Saturday 28th February 2009
	Lingering rarities included the Snowy Owl in Cornwall, Penduline Tit in Devon, sixteen Cattle Egrets (the largest flock totalled nine in Cornwall and a second bird arrived on the Isle of Man) and four Great White Egrets (including two together in Cambridgeshire). Rare and scarce wildfowl came in the form of Lesser Scaups in Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan, King Eiders in Fife and Sligo (2), Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, Hooded Mergansers in Essex and Dorset, American Wigeons in Gloucestershire, Tipperary and Western Isles, Ring-necked Duck in Dorset, Green-winged Teals in Ayrshire (2), Leicestershire and Forth and Surf Scoters in Devon and Fife.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA