Turnabout is fair play, they say, and with a European Golden-Plover in Maine, it’s also been a big few days in Britain and Ireland, with a number of familiar North American vagrants to dazzle our trans-Atlantic friends.

James Lidster is now on Scilly, where two Red-eyed Vireos and a Blackpoll Warbler–all alive–have followed the discovery of the corpse of a Common Nighthawk. Bryan Bland will be joining James out there soon, and it’s extremely unlikely that anything, anything!, will get past ‘em.

Stuart Elsom was among the lucky crowds enjoying Britain’s first Alder Flycatcher, then took off for Ireland, where the big draws are a Little Blue Heron and a Scarlet Tanager. As Jill Williams observed, it’s a good thing that Stuart legitimately had the day off from work, as he was prominently filmed by the BBC at the scene of the twitch!