).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA