Monday 23rd July 2018
	The Sooty Tern returned to the Ythan Estuary this evening, where it lingered from 5.10pm until dusk. Elsewhere the Snowy Owl (Western Isles), Savi's Warbler (Suffolk), Lesser Yellowlegs (Norfolk), Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) and Ferruginous Duck (Forth) all lingered, and a Wilson's Petrel was logged from an Isles of Scilly pelagic. The best of the rest included Red-backed Shrike (Surrey), Purple Heron (Somerset), Pectoral Sandpipers (Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Shetland), Rose-coloured Starlings (Argyll [2] and East Yorkshire) and American Golden Plover (Argyll).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA