Tuesday 24th July 2018
	The bird of the day was the lingering Sooty Tern, which was available for most of the daylight period on the Ythan Estuary (Aberdeenshire). Elsewhere the Franklin's Gull reappeared on the Cleveland/North Yorkshire border, whilst the Black Duck (Highland), Ferruginous Duck (Forth), Bonaparte's Gull (Kent), Lesser Yellowlegs (Norfolk), Savi's Warbler (Suffolk) and Snowy Owl (Western Isles) all lingered. The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Somerset), Red-backed Shrike (Surrey), two Rose-coloured Starlings and three Pectoral Sandpipers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA