Monday 9th March 2009
	Rarities today included the American Herring Gull again in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull and Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, King Eider in Fife, Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire, Small Canada Goose in Argyll, Black-bellied Dipper in Norfolk and Great White Egret in Clyde. Cattle Egret reported totaled eight birds in five counties comprising four in Devon and singles in Pembrokeshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and the Isle of Man. Scarcities included eleven Great Grey Shrikes, four Ring-billed Gulls, three Ring-necked Ducks, two each of Rough-legged Buzzard, Caspian Gull and Green-winged Teal and singles of American Wigeon, Lesser Snow Goose and Kumlien's Gull.
-  Chris Batty, RBA