Saturday 8th December 2007
	The Great Blue Heron on Scilly failed to show, leaving the few birders who managed to get to the islands very disheartened. New birds today included a Lesser Scaup in Perth and Kinross at Loch Leven, and a Laughing Gull on Shetland, at Firths Voe. Lingering rarities included the two long staying Desert Wheatears in Norfolk and Yorkshire, six Cattle Egrets in the south west, Great White Egrets in Hampshire and Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, King Eider in Aberdeen, Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire and Bonaparte's Gull in Aberdeen.
-  Will Soar, RBA