Monday 2nd March 2009
	Rarity headlines included the Snowy Owl still in Cornwall, Penduline Tits in Devon and Norfolk (2), Lesser Scaups in both Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire, Great White Egrets in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire and Suffolk and the Hooded Merganser remained in Dorset. Cattle Egret reports totaled twenty birds in eight counties comprising seven in County Cork, five in Devon, three in Cornwall and singles in Norfolk and Wiltshire and on the Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. Scarcities included eight each of Ring-billed Gull and Great Grey Shrike, seven Caspian Gulls, three each of Black Brant and Green-winged Teal, two each of American Wigeon and Rough-legged Buzzard and singles of Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Snow Goose and Lapland Bunting.
-  Chris Batty, RBA