Tuesday 17th June 2025
	An Eastern Subalpine Warbler was new in on Fair Isle, in the Shetlands, and represented the fourth individual Subalpine Warbler on the island this spring. Elsewhere, Black Kites were reported flying in off the sea at Dover in Kent and over Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. A Caspian Tern was a brief visitor to Abberton Reservoir in Essex and may well have been the bird that was still at Lakenheath in Suffolk in the morning but was not seen subsequently. The Western Sandpiper remained at Maidens in Ayrshire, with other lingering rarities including the Black-winged Pratincole in Shetland, Pacific Golden Plover in Cleveland, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Little Bittern on Scilly, Iberian Chiffchaff in Fife and Great Reed Warblers in both Yorkshire and Fair Isle, Shetland.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA