Thursday 11th January 2007
	The first-winter drake Falcated Duck and Cattle Egret both remained in Devon, at Exminster Marshes RSPB and Otterton respectively. In Hampshire the Great White Egret reappeared at Blashford Lakes HWT and in Scotland the Bonaparte's Gull in Angus, Snowy Owl on Lewis and adult drake Barrow's Goldeneye in Forth were all still available. Across the Irish Sea, the dowitcher species, probably a Short-billed Dowitcher, was still at Dundalk Docks, Co Louth, whilst the first-winter Bonaparte's Gull continued to show well at Whitehead, Co Antrim.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA