Monday 17th April 2017
	Rarity highlights included a Two-barred Crossbill in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gulls in Hampshire and Oxfordshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in Surrey, Red-rumped Swallows in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, North Yorkshire and Suffolk, Squacco Heron in Co Kerry, Black Kite and Long-billed Dowitcher in Co Wexford, Arctic Redpoll on Shetland, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire and Orkney (3), Black Duck in Highland, Black-winged Stilts in Essex (3) and Western Subalpine Warbler in East Yorkshire. The best of the rest included Hoopoe (Co Durham), Woodchat Shrikes (Cornwall and Co Waterford), Kentish Plover (Co Wexford), Roseate Tern (West Sussex), Temminck's Stint (Staffordshire), Little Buntings (Cornwall) and Dotterels (Somerset, Co Sligo and Essex).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA