Saturday 24th June 2017
	Today's new discoveries included an Alpine Swift at Lodmoor RSPB (Dorset), Red-rumped Swallow at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB (Devon) and a Bufflehead at Clifford Hill Gravel Pits (Northamptonshire), but a metal ring on the latter bird's leg suggests captive origin. Lingering rarities included Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Black-winged Stilts in Cambridgeshire (2) and Norfolk (6) and at least one Savi's Warbler in Suffolk, whilst the best of the rest included a party of three 1st-summer Sabine's Gulls at Belvide Reservoir (Staffordshire), Rose-coloured Starling on Barra (Western Isles), Red-backed Shrike at Thursley Common (Surrey), American Night Heron in Shrewsbury (Shropshire), Night Heron at Ham Wall RSPB (Somerset), Common Rosefinch on Skomer (Pembrokeshire) and Icterine Warbler at Nigg Bay (Highland).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA