Wednesday 10th July 2019
	Discoveries today included a Marsh Sandpiper in Suffolk at Minsmere, a Gull-billed Tern in South Yorkshire at Adwick Washlands and a Two-barred Crossbill on the Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, whilst on the Shetland Isles a total of 32 Two-barred Crossbills today included 19 new birds. In Kent the Bonaparte's Gull returned to Oare Marshes to moult and was joined by a Lesser Yellowlegs that photographs show to be the same adult Lesser Yellowlegs as that present earlier this year on Fair Isle, Shetland on 18th May, at Scatness, Mainland, Shetland on both 19th-29th May and 19th-20th June and Cley, Norfolk on 7th-8th July. The Lesser Yellowlegs at Titchwell, Norfolk on 29th June-4th July 2019 was a different bird and both of these were distinct from those that wintered at Lodmoor, Dorset until 20th April, visited Bryher, Isles of Scilly on 11th May and Castle Espie, County Down on 30th May all of which were different from each other. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Terek Sandpiper still in Cheshire albeit only briefly, a Blue-winged Teal still in Clyde, Lesser Scaup in Borders, Savi's Warbler in Suffolk and two Black-winged Stilts in Norfolk. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (County Roscommon), Serin (Kent), Common Rosefinch (Western Isles), Purple Heron (Somerset), Grey-headed Wagtail (Shetland Isles), Glossy Ibis (Merseyside), two Waxwings (Lothian) and three Rose-coloured Starlings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA