Monday 17th August 2026
	Discoveries today included a Baird's Sandpiper in Pembrokeshire at Dale, and a Scopoli's Shearwater passing Bridges of Ross, County Clare. Continuing rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the Long-tailed Shrike along the Gloucestershire/ Oxfordshire border, the Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Hudsonian Godwit and a Zitting Cisticola both in in Suffolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Lesser Scaup in Fife, two Ferruginous Ducks in Oxfordshire, and White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Wexford and East Yorkshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA