Friday 29th December 2017
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Killdeer on Isles of Scilly. Initially present in a chicken field near the airport on St Mary's, the plover was later seen at Porth Minack, before it flew north over Old Town late in the day. Elsewhere. lingering rarities included Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Suffolk), Desert Wheatear (North Yorkshire), Penduline Tit (Gloucestershire) and Lesser Scaup (Cornwall). The best of the rest included a Little Bunting (Cornwall), Waxwing (Cleveland), Rough-legged Buzzards (Cambridgeshire and North Yorkshire), Glossy Ibises (Co Galway and Co Cork [5]) and Temminck's Stint (West Sussex).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA