Friday 22nd April 2022
	New discoveries today included 8 Red-rumped Swallows from Hampshire, Cornwall, Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire, elsewhere a Kentish Plover was found at Rye Harbour in East Sussex, Black Kite over Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset and a Great Spotted Cuckoo in County Durham flew NW over Darlington.  Othwer rarities today were the Pacific Golden Plover still in Suffolk, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, Blue-winged Teal in Cambridgeshire, King Eiders in Highland and Lothian, Black-browed Albatross was in East Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilts were in Merseyside (1) and Norfolk (2), Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll. Scarcities included Temminck's Stint, 2 Dotterel, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, 3 Surf Scoters, 6 Ring-necked Ducks, 6 Iceland Gulls, Glaucous Gull, 6 Hoopoes and a total of 21 Glossy Ibises.
-  Toby Carter, RBA