Sunday 23rd July 2017
	New discoveries today included a White-rumped Sandpiper on West Burra, Shetland, a Wilson's Petrel past Cape Cornwall, Cornwall and a Black Kite over Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire. Lingering rarities included the American White-winged Scoter in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Marsh Sandpiper, ten Black-winged Stilts and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, six Black-winged Stilts in Norfolk and four in Cambridgeshire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Yorkshire, Two-barred Crossbill in Shetland and five Bee-eaters in Nottinghamshire. The best of the rest were a Short-toed Lark, a Hoopoe, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Purple Heron, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Honey Buzzard, two Pectoral Sandpipers, five Cattle Egrets, two Long-tailed Skuas, a Pomarine Skua, eight Roseate Terns, nine Great Shearwaters and 23 Cory's Shearwaters.
-  Will Soar, RBA