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Tuesday 30th April 2019  
  The highlight of the day was a brief Great Spotted Cuckoo in Norfolk at Salthouse. Rarities elsewhere comprised Eastern Subalpine Warblers in Devon on Lundy and in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, Red-footed Falcons in South Yorkshire and Suffolk, a Black-winged Stilt in Cambridgeshire, the American White-winged Scoter still in Lothian, Blue-winged Teal and King Eider in Highland, Black Kite on the Shetland Isles, Iberian Chiffchaff in West Yorkshire, territorial Savi's Warblers in Nottinghamshire and Suffolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in Glamorgan and Hampshire, Dresser's Eider still in County Dublin, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire (2) and Moray.

Scarcities included Little Bunting (East Yorkshire), Woodchat Shrike and Night Heron (Isles of Scilly), Wryneck (Orkney Isles), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Pectoral Sandpiper (Staffordshire), American Wigeon (Cambridgeshire), White-tailed Eagle (Norfolk then Suffolk), two each of Hoopoe, Ring-necked Duck and Glossy Ibis, three Serins, five Surf Scoters and Montagu's Harriers and 10 migrant Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA