Monday 20th January 2014
	Today's rarities included American Coot (Highland), two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers (Kent), Long-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs and Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire), Lesser Scaup (Western Isles, Glamorgan and Cornwall), Bonaparte's Gull (Devon), 18 Two-barred Crossbills (15 in Gloucestershire and 3 in Shropshire) and American Buff-bellied Pipit (Cheshire). In Ireland the Pacific Diver (Co Tyrone), Ivory Gull and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull (Co Wexford), Forster's Tern and King Eider (Co Mayo), Laughing Gull (Co Cork) and Lesser Scaup (Co Galway) were all logged. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Isles of Scilly), Cattle Egret and Yellow-browed Warbler (Devon), five Parrot Crossbills and 16 Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA