Tuesday 21st August 2018
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of an American Black Tern in Kent at Dungeness in the evening. Other new discoveries included a Marsh Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire on the Ythan Estuary, Greenish Warbler in Norfolk at Cromer and an Aquatic Warbler briefly in Hampshire at Lepe. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper and Citrine Wagtail all on the Isles of Scilly, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Suffolk, both Hooded Merganser and White-rumped Sandpiper on the Shetland Isles, and Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and Wirral. Scarcities included Ortolan Bunting (West Sussex), Rose-coloured Starling (Western Isles), Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), Long-tailed Skua (Aberdeenshire), Glossy Ibis (Cornwall), two each of Melodious Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Wryneck, Spotted Crake and Pectoral Sandpiper, three of Purple Heron, Sabine's Gull and Cattle Egret and 20 Great Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA