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Friday 4th January 2008  
  Today's highlights comprised, in England the lingering Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Red-breasted Goose in East Sussex, both Lesser Yellowlegs and Great White Egret in Suffolk, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Ross's Goose in Norfolk, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire, Great White Egret in Cambridgeshire and the Coues's Arctic Redpoll or Common Redpoll in the West Midlands.

In Scotland the Red-breasted Goose showed again in Dumfries and Galloway as did the Spotted Sandpiper in Forth, Lesser Scaup on the Western Isles, Bonaparte's Gull in Aberdeenshire and Small Canada Goose in Argyll. In Wales the Spotted Sandpiper remained in Glamorgan.

Cattle Egrets confirmed as present today comprised seventeen in Cornwall, two in both Ceredigion and Devon and singles in Cheshire, Dumfries and Galloway, East Sussex, Gloucestershire and West Sussex. In recent days at least fifteen have been seen in County Cork.
Chris Batty, RBA
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