Sunday 17th April 2022
	The first Crag Martin for Scilly was confirmed on Bryher mid morning, where it remained until the evening. It was first seen on Tresco on Thursday, where there was a Red-rumped Swallow today. Another Red-rumped Swallow was near Guisborough, Cleveland, with other new discoveries today including a Snowy Owl on Eday, Orkney, Black Kites over Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB, Cheshire, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset and single birds at Dungeness and St Margaret's at Cliffe, both Kent, two Bonaparte's Gulls at South Slob, County Wexford and a Black-winged Stilt at Cors Ddyga RSPB, Anglesey. Lingering rarities included the Belted Kingfisher in Lancashire, Hume's Warblers in Kent and Sussex, Dusky Warblers in Norfolk and London, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Lesser Yellowlegs in Shetland (with another of the latter and a Pacific Golden Plover in Suffolk), Blue-winged Teals in Cambridgeshire and County Wexford, King Eiders in Highland and Lothian, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire and Moray and another Bonaparte's Gull in County Wexford. Scarcity highlights included a Wryneck, a Richard's Pipit, a Great Grey Shrike, a Yellow-browed Warbler, two Serins, four Hoopoes, three Surf Scoters, four Green-winged Teals, 16 Ring-necked Ducks, a Snow Goose, 14 Glossy Ibises, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Kumlien's Gull, six Glaucous Gulls and eight Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA