Saturday 13th May 2017
	The Highlight of the day was a flyby Black-browed Albatross off Bempton Cliffs RSPB (East Yorkshire). Elsewhere new discoveries included Thrush Nightingale and Red-rumped Swallow (Shetland), Black Kite (Co Cork), Spotted Sandpiper (Cumbria), Bee-eaters (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), Red-footed Falcon (Hampshire), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Highland), Red-rumped Swallow (Northumberland), Red-footed Falcon (Norfolk) and two Black-winged Stilts (Norfolk/Suffolk border). Lingering rarities comprised Red-winged Blackbird on Orkney, Black-winged Stilts and Red-footed Falcons in Cambridgeshire and Pembrokeshire, Red-rumped Swallows in Cornwall, Lincolnshire and Orkney, Pallid Harrier in Lancashire, Citrine Wagtail in Northumberland and Savi's Warbler in Norfolk.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA