Friday 2nd August 2019
	A Sooty Tern slowly and distantly tracked east past Weybourne then Sheringham in the early morning. In West Sussex, a Squacco Heron turned up briefly Pagham Harbour in West Sussex. White-rumped Sandpipers were fresh in at Aberlady Bay in Lothian and Snettisham RSPB in Norfolk. A group of three Two-barred Crossbills fed in roadside gardens at Weisdale on Mainland Shetland. Lingering rarities included Blue-winged Teal in Clyde, Forster's Tern in Co.Louth, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Long-billed Dowitchers in Co.Derry and Lincolnshire and White-rumped Sandpipers in Lincolnshire (two) and Co.Wexford. Among the day's scarcities were Common Rosefinch (Lincolnshire), two Night Herons (Glos and Co.Wexford), Hoopoe (Isle of Wight), Pectoral Sandpiper (Essex), Red-backed Shrike (Gwynedd), Barred Warbler (Shetland) Long-tailed Skua (Norfolk), Cory's Shearwater (Cornwall), 18 Balearic Shearwaters and Glaucous Gull (Western Isles).
-  David Campbell, RBA