Sunday 22nd February 2015
	Highlight of the day was the reappearance of the female Harlequin Duck in Brora (Highland); the bird was first reported on 17th February. In Aberdeenshire the drake Harlequin Duck remained on the River Don. Elsewhere lingering rarities comprised King Eider (Fife), Lesser Scaup (Ayrshire), White-billed Diver and Blue-winged Teal (Orkney), Ferruginous Duck (Gloucestershire), Laughing Gulls (Co Cork and Wirral), Bonaparte's Gull (Devon), Black-bellied Dipper (East Yorkshire) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Co Dublin). The best of the rest included Glossy Ibis (Nottinghamshire), American Wigeon (West Yorkshire), two Little Buntings, two Cattle Egrets and three Richard's Pipits.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA