Friday 9th June 2017
	In Hampshire the Elegant Tern reappeared off Hayling Island this evening, but only for a short time early evening. Elsewhere a Bee-eater was briefly at Lydd (Kent), King Eider (Aberdeenshire), Iberian Chiffchaff (Cheshire), Spotted Sandpiper (Cumbria), Black Duck (Highland), Black-winged Stilt family and Savi's Warbler (Norfolk), Little Bittern and Red-footed Falcon (Somerset) and Red-footed Falcon (Suffolk). The best of the rest included Purple Heron (South Yorkshire), Ortolan Bunting (Orkney), Red-necked Phalarope and Night Heron (Norfolk), Red-necked Phalarope (Lincolnshire), Woodchat Shrike and Icterine Warbler (Highland), Hoopoe (Gloucestershire), Rose-coloured Starling (Glamorgan) and Marsh Warbler (Cleveland).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA