Sunday 23rd April 2023
	The highlights of the day were the discovery of a Forster's Tern in Dorset in Poole Harbour, a Gull-billed Tern in Cornwall at Dinham Flats, a Lesser Scaup in County Sligo at Lough Gara, and now two Penduline Tits together in Kent at Oare Marshes. Rarities elsewhere comprised the elusive Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow still in East Sussex, Isabelline Wheatear in Norfolk, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, King Eider in Fife, Black Kite in North Yorkshire, two White-billed Divers in Moray, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cheshire and Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in County Cork and Cornwall, Lesser Scaups in Greater Manchester and Oxfordshire, Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk and Staffordshire, and Black-winged Stilts in County Cork, Glamorgan (2), Herefordshire (2), County Kerry (4). Scarcities included Golden Oriole and Montagu's Harrier (Cornwall), Dotterel (Isles of Scilly), three of Hoopoe and Green-winged Teal, four Woodchat Shrikes, five Ring-necked Ducks, eight Glossy Ibises, and a total of 10 Night Herons. Incoming summer migrants included 56 Garganey, 49 Ring Ouzels, 13 each of Black Tern and Pied Flycatcher, six Wood Sandpipers, four Blue-headed Wagtail, and three Wood Warblers.
-  Chris Batty, RBA