Tuesday 30th August 2016
	In Lincolnshire an adult Western Purple Swamphen was discovered at Alkborough Flats. The well-twitched Suffolk bird was last seen at Minsmere RSPB on 5th August - it is likely that today's sightings involves the same individual, having travelled 138 miles to the north west. Elsewhere, rarity sightings included Baird's Sandpiper (South Yorkshire), Dalmatian Pelican, Semiplamated Sandpiper and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), Greenish Warbler and Booted Warbler (Shetland), Pacific Golden Plover (Argyll), Black Duck (Highland), Red-footed Falcon (Norfolk) and Fea's/Zino's Petrel (Co Kerry). The best of the rest included White-winged Black Tern (Cleveland), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Co Galway), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), sound-recorded Ortolan Bunting (Dorset), Melodious Warbler (Gwynedd), Temminck's Stint (Isles of Scilly), two Pectoral Sandpipers, three Barred Warblers and at least 15 Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA