Wednesday 12th July 2017
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Marsh Sandpiper in Kent at Cliffe Pools where two pairs of Black-winged Stilts currently have a total of seven young. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, King Eider in Ceredigion, Long-billed Dowitcher in Northumberland, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, the family of six Black-winged Stilts in Norfolk and up to five Bee-eaters still in Nottinghamshire. Scarcities included Buff-breasted Sandpiper (East Yorkshire), Red-backed Shrike (Nottinghamshire), Sabine's Gull (inland in North Yorkshire), Pectoral Sandpiper (Lincolnshire), Surf Scoter (Aberdeenshire), Cory's Shearwater (at sea off the Isles of Scilly), Long-tailed Skua (Lothian), Glossy Ibis (Somerset), American Night Heron (Shropshire), two Ring-billed Gulls (together in County Kerry), and a total of 16 Cattle Egrets.
-  Chris Batty, RBA