Sunday 14th May 2023
	Discoveries today included a Squacco Heron in East Sussex at Combe Valley, Great Reed Warblers in Norfolk at both Cantley Marshes and Pensthorpe, Subalpine Warbler species in Devon at Prawle Point, Bee-eater in Suffolk at Southwold, and Lesser Scaups in Dumfries and Galloway at Castle Loch and Highland at St John's Loch. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the White-winged Scoter in Fife, Laughing Gull on the Isles of Scilly, Eastern Subalpine Warbler and Western Subalpine Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Blue-winged Teal in Lincolnshire, Great Reed Warbler in Somerset, Iberian Chiffchaff in East Sussex, Long-billed Dowitcher and two Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk, Red-footed Falcon in Kent, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, and White-billed Divers both the Orkney Isles and Western Isles, but in Moray there was no sign of the Grey-headed Lapwing. Scarcities included White-spotted Bluethroat (Gloucestershire), Ortolan Bunting and Common Rosefinch (East Yorkshire), Ring-billed Gull (Perth and Kinross), Sabine's Gull (Shetland Isles), Surf Scoter (Fife), two Purple Herons, three of both Montagu's Harrier and Pectoral Sandpiper, four of Red-backed Shrike, Hoopoe, and migrant Dotterel, five Night Herons, 13 Long-tailed Skuas, 14 Temminck's Stints, and at least 17 Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA