Friday 26th May 2017
	Highlight of the day was a report of a Black-browed Albatross flying east past Orcombe Point (Devon) early in the evening. Elsewhere new discoveries included a flyover Pallid Swift at Spurn (East Yorkshire), Black Kites in Camelford (Cornwall) and Yateley Common (Hampshire), two Red-footed Falcons at King's Fleet (Suffolk), Rustic Bunting on Fair Isle (Shetland), six Bee-eaters at Willop Basin (Kent) and another Bee-eater reported at Islip (Northamptonshire). Lingering rarities comprised Pied-billed Grebe (Argyll), Spotted Sandpiper (Cumbria), Red-footed Falcon (Isles of Scilly), Red-throated Pipit (Shetland) and Little Bittern (Somerset). The most notable scarcities came in the form of a Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), White-winged Black Tern (Leicestershire), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland), Bluethroat and Short-toed Lark (Shetland), Kentish Plover (West Sussex) and Marsh Warbler (Suffolk).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA