Thursday 10th August 2017
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of a Thrush Nightingale at Gramborough Hill, Norfolk. The county also continued to host the Baird's Sandpiper at Potter Heigham Marshes. Elsewhere rarities comprised seven Bee-eaters in Leicestershire, White-rumped Sandpipers in Northumberland and Co Wexford, Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and Dorset, Long-billed Dowitcher and five Black-winged Stilts in Kent and Wilson's Petrels from an Isles of Scilly pelagic (2) and off Cape Clear (Co Cork). The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Cambridgeshire), American Night Heron (Shropshire), White-winged Black Tern (Leicestershire) and Melodious Warblers (Cornwall and Kent).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA