The total number of species recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2010 has now risen to 357, with the addition of six new species in the past two weeks -:
1) SQUACCO HERON (very confiding individual in Cornwall);
2) WHITE-TAILED PLOVER (2-day bird at Seaforth NR, Merseyside);
3) RED-THROATED PIPIT (two records, both in the Northern Isles);
4) THRUSH NIGHTINGALE (singing male at Walsey Hills, Cley, Norfolk);
5) Marsh Warbler (several singing males now arriving);
6) WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER (first-summer male on Lewis, Outer Hebrides)