Thursday 30th May 2019
	In Shetland, a Great Knot was seen arriving over the sea at Skaw, Unst, and went on to show at close quarters on the beach there for the rest of the day. This wasn't the only rare wader to be found today, with a Broad-billed Sandpiper on the Ythan Estuary in Aberdeenshire and Lesser Yellowlegs at Castle Espie WWT in Co.Down. The Western Isles hosted yet another Iberian Chiffchaff, on North Uist. A Black Kite flew west over Reculver in Kent and a Bee-eater flew over Bempton Cliffs RSPB in East Yorkshire. Staying on was the Baikal Teal in East Yorkshire, Black Duck and Blue-winged Teal in Highland, Red-footed Falcon in Co.Wexford, Savi's Warblers in Gwent and Suffolk; Great Reed Warblers in Cleveland, West Yorkshire and Scilly; and Iberian Chiffchaffs in Lancashire, Suffolk and Pembrokeshire. Today's scarcity roll-call involved three Night Herons (together over Skokholm, Pembrokeshire), Short-toed Lark (Orkney), Great Grey Shrike (Cambridgeshire), Serin (Kent), Hoopoe (Dorset), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Bluethroat, two Temminck's Stints, White Stork, two Glossy Ibises, Lapland Bunting, Long-tailed Skua (Ayrshire), two Pomarine Skuas, two Glaucous Gulls, Iceland Gull, and single migrants of Dotterel and Honey Buzzard.
-  David Campbell, RBA