Tuesday 8th August 2017
	A Long-billed Dowitcher was found at Oare Marshes KWT, Kent, today, joining the summering Bonaparte's Gull, and a White-rumped Sandpiper was a new arrival in County Galway, at Ballyconneely. Other lingering rarities included the American White-winged Scoter in Aberdeenshire, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Baird's Sandpiper in Norfolk, White-rumped Sandpiper in Northumberland, six Bee-eaters in Leicestershire, King Eider in Ceredigion, five Black-winged Stilts in Essex and a Wilson's Petrel from the Scilly pelagic. Scarcity highlights included a Spotted Crake, a White-winged Black Tern, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Surf Scoter, an Iceland Gull, an American Night Heron, two Temminck's Stints, four Glossy Ibises, 56 Cory's Shearwaters and 67 Great Shearwaters.
-  Will Soar, RBA