Friday 20th July 2018
	The highlight of the day came late on, when the Sooty Tern was relocated on the Ythan Estuary (Aberdeenshire) at dusk. Elsewhere in Scotland a Ferruginous Duck in Forth and three Two-barred Crossbills on Orkney were logged, whilst English rarities comprised Lesser Yellowlegs (Norfolk), Savi's Warbler (Suffolk) and Bonaparte's Gull (Kent). The best of the rest included Red-backed Shrike (Surrey), Temminck's Stints (Norfolk [2] and Kent), Red-necked Phalarope (Lincolnshire), Purple Herons (Dorset and Kent), White-winged Black Tern (East Yorkshire), Pectoral Sandpipers (Lincolnshire and Kent), Great Shearwater (Cornwall) and a report of a Golden Oriole (East Yorkshire).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA