Monday 31st July 2017
	Exciting seabirding continued in the southwest with a Wilson's Petrel, four Cory's Shearwaters and three Great Shearwaters passing Cape Clear, County Cork, and in the evening at least seven Wilson's Petrels at sea off the Isles of Scilly alongside 29 Cory's and three Great Shearwaters. Rarities included the Forster's Tern still in County Louth, Two-barred Crossbill on the Shetland Isles, Marsh Sandpiper and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset, five Black-winged Stilts in Norfolk and seven Bee-eaters still at the colony in Nottinghamshire. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (Lincolnshire), Sabine's Gull (Norfolk), Ring-billed Gull (County Galway), Red-backed Shrike (North Yorkshire), a total of 15 Cattle Egrets, and most notably 15 Glossy Ibis (including a flock of 14 in Cornwall).
-  Chris Batty, RBA