Thursday 14th September 2017
	New rarities included a Baird's Sandpiper present in West Yorkshire for its second day, a flyover Tawny Pipit in Dorset and a report of a Pallid Swift in Kent. Elsewhere the American Redstart (Western Isles), Least and Stilt Sandpipers (Dorset), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Isles of Scilly), Citrine Wagtail (Suffolk), White-billed Diver (Shetland), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent), Semipalmated Plover and Snowy Owl (Co Mayo), Baird's Sandpipers (Co Cork, Moray and Dorset) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Angus) all lingered. The best of the rest included Barred Warbler (East Yorkshire), Spotted Crake (Ayrshire), American Wigeon (Leicestershire), Purple Heron (Lancashire), Woodchat Shrike (Gloucestershire), White-winged Black Tern (Hertfordshire), Hoopoe (Dorset), Short-toed Lark (Lothian), Common Rosefinch (Shetland), Honey Buzzard (Suffolk), two each of American Golden Plover, Lesser Snow Goose, Red-backed Shrike and Ortolan Bunting, four each of Red-necked Phalarope, Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Wryneck, five Yellow-browed Warblers and seven Pectoral Sandpipers. Excellent west coast seawatching again produced multiple Long-tailed Skuas, Sabine's Gulls, Grey Phalaropes and Leach's Petrels.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA