Thursday 11th May 2023
	Rarities discovered today included Great Reed Warblers in Norfolk at Titchwell and Suffolk at Boyton Marshes and on the Shetland Isles a Red-rumped Swallow on Mainland at Pool of Virkie and a White-billed Diver on Yell. Otherwise brief encounters were a Gyr in Highland at Cove, a Caspian Tern in Carmarthenshire at Burry Port, a Pallid Harrier in Suffolk at Orford Ness, and a Bee-eater in Devon at Bull Point. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Stejneger's Scoter in Fife, Slate-coloured Junco in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Laughing Gull in Isles of Scilly, Blue-winged Teal in Lincolnshire, Great Reed Warbler in Somerset, Long-billed Dowitcher and Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Iberian Chiffchaff in East Sussex, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles, and Black-winged Stilts in Lincolnshire (3) and County Wexford. Scarcities inclded American Golden Plover (Anglesey), Red-backed Shrike and Long-tailed Skua (Shetland), Montagu's Harrier (County Antrim), American Wigeon (Fife), Ring-necked Duck (South Yorkshire), two each of Golden Oriole, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dotterel, and Glossy Ibis, five Purple Herons, and a total of six Temminck's Stints.
-  Chris Batty, RBA