Thursday 25th December 2008
	A King Eider was today's headline discovery; a drake was found off the Fife coastline between Earlsferry and West Vow, just to the west of Elie. Elsewhere the Snowy Owl remained in Cornwall, Lesser Scaups were still in Nottinghamshire, Clyde and Sligo and Cattle Egret reports included seven in Pembrokeshire, two in Co Cork and one in Lancashire. In Ayrshire the Lesser Snow Goose was still at Martnaham Loch, the Night Heron remained in Kent and excellent numbers of Waxwings lingered, including flocks of 81 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, 55 near Clackmannan, Forth, 30 in Hessle, East Yorkshire, 25 in Rendlesham, Suffolk, 25 in north Glasgow, Clyde and 24 near Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA