Sunday 6th March 2022
	In Ireland today rarities comprised the Egyptian Vulture still in County Roscommon, Double-crested Cormorant in County Leitrim, Northern Harrier in County Offaly, Lesser Scaup in County Sligo, and in County Galway Forster's Tern, Ross's Gull, and Lesser Yellowlegs. In Britain the White-tailed Lapwing was still in Lincolnshire, White-winged Scoter and King Eider Lothian, Baikal Teals in both East Yorkshire and Somerset, Ross's Goose in Aberdeenshire, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, Hume's Warbler in East Sussex, three Penduline Tits together in Somerset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lancashire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk, Richardson's Cackling Goose on the Western Isles, White-billed Diver on the Shetland Isles, Ferruginous Duck in Oxfordshire, and Lesser Scaups in Argyll (2) and the Western Isles (3). Incoming spring migrants included Garganey (Staffordshire), Willow Warbler (Cornwall), and seven each of Little Ringed Plover and Sand Martin.
-  Chris Batty, RBA