Friday 5th May 2017
	In Cornwall, a Red-throated Pipit and an Alpine Swift were over Pendeen and a Black Kite was at Polgigga. A female Red-footed Falcon was found at Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB, Cambridgeshire, a Western Bonelli's Warbler was at Three Castles Head and a Hudsonian Whimbrel was at Clonakilty, both County Cork and two Black-winged Stilts were at Potter Heigham Marshes, Norfolk. Lingering rarities included the Red-winged Blackbird and White-billed Diver in Orkney, Pallid Harrier in Lancashire, Western Bonelli's Warbler in the Isles of Scilly, Savi's Warbler in Suffolk, single Bonaparte's Gulls in Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Dorset, Black-winged Stilts in the Isles of Scilly (two), Norfolk (two) and Cambridgeshire, King Eider in Highland and White-billed Divers in Moray and Shetland (two). Scarcity highlights included a Red-breasted Flycatcher, a Hoopoe, a Great Grey Shrike a Kentish Plover, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Green-winged Teal, a Lapland Bunting, two Golden Orioles, two Ring-billed Gulls, three Night Herons, four Wrynecks, four Temminck's Stints, ten Dotterel and up to 35 Pomarine Skuas.
-  Will Soar, RBA