Saturday 31st December 2016
	Rarity highlights included the Blue Rock Thrush (Gloucestershire), Dusky Thrush (Derbyshire), Black-throated Thrush (Denbighshire), Blyth's Pipit (Somerset), Northern Harrier (Orkney), Black Scoter (Northumberland), Stejneger's Stonechat (Kent), Pallid Harrier (East Yorkshire), Desert Wheatear (Devon), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Pacific Diver, Lesser Scaup and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall) and Eastern Black Redstarts (Cornwall and Cleveland). The best of the rest included Little Bunting (Cornwall), Richard's Pipit (Gloucestershire), Surf Scoter (Leicestershire) and two Rose-coloured Starlings (Dorset and West Sussex).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA