Friday 17th July 2015
	Lingering rarities seen today included the Least Sandpiper in the Isles of Scilly, Hudsonian Whimbrel in West Sussex, Greater Yellowlegs in Hampshire, Gull-billed Tern in Devon, Red-footed Falcon in Staffordshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. Scarcity highlights were a Spotted Crake, a Purple Heron, a Surf Scoter, an American Wigeon, a Temminck's Stint, a Sabine's Gull, a Long-tailed Skua, a Great Shearwater, two Cory's Shearwaters and five Pomarine Skuas.
-  Will Soar, RBA