Thursday 18th August 2016
	New discoveries included Greenish Warblers in Norfolk (2), Cumbria and East Yorkshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper on Western Isles and Bee-eater in Suffolk, whilst the Hudsonian Whimbrel and Dalmatian Pelican (Cornwall), Spotted Sandpipers (Lothian and Argyll), Solitary Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper (Co Clare) and American White-winged Scoter and White-rumped Sandpiper (Aberdeenshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included Barred Warbler, Pectoral Sandpiper, Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike and Icterine Warbler (all East Yorkshire), Melodious Warbler (Isles of Scilly), Temminck's Stint (Cleveland), Hoopoe (London), two Purple Herons, three Cattle Egrets, four Wrynecks and five Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA