Tuesday 24th October 2017
	The highlight of the day was a flyby Pallid Swift in North Yorkshire at Hunmanby Gap whilst a Red-throated Pipit flew over Berkeley Shore in Gloucestershire. In County Kerry the Black Scoter returned to Rossbeigh for the fourth consecutive winter whilst nearby White-rumped Sandpipers were new at both Carrahane Strand and Black Rock Strand. On the Shetland Isles seven Arctic Redpolls were logged whilst the Steppe Grey Shrike remained on Whalsay and an Eastern Stonechat species was on Mainland at Sandwick. Around the islands were Surf Scoter, Barred Warbler and two each of Shorelark and Great Grey Shrike all recorded. Further lingering rarities comprised the Rock Thrush still in Gwent, Olive-backed Pipit in Pembrokeshire, Eastern Stonechat species on the Orkney Isles, Stilt Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs and Lesser Scaup in Dorset, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Clare and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Northumberland. Significant others included Red-breasted Flycatcher (Merseyside), Barred Warbler (Aberdeenshire), Little Bunting (Isles of Scilly), Short-toed Lark, Rose-coloured Starling and Wryneck (all Cornwall), American Wigeon (Argyll and Northumberland), American Golden Plover (County Kerry and Western Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Kerry and South Yorkshire).
-  Chris Batty, RBA