Tuesday 25th April 2017
	The highlight of the day was a Red-footed Falcon in Kent at Grove Ferry. Elsewhere rarities comprised the Little Bittern still on the Isles of Scilly, Long-billed Dowitcher on the Orkney Isles, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, territorial Savi's Warblers in both Norfolk and Suffolk, Black-winged Sitlts in Cambridgeshire (2) and the Isles of Scilly (2), and Bonaparte's Gulls in Essex, Hampshire and Oxfordshire. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Isles of Scilly), Bluethroat (East Sussex), Hoopoe (County Durham), Dotterel (Conwy), Ring-necked Duck (Kent), two each of both Ring-billed Gull and Great Grey Shrike, four Night Herons, 20 Lapland Buntings, 22 Shorelarks and a total of 39 Cattle Egrets.
-  Chris Batty, RBA