Saturday 22nd April 2017
	New discoveries included a brief Tawny Pipit (Hampshire), Red-footed Falcon (Cornwall), Red-rumped Swallow and Subalpine Warbler (Dorset), Little Bittern (Isles of Scilly), Bonaparte's Gull (Essex), Lesser Yellowlegs (Kent), White-billed Diver (Moray) and Little Bittern (Isles of Scilly). Lingering rarities included Squacco Heron (Co Kerry), Long-billed Dowitchers (Co Wexford and Orkney), Alpine Swift (Co Wicklow), Bonaparte's Gulls (Hampshire and Oxfordshire), trios of Black-winged Stilts in Essex and Gloucestershire, King Eider (Highland), Savi's Warblers (Norfolk and Suffolk) and White-billed Diver (Orkney). The best of the rest included at Wryneck (Suffolk), Night Heron (Shropshire), Serin (Dorset), Kentish Plover (Dorset), at least one Purple Heron, two White-tailed Eagles and up to three Hoopoes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA