Sunday 5th May 2019
	Rarities today comprised the Baikal Teal still in Cambridgeshire, American White-winged Scoter still in Lothian, Great Spotted Cuckoo in Norfolk, Black Duck in Highland, Bufflehead in South Yorkshire, Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, territorial Iberian Chiffchaff and Ferruginous Duck together in West Yorkshire, King Eider again in Gwynedd, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Red-rumped Swallows in both East Sussex and Oxfordshire, Spotted Sandpipers in Lothian and County Wexford, and Bonaparte's Gulls in Essex and Hampshire. Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike (North Yorkshire), Ortolan Bunting (County Wexford), Common Rosefinch and Honey Buzzard (Suffolk), Yellow-browed Warbler (Shetland Isles), Red-necked Phalarope (Lincolnshire), American Wigeon (Cambridgeshire), Glossy Ibis (Cornwall), two each of Little Bunting, Serin, Night Heron, Purple Heron and Temminck's Stint, three Ring-necked Ducks, four Surf Scoters (together in Lothian), four Montagu's Harriers, five White-winged Black Terns (together in Essex), and 18 migrant Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA