Friday 19th May 2023
	New discoveries today consisted of a Semipalmated Plover at Tacumshin in County Wexford, Ferruginous Duck at Colwick in Nottinghamshire, Arctic Redpoll on Westray in Orkney, Caspian Tern at Pegwell Bay in Kent, Greater Yellowlegs at Ardarorch in Highland, Great Reed Warbler at Lound in Nottinghamshire, and 27 Bee Eaters in County Mayo, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Lingering rarities today comprised the Caspian Tern in Norfolk, Eastern Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Iberian Chiffchaff in Gloucestershire, Pallid Harrier in Shropshire, Forster's Tern in Dorset, 4 Black-winged Stilts in Kent and two in Suffolk, Kentish Plover in Essex, Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, Black Duck in County Mayo, Great Reed Warbler in Norfolk, and Western Subalpine Warbler in Shetland. Scarcities included a Night Heron, Hoopoe, Dotterel, 17 Temminck's Stints, Honey Buzzard, three Glaucous Gulls, five Glossy Ibises, two Balearic Shearwater, three Roseate Tern, American Golden Plover, two Montagu's Harriers, White-winged Black Tern, two Red-backed Shrikes, Pomarine Skua, Bluethroat, Tundra Bean Goose, American Wigeon, and a Ring-necked Duck.
-  Ben Clark, RBA