Thursday 28th April 2022
	New discoveries today included single Black Kites over Gifford, Lothian, Culver Down, Isle of Wight, Catsfield, Sussex and Langton Matravers, Dorset, a Subalpine Warbler species on St Martin's, Scilly (with the lingering bird at Spurn, Yorkshire being confirmed as a Western Subalpine Warbler), single Red-rumped Swallows at Pendeen, Cornwall and on St Mary's, Scilly, a Black-winged Stilt at Welney, Norfolk and a White-billed Diver off Fair Isle, Shetland. Other lingering rarities seen today included the Black-browed Albatross in Yorkshire, Ross's Gull in County Galway, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll in Shetland, Dusky Warbler and Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, Blue-winged Teals in Cambridgeshire and County Wexford, King Eider in Lothian, Red-rumped Swallows in Sussex and Lincolnshire, Pallid Harrier in Aberdeenshire and White-billed Diver in Moray. Scarcity highlights included a Bluethroat, a Woodchat Shrike, two Serins, two Wrynecks, four Hoopoes, a Temminck's Stint, six Dotterel, a Purple Heron, 14 Glossy Ibises, a Green-winged Teal, an American Wigeon, two Ring-necked Ducks, two Surf Scoters, a Tundra Bean Goose, a Black Brant, up to 22 Pomarine Skuas and five Glaucous Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA