Wednesday 10th May 2017
	The highlight of the day was a Snowy Owl that briefly joined the Red-winged Blackbird on North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles. Elsewhere, an Eastern Subalpine Warbler was new on the Shetland Isles at Scatness and in Norfolk a Tawny Pipit was found at Weybourne and a Great Reed Warbler at Thetford. Brief encounters included a Subalpine Warbler on the Wirral, Black Kite in London, Red-rumped Swallows in both Dorset and County Durham, and Red-footed Falcons in Norfolk and Suffolk (2). Other rarities today comprised the Pallid Harrier still on territory in Lancashire, Little Bittern on the Isles pf Scilly, Red-footed Falcon in Cambridgeshire, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Hampshire, Savi's Warblers in both Norfolk and Suffolk, White-billed Divers in County Donegal (2), Shetland Isles and Western Isles, and Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire, East Yorkshire (2), Hampshire, London (2) and Norfolk (2). Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Northumberland), Richard's Pipit (Lancashire), Red-spotted Bluethroat, Little Bunting and Grey-headed Wagtail (Shetland Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Derry), Ring-necked Duck and Ring-billed Gull (both Highland), two each of Night Heron, Glossy Ibis and Shorelark, four Temminck's Stints, 15 migrant Dotterel and a total of 16 Cattle Egrets.
-  Chris Batty, RBA