Monday 16th February 2015
	Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Harlequin Duck in Aberdeenshire, both Pacific Diver and King Eider in Cornwall, Black Scoters in County Kerry and Northumberland, Laughing Gull on the Wirral, White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, Ferruginous Duck in Gloucestershire, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, and Ross's Goose in Northumberland. Scarcities included Serin (Essex), Shorelark (Cleveland), Glossy Ibis (Cambridgeshire), two each of Little Bunting, Surf Scoter and Cattle Egret, three Richard's Pipits, four Green-winged Teals, five American Wigeons, six Rough-legged Buzzards, eight Great Grey Shrikes, and 12 Waxwings. Notable gull totals were 24 Glaucous, 13 Iceland, nine Ring-billed, five Caspian and three Kumlien's.
-  Chris Batty, RBA