Sunday 19th January 2014
	In Ireland a Pacific Diver (Co Tyrone), King Eiders (Co Mayo and Co Cork), Laughing Gull (Co Cork), Forster's Tern, Spotted Sandpiper and Black Duck (Co Mayo) and Ivory Gull and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull (Co Wexford) were all logged today, whilst a Gyr was in Co Kerry yesterday. Elsewhere lingering rarities included American Coot (Highland), American Buff-bellied Pipit (Cheshire), Lesser Scaup (Staffordshire, Glamorgan and Cornwall), two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers (Kent), Bonaparte's Gull and White-billed Diver (Devon), Lesser Yellowlegs (Hampshire), at least 18 Two-barred Crossbills (10+ in Gloucestershire, 7 in South Yorkshire and a single bird in Shropshire), Thayer's Gull (Glamorgan), Marsh Sandpiper (Western Isles) and King Eider (Lothian). The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Isles of Scilly), at least two Yellow-browed Warblers, 17 Glossy Ibises and 26 Parrot Crossbills.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA