Tuesday 24th July 2012
	Headline rarities included a brief Terek Sandpiper at Shoreham (West Sussex), White-rumped Sandpipers at Cley (Norfolk) and Frampton Marsh RSPB (Lincolnshire), Long-billed Dowitcher at Slimbridge WWT (Gloucestershire) and both Iberian Chiffchaff and Ferruginous Duck in Somerset. On Orkney the Western Bonelli's Warbler reappeared on North Ronaldsay, having last been seen there on 2nd July. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling in Co Waterford, Pectoral Sandpipers in Northumberland and Co Antrim and Temminck's Stint in Norfolk.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA