Sunday 28th April 2019
	The highlights of the day were a Moltoni's Subalpine Warbler identified at Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire, a Baikal Teal in Cambridgeshire at the Ouse Washes, a Kentish Plover in Dorset at Ferrybridge and a Red-rumped Swallow at West Rise Marsh, East Sussex. brief encounters included a Greater Yellowlegs in Argyll on Tiree, a Laughing Gull passing Portland Bill, Dorset, a Dusky Warbler in County Durham at Derwent Gorge, Alpine Swift in East Yorkshire and Black Kites in both Hampshire and the Shetland Isles. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the American White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Bufflehead in West Yorkshire, Citrine Wagtail in Gloucestershire, Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, Subalpine Warbler in Northumberland, Blue-winged Teal in Highland, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Spotted Sandpiper in County Wexford, Iberian Chiffchaff in West Yorkshire, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk, Spanish Wagtail on the Wirral, Dresser's Eider in County Dublin, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Glamorgan and Hampshire, territorial Savi's Warblers in Nottinghamshire and Suffolk, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire and Moray. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark and Lapland Bunting (Shetland Isles), White-winged Black Tern (Somerset), Serin and Night Heron (Kent), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Wryneck (Shetland Isles), Honey Buzzard (Gloucestershire), Temminck's Stint (South Yorkshire), Yellow-browed Warbler (Orkney Isles), American Wigeon (Cambridgeshire), two Long-tailed Skuas and Hoopoe, three Glossy Ibises, four each of Ring-necked Duck and Surf Scoter, 12 migrant Dotterel. On the Isles of Scilly an escaped Godlewski's Bunting briefly masqueraded as a Rock Bunting.
-  Chris Batty, RBA