Tuesday 18th July 2017
	The highlight of the day was a Caspian Tern in West Yorkshire that was mobile between Swillington Ings and Fairburn Ings for much of the day. In Lincolnshire a juvenile Broad-billed Sandpiper was seen briefly on The Wash at Gibraltar Point. Rarities elsewhere comrpised the Marsh Sandpiper, Bonaparte's Gull and four Black-winged Stilts all still in Kent, King Eider still in Ceredigion and the flock of four Bee-eaters in Nottinghamshire, but the Amur Falcon could not be found in Cornwall at St Buryan. Scarcities included Golden Oriole (Gloucestershire), Glossy Ibis (Suffolk), two each of Rose-coloured Starling, Pectoral Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint and Great Shearwater, and a total of seven Cattle Egrets.
-  Chris Batty, RBA