Friday 19th December 2008
	Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today included the American Buff-bellied Pipit in County Londonderry, two Penduline Tits in London, Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire, Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire, Hooded Merganser in Dorset, Cattle Egrets in both Cornwall and Pembrokeshire and single Great White Egrets in both Hampshire and Somerset. Popular scarcities included the Night Heron in Kent, American Wigeon in Berkshire, Rough-legged Buzzard in Cambridgeshire, Yellow-browed Warbler in Hampshire, Ring-necked Ducks in Ayrshire and Hampshire and confiding Ring-billed Gulls in Angus, Glamorgan and London. Waxwing reports totaled 1,171 in 25 counties with maximums of 455 in West Yorkshire, 162 in Clyde, 120 in Lothian, 81 in Ayrshire and 50 in County Durham.
-  Chris Batty, RBA