Wednesday 13th September 2017
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of  a Semipalmated Plover at Achill Island (Co Mayo), possibly the same bird which frequented the site from 2nd-14th October 2016. Elsewhere American waders included Least, Stilt and Baird's Sandpipers in Dorset, Semipalmated Sandpipers in Co Kerry, Western Isles and Isles of Scilly, Long-billed Dowitchers in Kent and East Yorkshire, White-rumped Sandpiper (Co Kerry) Baird's Sandpiper in Moray, Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus, three American Golden Plovers, five Buff-breasted Sandpipers and seven Pectoral Sandpipers. The American Redstart lingered on Barra (Western Isles), whilst Citrine Wagtail (Suffolk) and Arctic Warbler (Shetland) also remained in situ. Seawatching in Cornwall produced a Wilson's Petrel and a Gull-billed Tern. The best of the rest included American Night Heron (Shropshire), Hoopoe (Dorset), Spotted Crake (Ayrshire), Red-backed Shrike (Aberdeenshire), Purple Heron (Glamorgan), Common Rosefinch (Shetland), White-winged Black Tern (Hertfordshire), two each of Ortolan Buntings, Barred Warblers, three Wrynecks and six Yellow-browed Warblers. Excellent west coast seawatching produced many Leach's Petrels along with smaller numbers of Sabine's Gulls, Long-tailed Skuas and Grey Phalaropes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA