Wednesday 24th August 2016
	Highlight of the day was the continued presence of the Royal Tern in Co Kerry, whilst an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull visited Stanwick Gravel Pits (Northamptonshire), and the American White-winged Scoter (Aberdeenshire), Least Sandpiper (Co Clare), Lesser Yellowlegs (Essex and Co Dublin), Forster's Tern (Co Louth), Dalmatian Pelican and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), White-rumped Sandpiper (Northumberland) and Greenish Warbler (Shetland) all lingered. The best of the rest included Serin (Suffolk), Marsh Warbler (Shetland), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), Hoopoe (Dorset), Common Rosefinch (Shetland), two Ortolan Buntings, two Barred Warblers, three Melodious Warblers (all on Bardsey Island, Gwynedd, where two Icterine Warblers were also located), three Temminck's Stints, four Icterine Warblers (including the aforementioned Bardsey birds),  four Red-backed Shrikes and nine Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA