Tuesday 23rd April 2019
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of the fourth Subalpine Warbler in seven days on the Isles of Scilly; a Western Subalpine Warbler on St Agnes. Rarities elsewhere comprised the American White-winged Scoter still in Lothian, Black Duck, Blue-winged Teal and King Eider all still in Highland, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Black Kites briefly in both Gwent and Somerset, Black-winged Stilts in Kent (2), Norfolk and Suffolk (2), White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire (2) and Moray (2), and Savi's Warblers in Aberdeenshire, Dorset, Kent, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk. Scarcities included Little Bunting (Shetland Isles), Serin (West Sussex), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Red-necked Phalarope (Gwent), Rough-legged Buzzard (Kent), Yellow-browed Warbler (Suffolk), two each of both Ortolan Bunting, Hoopoe and Temminck's Stint, three of Woodchat Shrike and Ring-necked Duck, four of Surf Scoter and Glossy Ibis, and 6 migrant Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA