Monday 4th March 2019
	Rarities today comprised the Pied-billed Grebe still on the Shetland Isles, Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly, Penduline Tit in Dorset, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in both Cornwall and Dorset and White-billed Divers off the Orkney Isles, Shetland Isles and Western Isles. Scarcities included Little Bunting (Norfolk), Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), Richard's Pipit (County Wexford), American Wigeon (Worcestershire), Ring-necked Duck (Dorset), Glossy Ibis (East Sussex), two each of both Rough-legged Buzzard and Great Grey Shrike, three Ring-billed Gulls, five Yellow-browed Warblers and a total of nine Shorelarks. Spring migrants were represented by a Little Ringed Plover (Hampshire), two Ospreys, four Wheatears, six Swallows and a total of 87 Sand Martins across 19 counties.
-  Chris Batty, RBA