Sunday 15th October 2017
	Today's new discoveries included a Short-toed Treecreeper in Kent, an isabelline shrike species on Anglesey, Rustic Bunting in Co Cork, Radde's Warbler in Dorset, Dusky Warbler in Kent, two Bee-eaters in Northumberland and Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll. On Isles of Scilly the Western Orphean Warbler and Isabelline Wheatear both lingered, along with a Spotted Crake, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Bunting and American Golden Plover. The Shetland Isles hosted Steppe Grey Shrike, Black-headed Bunting, Red-throated Pipit, Thrush Nightingale, four Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls, two Coues's Arctic Redpolls, Surf Scoter, Corncrake, Bluethroat, Barred Warbler, Richard's Pipit and Common Rosefinch. Elsewhere lingering rarities included Rock Thrush (Gwent), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Northumberland), Long-billed Dowitchers (Lancashire, Co Wexford and Kent), Wilson's Phalarope (Kent), Arctic Warbler (East Yorkshire), Lesser Yellowlegs and Stilt and Spotted Sandpipers (Dorset), Semipalmated Plover and Blackpoll Warbler (Co Mayo), Forster's Tern (Co Louth) and Semipalmated Sandpiper (Co Cork).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA