Tuesday 12th September 2017
	New discoveries included an American Buff-bellied Pipit (Co Galway), Lesser Yellowlegs (Cornwall), Red-rumped Swallow (Devon), Bee-eater (East Sussex), Greenish Warbler (Orkney) and Arctic Warbler (Shetland), whilst the American Redstart (Barra, Western Isles), Least, Stilt and Baird's Sandpipers (Dorset), Lesser Yellowlegs (Angus), Semipalmated Sandpipers (Isles of Scilly and Western Isles), Long-billed Dowitchers (East Yorkshire and Kent) and Citrine Wagtail (Suffolk) all lingered. The best of the rest included Purple Heron (Lancashire), American Wigeon (Leicestershire), Kentish Plover (Kent), Woodchat Shrike (Gloucestershire), Common Rosefinch (Co Mayo), Red-necked Phalarope (Cheshire), Hoopoe (Dorset), White-winged Black Tern (Hertfordshire), two each of Red-backed Shrike, Yellow-browed Warblers and American Golden Plovers, six Wrynecks and six Pectoral Sandpipers. West coast seawatching produced more Sabine's Gulls, Leach's Petrels and Grey Phalaropes, whilst a handful of the latter species made their way to inland sites.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA