Tuesday 8th December 2009
	In Orkney a grey morph Gyr flew in off the sea near Stromness, Mainland this morning. Elsewhere lingering rarities included Brown Shrike in Surrey, Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Spotted Sandpipers in Essex, Hampshire and Devon, Baird's Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, Ferruginous Ducks in West Yorkshire and Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan and King Eider in Moray. Glossy Ibises lingered in Somerset (3) and Kent (2), three Cattle Egrets were in Somerset and Great White Egrets remained in Fife, Norfolk and Kent. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starlings in Cumbria and Oxfordshire, Yellow-browed Warbler in Glamorgan and Ring-necked Duck in Ceredigion.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA