Friday 19th August 2016
	Seabirds were the feature of the day in south-west England and Ireland, with the headline bird being a Black-browed Albatross past Prawle Point, Devon. Two Fea's or Zino's Petrels flew past Galley Head, County Cork, with totals of 544 Cory's Shearwaters, 461 Great Shearwaters, 132 Balearic Shearwaters, five Pomarine Skuas, two Long-tailed Skuas, a Leach's Petrel and a Grey Phalarope also logged. Other new discoveries today included single Greenish Warblers at Sands of Forvie NNR, Aberdeenshire and on Fair Isle, Shetland, and single Lesser Yellowlegs' at Tacumshin, County Wexford and Black Rock, County Kerry. Lingering rarities included the Least Sandpiper in County Clare, Hudsonian Whimbrel and Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall, Bee-eater in Suffolk, Greenish Warbler in Yorkshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper in the Western Isles, single Spotted Sandpipers in Lothian and Argyll and White-rumped Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire. A small east coast fall produced a Barred Warbler, a Corncrake, two Icterine Warblers, three Wrynecks and six Red-backed Shrikes, whilst other scarcities seen today included a Ortolan Bunting, a Spotted Crake, a Pectoral Sandpiper, another Icterine Warbler, another two Wrynecks, a Honey Buzzard, three Cattle Egrets and six Glossy Ibises.
-  Will Soar, RBA