Sunday 5th April 2020
	Discoveries today included an Alpine Swift in Dorset at Leigh, Red-rumped Swallow in Hampshire at Titchfield Haven, and a Red-footed Falcon reported in Cornwall at Sancreed. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Lesser Kestrel still on the Isles of Scilly and the West Siberian Stonechat still in Cheshire. Scarcities included three Hoopoes (Cornwall, Devon, and Scilly), two each of both Rough-legged Buzzard (Buckinghamshire and Essex) and Shorelark (Norfolk), American Wigeon and Lapland Bunting (Suffolk), Spotted Crake (Merseyside), Ring-necked Duck (Bedfordshire), Dotterel (County Kerry), Surf Scoter (Lothian), and Grey Phalarope (Lincolnshire). Incoming spring migrants included Garden Warbler (Oxfordshire), Grasshopper Warbler (Scilly), Nightingale (Suffolk), two each of Redstart, Cuckoo and Hobby, three Swift, four each of Garganey and Tree Pipit, six Little Terns, 10 Yellow Wagtails, 12 White Wagtails, and 42 Ring Ouzels.
-  Chris Batty, RBA