Friday 24th February 2017
	Lingering rarities comprised Blue Rock Thrush (Gloucestershire), Pine Bunting (North Yorkshire), Pacific Diver (Northumberland), Pallid Harrier (East Yorkshire), Hume's Warbler (Dorset), Desert Wheatear (Devon), Lesser Scaup (Cornwall), King Eiders (Co Sligo and Co Kerry), Bonaparte's Gull (Clyde) and Eastern Black Redstart (Cleveland). The best of the rest included Bluethroat (Lincolnshire), Serin (East Sussex), Rose-coloured Starling (West Sussex), Yellow-browed Warbler and Temminck's Stint (Staffordshire) and two Richard's Pipits (Dorset).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA