Tuesday 30th December 2008
	The highlights of the day were the continued presence of both the Snowy Owl at Zennor, Cornwall and the Gyr on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Other lingering rarities included two Penduline Tits in London, the American Herring Gull in County Galway, King Eider in Fife, Red-breasted Goose and Great White Egret in Hampshire, Lesser Scaups in both Clyde and Glamorgan, Cackling Canada Goose in Dumfries and Gallway, Ross's Goose in Norfolk and Hooded Merganser in Dorset. Seventeen Cattle Egrets comprised five in County Cork, four in Cornwall, three in both County Waterford and the Isles of Scilly and singles in Oxfordshire and Pembrokeshire. Popular scarcities on show were the Night Heron and Rough-legged Buzzard in Kent, single American Wigeons in both Berkshire and Dumfries and Galloway and confiding Ring-billed Gulls in Angus, Cornwall (2), Glamorgan and Hampshire. Waxwing reports totaled 962 birds in 32 counties with maximums of 240 in County Antrim, 90 in Staffordshire, 81 in Northumberland and 60 each in County Donegal, Essex and Nottinghamshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA