Wednesday 17th August 2022
	Main highlight of the day was the discovering of a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in County Cork at Clogheen Marsh, elsewhere Wilson’s Petrels were recorded off Cornwall and County Galway. Lingering rarities included the Turkestan Shrike in Yorkshire, four Black-winged Stilts in Cheshire, Squacco Heron in Sussex, eight Bee-eaters in Norfolk, Ferruginous Ducks in Northamptonshire, King Eider on Shetland. Scarcity highlights included 2 Barred Warblers, 2 Wrynecks, 5 Spotted Crakes, a Purple Heron, an American Golden Plover, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Dotterels, 8 Sabine's Gulls, 9 Long-tailed Skuas, 16 Pomarine Skuas, 4 Cory's Shearwaters and 12 Great Shearwaters.
-  Toby Carter, RBA