Wednesday 12th May 2021
	Discoveries today included both Pallid Harrier and Citrine Wagtail on Fair Isle, Shetland Isles, an Alpine Swift in Dorset over Portland and then Weymouth, a Black Kite in Derbyshire at Belper briefly, and a White-billed Diver in Aberdeenshire at Slains. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present comprised Calandra Lark, Rustic Bunting, Hooded Merganser, and White-billed Diver on the Shetland Isles, American Herring Gull in Cornwall, Black Stork in Kent, Whiskered Tern in Dorset, Bonaparte's Gull in Nottinghamshire, Kentish Plover in Northumberland, Lesser Yellowlegs on the Isles of Scilly, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, and Savi's Warblers in Bedfordshire, Carmarthenshire, and North Yorkshire. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (Cambridgeshire), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Cornwall), Little Bunting, Wryneck, and Lapland Bunting (Shetland), Serin (Hampshire), Purple Heron (Kent), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland), Grey-headed Wagtail (Ayrshire), Green-winged Teal (Fife), Long-tailed Skua (Devon), Kumlien's Gull (Leicestershire), two each of both Woodchat Shrike and Montagu's Harrier, three Hoopoes, four Glossy Ibises, four migrant Dotterel, and a total of five Temminck's Stints.
-  Chris Batty, RBA