Wednesday 14th June 2023
	The highlight of the day was a Little Crake singing in Cambridgeshire at Ouse Fen, whilst discoveries elsewhere comprised a Citrine Wagtail in London at Barnes, a Gull-billed Tern in Hampshire briefly at Inchmery, another Great Reed Warbler on the Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, and Blyth's Reed Warblers in Norfolk at Holme and the Shetland Isles at Scatsta. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Least Tern still in County Louth, Caspian Tern again in County Durham, Great Reed Warblers still singing in Cleveland and Norfolk, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Bee-eaters in Norfolk (3) and Suffolk (2), and Black-winged Stilts in Gloucestershire, Kent (2), Lincolnshire, Norfolk (2), and South Yorkshire (2). Scarcities included Icterine Warbler (Highland), White-spotted Bluethroat (Gloucestershire), Rose-coloured Starling (Nottinghamshire), Hoopoe (County Dublin), Green-winged Teal (Argyll), two each of Woodchat Shrike and Common Rosefinch, three Purple Herons, and five each of Marsh Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, and Night Heron.
-  Chris Batty, RBA