Friday 20th February 2009
	New discoveries today included a Dark-breasted Barn Owl on the Blyth Estuary, Suffolk and a Great White Egret at Otmoor, Oxfordshire. Lingering rarities comprised the Pacific Diver on the Isles of Scilly (and perhaps another in Cornwall), Snowy Owl in Cornwall, American Herring Gull in Devon, Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, two King Eiders in County Sligo, Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire, Black-bellied Dipper in Norfolk and a Cackling Canada Goose in Dumfries and Galloway. Cattle Egret reports totaled twelve birds in five counties comprising five in Cornwall, four in Devon and singles on the Isle of Man, Norfolk and the Isles of Scilly. Scarcities included six each of Great Grey Shrike and Ring-billed Gull, four Green-winged Teals, two each of Black Brant, Ring-necked Duck and Rough-legged Buzzards and single Snow Goose and Surf Scoter.
-  Chris Batty, RBA