Friday 3rd November 2017
	New discoveries today included a Dusky Warbler at Sandwich Bay, Kent and an Olive-backed Pipit at Trevose Head, Cornwall. Lingering rarities included the Rock Thrush in Gwent, Lesser Yellowlegs in Warwickshire, single Long-billed Dowitchers in Kent, Lincolnshire, Merseyside and County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpipers in County Derry and County Wexford (two), White-billed Diver in Norfolk, Lesser Scaup in Hampshire and King Eider in Highland. The best of the rest included a Red-breasted Flycatcher, a Barred Warbler, a Wryneck, a Common Rosefinch, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Dotterel, a Glossy Ibis, a Long-tailed Skua, a Pomarine Skua, a Glaucous Gull, a Todd's Canada Goose, two Pallas's Warblers, two Rose-coloured Starlings, two Little Buntings, two Shorelarks, two American Golden Plovers, two Ring-necked Ducks, two Black Brants, two Iceland Gulls, three American Wigeon, four Richard's Pipits, four Great Grey Shrikes, five Lapland Buntings and seven Little Auks.
-  Will Soar, RBA