Sunday 1st January 2017
	The headline discovery on New Year's Day was a Pine Bunting at Venus Pool NR, Shropshire. Elsewhere the Dusky Thrush (Derbyshire), Blue Rock Thrush (Gloucestershire), Killdeer (Shetland), Stejneger's Stonechat (Kent), Pallid Harrier (East Yorkshire), American Coot (Western Isles), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Desert Wheatear and Bonaparte's Gull (Devon), Eastern Black Redstarts (Cornwall and Cleveland), Pacific Diver and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), King Eider (Co Sligo), Lesser Scaup (Co Galway) and Hooded Merganser (Clyde) all made it into 2017. The best of the rest included two Rose-coloured Starlings and nine Yellow-browed Warblers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA