Saturday 23rd September 2017
	New discoveries today included a Lesser Yellowlegs at Stanpit Marsh, Dorset and a Fea's/Desertas/Zino's Petrel past Toe Head, County Cork. Lingering rare waders included the Semipalmated Plover in County Mayo, single Spotted Sandpipers in Dorset and Cornwall, single Long-billed Dowitchers in Kent and Lincolnshire and White-rumped Sandpiper in County Kerry. Other lingerers were the Western Bonelli's Warbler in Borders, King Eider in Ceredigion and single Bonaparte's Gulls in Western Isles and Devon. Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, a Hoopoe, a Common Rosefinch, two Marsh Warblers, five Barred Warblers, three Red-backed Shrikes, four Lapland Buntings, seven Wrynecks, a Corncrake, two Spotted Crakes, two Purple Herons, two Honey Buzzards, a Great Shearwater, three Long-tailed Skuas, four Pomarine Skuas, eight Sabine's Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, two American Golden Plovers, five Buff-breasted Sandpipers, five Pectoral Sandpipers, seven Red-necked Phalaropes and 17 Grey Phalaropes.
-  Will Soar, RBA