Friday 26th December 2008
	The headline news related to a male Desert Wheatear at Balnakeil in Highland, present on the beach there for its third day. The King Eider along remained in Scotland, off the Fife coastline. In Glamorgan a Lesser Scaup was discovered at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park and a Lesser Scaup also remained in Nottinghamshire, whilst at least two were at Lough Arrow in Sligo and another was discovered in Co Fermanagh. In Cornwall the Snowy Owl continued sit by the trig point at Sperris Quoit, a Ross's Goose was seen again in East Norfolk, seven Cattle Egrets remained in Pembrokeshire and the Hooded Merganser was still present in Dorset.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA