Sunday 17th May 2020
	Rarities today comprised the Tawny Pipit still in Cornwall at Kelynack, territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in London at Ponders End, a Caspian Tern briefly in Suffolk, a Lesser Yellowlegs reported in Norfolk, two Bee-eaters together in Cornwall at St Buryan, Black Kites briefly in both Kent and Norfolk, and Red-footed Falcons in Kent, Northamptonshire, Somerset and South Yorkshire (2). Scarcities included Golden Oriole (Northumberland), Montagu's Harrier (Norfolk), Wryneck and Glaucous Gull (Shetland Isles), two each of Hoopoe, Temminck's Stint and Lapland Bunting, and three each of Purple Heron, Iceland Gull and migrant Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA