Honourable mentions: part one

Killdeer, Lundy, Devon, 16 March; Short-toed Treecreeper, Dungeness, Devon, 17 March; Hudsonian Whimbrel, Dunnet Bay, Highland, 2 May; White-crowned Sparrow, Fetlar, Shetland, 15 May; Solitary Sandpiper, St Mary’s, Scilly, 18 May; Little Swift, Potteric Carr, South Yorkshire, 26 May; Eurasian Scops Owl, Nanjizal Valley, Cornwall, 28 May; Calandra Lark, Greatham Creek, Cleveland, 31 May; Moltoni’s Warbler, Lerwick, Mainland, Shetland, 17 June; Calandra Lark, Fair Isle, Shetland, 22 June; Greater Sand Plover, Tyninghame

Bay, Lothian, 27 June; Bridled Tern, Lundy, Devon, 27 August; Swainson’s Thrush, Birsay, Mainland, Orkney, 17 September; Upland Sandpiper, Inishbofin, Co Galway, 30 September; Swainson’s Thrush, Dursey Island, Co Cork, 1 October; Steppe Grey Shrike, Benacre, Suffolk, 4 October; Swainson’s Thrush, St Mary’s, Scilly, 7 October.