Sunday 21st August 2016
	New discoveries included a Terek Sandpiper (Co Wexford), White-rumped Sandpiper (Northumberland) and Greenish Warbler (Shetland), whilst Hudsonian Whimbrel and Dalmatian Pelican (Cornwall), Greenish Warblers (East Yorkshire, Shetland and Orkney), Spotted Sandpiper (Lothian), Forster's Tern (Co Louth), Bonaparte's Gull (Kent), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Co Kerry), Least Sandpiper (Co Clare) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Aberdeenshire) all lingered. Seabird highlights comprised Fea's or Zino's Petrels off Cape Clear (Co Cork) and Port Eynon (Glamorgan) and three Wilson's Petrels off Pendeen (Cornwall). Scarcity sightings included White-winged Black Tern (Leicestershire), Pectoral Sandpiper (East Yorkshire), Ring-necked Duck (Orkney), Purple Heron (Oxfordshire), two Spotted Crakes, two American Golden Plovers, two Red-backed Shrikes, four Barred Warblers, five Cattle Egrets, at least six Icterine Warblers and seven Wrynecks. Significant late news related to a Brown Booby, which had been photographed on a trawler off the Co Kerry coastline in recent days.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA