Thursday 8th December 2016
	Hot news came in the form of a Slate-coloured Junco in a garden at West Mersea (Essex) this afternoon. Elsewhere raritiy highlights included Forster's Tern (Co Cork), Dusky Thrush (Derbyshire), Desert Wheatears (Devon and East Sussex), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Pallid Harrier (East Yorkshire), Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler (Norfolk), Eastern Black Redstart (Lothian), Isabelline Wheatear (Norfolk), Masked Wagail (Pembrokeshire) and Killdeer (Shetland). The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (West Sussex) and Little Bunting (Norfolk).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA