Tuesday 19th January 2010
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a juvenile American Herring Gull in County Galway at Cleggan. Other rarities today comprised the Black-throated Thrush still in North Yorkshire and the Little Bunting still in Highland. Scarcities included five Great White Egrets, four Balearic Shearwaters, three each of Black Brant and Shorelark, two each of Cattle Egret, Ring-necked Duck, Green-winged Teal and Waxwing and single Surf Scoter, Rough-legged Buzzard, Great Grey Shrike, Waxwing and Black Brant, whilst gull tallies included eight Ring-billed, four each of Glaucous and Caspian and three Iceland.
-  Chris Batty, RBA