Wednesday 27th March 2019
	Rarities today comprised the Great Spotted Cuckoo still on the Isle of Wight, a Red-rumped Swallow briefly in County Cork, Blue-winged Teal still in Highland, Spotted Sandpiper in County Waterford, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Lesser Scaup Somerset, Ferruginous Duck in Staffordshire and a Coues's Arctic Redpoll new at Thorne Moors, South Yorkshire. Scarcities included Night Heron (Isles of Scilly), Serin (Norfolk), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Temminck's Stint (Cornwall), American Wigeon (Worcestershire), Hoopoe (Dorset), Black Brant, Green-winged Teal, three Ring-necked Ducks, four Ring-billed Gulls, five Glossy Ibises and Great Grey Shrikes and 11 Shorelarks. Incoming summer migrants included Common Tern (Wiltshire), Whitethroat (London) and Swift (Dorset), two each of both Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail and Sedge Warbler, seven Ospreys, eight Ring Ouzels and a total of 17 Garganey.
-  Chris Batty, RBA