Thursday 27th July 2023
	A Black Stork flew over Wymeswold near Loughborough in Leicestershire and an Alpine Swift flew over Saltfleetby St.Peter in Lincolnshire. Seawatching on west coasts was again notable with a Fea's/Desertas Petrel passing Galley Head in County Cork and 13 Wilson's Petrels seen from the pelagic off Scilly, with other singles in Dingle Bay, County Kerry and off Cape Cornwall, Cornwall. Other seabirds included totals of 582 Cory's Shearwaters, 41 Great Shearwaters, 58 Balearic Shearwaters, 2 Long-tailed Skuas, 9 Pomarine Skuas and a Grey Phalarope. The Forster's Tern was seen again at Arne in Dorset and the Black-winged Pratincole was still to be found at Blanket Nook in County Donegal. Other lingering rarities included both Long-billed Dowitcher and Caspian Tern in Norfolk, King Eider in Lothian, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent and both White-rumped Sandpiper and Gull-billed Tern at Tacumshin in County Wexford. There was a Rose-coloured Starling in Sussex, Pectoral Sandpipers in north Norfolk and Suffolk, an American Golden Plover in Pembrokeshire and a Ring-necked Duck remained in Suffolk.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA