Tuesday 17th October 2017
	The highlight of the day was a Two-barred Greenish Warbler identified in Dorset at St Aldhelm's Head where it had first been seen briefly on Sunday but suspected to be an Arctic Warbler at that time. New rarities elsewhere included two Red-breasted Geese together in Aberdeenshire at Loch of Skene and a Blyth's Reed Warbler in Cornwall at Nanjizal. On the Isles of Scilly a Radde's Warbler showed well on St Mary's and the Western Orphean Warbler remained on St Agnes with around the archipelago American Golden Plover, Little Bunting, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Spotted Crake and Lapland Bunting all logged. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present elsewhere were the Rock Thrush in Gwent, Black-headed Bunting and Red-throated Pipit together on the Shetland Isles, Arctic Warbler in East Yorkshire, Rustic Bunting in County Cork, Dusky Warbler, Wilson's Phalarope and Long-billed Dowitcher all in Kent, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Spotted Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Ferruginous Duck in Forth, and single Richardson's Cackling Geese in both Argyll and Northumberland. Popular scarcities included Short-toed Lark, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Hoopoe (Cornwall), Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire and West Sussex), Little Bunting (Northumberland), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Dorset), American Golden Plover (Pembrokeshire), American Wigeon (Argyll and Worcestershire).
-  Chris Batty, RBA