Thursday 31st August 2017
	New discoveries included a Semipalmated Sandpiper and a couple of Baird's Sandpipers at Tacumshin (Co Wexford), a flyby Fea's/Desertas Petrel at Loop Head (Co Clare) and a flyover Citrine Wagtail at Spurn (East Yorkshire). The Pacific Diver (Co Dublin), Laughing Gull (Co Sligo), Greenish Warbler (East Yorkshire), Long-billed Dowitcher and Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Lincolnshire) all lingered whilst Wilson's Petrels were logged off Isles of Scilly (5) and Co Clare (3). The best of the rest included Common Rosefinch (Shetland), Dotterel (Kent), Purple Heron (Lancashire), American Wigeon (Leicestershire), Barred Warbler (Orkney), Bluethroat (Ceredigion/Pembrokeshire), Woodchat Shrike (Gloucestershire), American Golden Plover (Co Derry), Rose-coloured Starling (Highland), American Night Heron (Shropshire), at least two Honey Buzzards, three Red-necked Phalaropes, four Wrynecks, four Lapland Buntings and at least 22 Pectoral Sandpipers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA