Monday 30th July 2018
	The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Sooty Tern on the Ythan Estuary, Aberdeenshire where it has now been seen intermittently for eleven days. Other seabirds included a Fea's/Desertas/Zino's Petrel passing Carnsore Point, County Wexford, five Wilson's Petrels at sea off the Isles of Scilly, and between County Cork and the Isle of Wight 22 Cory's and 41 Great Shearwaters were logged. Terrestrial rarities comprised a Lesser Yellowlegs new in Devon at Wrafton, Marsh Sandpiper and Bonaparte's Gull both still in Kent, and both Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Norfolk. Scarcities included Icterine Warbler and Marsh Warbler (together on the Shetland Isles), Purple Heron and Glossy Ibis (Leicestershire), Surf Scoter (County Durham), migrant Red-necked Phalarope (Kent), Green-winged Teal (Cleveland), Cattle Egret (Cheshire), two each of both Rose-coloured Starling and Spotted Crake and a total of four Pectoral Sandpipers. Significant late news concerned the reappearance of the Franklin's Gull in Cleveland yesterday evening.
-  Chris Batty, RBA