Thursday 4th August 2016
	The Least Sandpiper at Seaton, Devon, was briefly joined by a second individual this morning. Elsewhere new discoveries included Spotted Sandpiper at Sutton Bingham Reservoir (Somerset/Dorset), White-rumped Sandpiper at Cley (Norfolk) and a Bee-eater at sea north of Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire). The Western Purple Swamphen (Suffolk), Dalmatian Pelican and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), White-rumped Sandpipers (Angus, Lincolnshire and Co Antrim) and Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) all lingered. Seabird highlights comprised  at least six Wilson's Petrels (at least five from a Scilly pelagic and one off the County Kerry coastline), 31 Cory's Shearwaters and five Great Shearwaters. The best of the rest included two Pectoral Sandpipers (Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA