Friday 15th September 2017
	Rarity highlights included the lingering American Redstart (Western Isles), Least and Stilt Sandpipers (Dorset), Red-rumped Swallow (West Sussex), Lesser Yellowlegs (Angus), Baird's Sandpipers (Dorset, Co Sligo and South Yorkshire), Semipalmated Sandpipers (Western Isles and Isles of Scilly), Citrine Wagtail (Suffolk), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent) and Hudsonian Whimbel (Co Sligo). The best of the rest included Ortolan Bunting (Shetland), Spotted Crake (Ayrshire), Purple Heron (Lancashire), White-winged Black Tern (Hertfordshire), Woodchat Shrike (Gloucestershire), Rose-coloured Starling (Cumbria), Hoopoe (Dorset), American Wigeon (Leicestershire), two each of Glossy Ibises and Red-necked Phalaropes, three each of Buff-breasted Sandpiper and American Golden Plover, up to four Wrynecks, four Pectoral Sandpipers and six Yellow-browed Warblers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA