Monday 29th May 2017
	The rarest bird of the day was a Great Snipe, which was flushed from a path at Ynyslas, Ceredigion mid morning, and was seen again in a horse field there mid afternoon. This would be the fourth individual for the county, the last being one shot in 1947. Other new discoveries included single Greenish Warblers at Blakeney, Norfolk and Calf of Man, Isle of Man, eight Bee-eaters over Birling Gap, East Sussex, a Red-footed Falcon on The Lizard, Cornwall and single Black Kites over Lydd, Kent and Westfield, East Sussex. Lingering rarities included the Little Bittern and Red-footed Falcon in Somerset, Red-rumped Swallow in Scilly, Greenish Warbler in County Wexford, single Savi's Warblers in Norfolk and Suffolk and Spotted Sandpiper in Cumbria.
-  Will Soar, RBA