Saturday 21st October 2017
	New discoveries today included an Olive-backed Pipit at Spurn, Yorkshire, a Tawny Pipit at Mousehole, Cornwall, a Red-footed Falcon at Kessingland, Suffolk, a Lesser Scaup at Tittesworth, Staffordshire, a White-billed Diver at Winterton, Norfolk and a White-rumped Sandpiper at Lough Swilly, County Donegal. Lingering rarities still present today included Rock Thrush in Gwent, Grey-cheeked Thrush and Rustic Bunting in County Cork, Steppe Grey Shrike and White-winged Scoter in Shetland, Bee-eater in Northumberland, Stilt Sandpiper and Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset, Wilson's Phalarope in Kent, single Long-billed Dowitchers in Merseyside and Kent, single White-rumped Sandpipers in Yorkshire and County Wexford, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, Red-breasted Goose in Aberdeenshire and Ferruginous Duck in Forth. Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, a Short-toed Lark, a Shorelark, a Wryneck, a Common Rosefinch, two Little Buntings, two Great Grey Shrikes, three Pallas's Warblers, a Rough-legged Buzzard, a Green-winged Teal, two Ring-necked Ducks, three American Wigeon, three Snow Geese, two Glossy Ibises, a Great Shearwater, four Sabine's Gulls, three American Golden Plovers, a Red-necked Phalarope, 17 Grey Phalaropes, 56 Leach's Petrels, six Long-tailed Skuas and 20 Pomarine Skuas.
-  Will Soar, RBA