Thursday 22nd May 2025
	New rarities today included a Thrush Nightingale at Luccombe Down on the Isle of Wight, Rustic Bunting on Fair Isle, Shetland, Red-rumped Swallow at Pendeen, Cornwall, Black Kite at Bradford Abbas at Dorset, and three new Red-footed Falcons in Kent, Leicestershire, and Sussex. Elsewhere continuing rarities comprised the Hudsonian Godwit in Hampshire, White-winged Scoter in Fife, American Black Tern in Northumberland, Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, and Great Reed Warblers in both Cambridgeshire and East Yorkshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA