Thursday 6th May 2021
	Incredibly, news emerged of a Northern Mockingbird present in a garden in Newbiggin, Northumberland, and already there for a few days. Reeling Savi's Warblers were found in Bedfordshire and Carmarthenshire. A Red-rumped Swallow was found at Audenshaw Reservoirs in Greater Manchester, while Dorset had a Tawny Pipit at Cogden Beach. Still present were the American Herring Gull and Blue-winged Teal in Cornwall, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Whiskered Tern in Dorset, Bonaparte's Gulls in Glamorgan and Worcestershire, Black Kite in Aberdeenshire and White-billed Diver in Orkney. The best of the rest included Woodchat Shrike (Essex), Night Heron (Herefordshire), Serin (Scilly), Montagu's Harrier (Worcestershire), two Hoopoes, Wryneck (Co.Durham), Grey-headed Wagtail (North Yorkshire), two Golden Orioles, Shorelark (Cleveland), Red-necked Phalarope (the returning female in Northumberland), two Buff-breasted Sandpipers, four Temminck's Stints, Little Bunting (Fair Isle), Black Brant (Essex), Green-winged Teal (Angus), Ring-necked Duck (Dorset), Surf Scoter (Lothian), Kumlien's Gull (Shetland), six Glossy Ibises and seven migrant Dotterel.
-  David Campbell, RBA