Sunday 21st January 2007
	A busy Sunday produced little in the way of new crowd-pullers, but there were still plenty of long-staying rarities to entertain the January crowds. The most popular attractions included the showy Lesser Yellowlegs at Thornham, Norfolk, Penduline Tit at Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, Spotted Sandpiper at Hayle Estuary, Cornwall and Cattle Egret at Otterton, Devon. Black-eared Kite in Norfolk, Red-breasted Geese in Lincolnshire and Dorset, Ferruginous Ducks in Bedfordshire and Kent, Bonaparte's Gull in Angus, Barrow's Goldeneye in Forth, Great White Egret in Hampshire and two first-winter drake Lesser Scaups on the Western Isles were all still available. Across the Irish Sea, Blue-winged Teal in Co Dublin, Bufflehead in Co Clare, Bonaparte's Gull in Co Antrim and Lesser Scaup in Co Down created the headlines. The description of a thrush, seen for only 2-3 seconds at Forest Farm, Glamorgan, best fitted an Eyebrowed Thrush - finding a Mega in a winter thrush flock is truly the stuff of dreams - if anything more comes of this record, the finder will become very popular indeed!
-  Stuart Piner, RBA