| 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. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||