Wednesday 29th April 2020
	Rarities today comprised both the Lesser Kestrel and Red-throated Pipit still on the Isles of Scilly, an Alpine Swift on the Isle of Wight at Sandown, a White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles, and in Aberdeenshire the King Eider returned to the Ythan Estuary. Scarcities included Purple Heron (East Sussex), Pectoral Sandpiper (Highland), Hoopoe (North Yorkshire), Iceland Gull (Shetland Isles), two Glaucous Gulls, and a total of seven migrant Dotterel. Significant late news concerned a female Pallid Harrier present yesterday on Shetland on Yell.
-  Chris Batty, RBA