Wednesday 19th April 2023
	European rarities and scarcities today comprised a Gull-billed Tern new in Cheshire at Burton Mere Wetlands, a Subalpine Warbler species in County Cork at Ballynacarriga, Tawny Pipit on the Isles of Scilly, Kentish Plover in Kent, Alpine Swift in Lincolnshire, Purple Heron and Montagu's Harrier in Cornwall, Black Kites in Kent, Leicestershire, and North Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilts in County Cork (6), Devon, and the Isle of Wight, two each of Golden Oriole, Serin, Wryneck, and Hoopoe, three Woodchat Shrikes, six Glossy Ibises, and seven Night Herons. From elsewhere were Ross's Gull and Rough-legged Buzzard in Aberdeenshire, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, Bonaparte's Gull in County Cork, Surf Scoter in Lothian, Green-winged Teal in Cambridgeshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in both Cheshire and Norfolk, four Ring-necked Ducks, and six Shorelarks, Lesser Scaups in Fife, Greater Manchester, and Oxfordshire, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire (2), Orkney, and Moray (13). Incoming spring migrants included 60 Garganey, 28 Ring Ouzels, three Wood Sandpipers, two Blue-headed Wagtails, and a Black Tern.
-  Chris Batty, RBA