Tuesday 5th May 2026
	New rarities today consisted of a Desert Wheatear at Grimston in East Yorkshire, a Red-rumped Swallow at Spurn in East Yorkshire, and a Tawny Pipit at Shingle Street in Suffolk. Rarities included a Kentish Plover in Bedfordshire, a Lesser Kestrel in Cornwall, Spotted Sandpiper in East Sussex, Bonaparte's Gulls in Cornwall, Dorset, and County Donegal, Iberian Chiffchaffs in Suffolk and County Durham, a Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk and Kent, an Elegant Tern in County Galway, and a Lesser Scaup in Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA