Thursday 9th February 2017
	Lingering rarities included Pine Bunting (North Yorkshire), Red-flanked Bluetail (Glamorgan), Blue Rock Thrush (Gloucestershire), Pacific Diver and Black Scoter (Northumberland), White-billed Diver (Orkney), Killdeer (Shetland), Pallid Harrier (East Yorkshire), Hume's Warbler (Dorset), Bonaparte's Gull (Devon), Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), Eastern Black Redstart (Cleveland) and Hooded Merganser (Clyde). The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (West Sussex), Yellow-browed Warblers (Staffordshire and Co Waterford), Little Buntings (Devon and Hampshire) and two Richard's Pipits (Dorset).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA