Wednesday 16th August 2017
	New discoveries included Western Bonelli's Warbler (East Yorkshire), Aquatic Warbler (East Sussex), Ferruginous Duck (Lancashire) and Caspian Tern (Norfolk). A Barolo Shearwater flew past Hook Head (Co Wexford). Lingering rarities comprised King Eider (Ceredigion), Forster's Tern (Co Louth), Bonaparte's Gulls (Dorset and Kent), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent), White-rumped Sandpiper (Northumberland) and groups of three juvenile Black-winged Stilts Essex and Kent. A couple of Wilson's Petrels flew past Galley Head (Co Cork). The best of the rest included White-winged Black Terns (Devon, Hampshire and West Sussex), Dotterel (South Yorkshire), Night Heron (Norfolk) and Pectoral Sandpipers (Lincolnshire and Leicestershire).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA