Sunday 24th June 2018
	Rarities today comprised the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still on the Wirral, Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgeshire, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and London, and Black Kites reported briefly in both Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. Scarcities included Red-breasted Flycatcher (Isle of Man), Purple Heron (County Cork), Cattle Egret (Merseyside), Long-tailed Skua (Highland), Spotted Crake (West Yorkshire), and three Rose-coloured Starlings (Aberdeenshire, County Kerry and the Orkney Isles).
-  Chris Batty, RBA