Wednesday 1st March 2017
	Several long-staying rarities made it into March, including Blue Rock Thrush (Gloucestershire), Hume's Warbler and Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Pine Buntings (Kent and North Yorkshire), Eastern Black Redstart (Cleveland), Lesser Scaup (Cornwall), Pacific Diver (Northumberland), American Coot (Western Isles), Richardson's Canada Goose (Argyll) and Northern Harrier (Orkney). The best of the rest included White-billed Diver (Lothian), Little Bunting (Bedfordshire), Bluethroat (Lincolnshire), Rose-coloured Starling (West Sussex) and two Richard's Pipits (Dorset).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA