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Saturday 19th December 2015  
  Lingering rarities today included the Red-rumped Swallow and Pallid Harrier in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Northumberland, Spotted Sandpiper in County Cork, Bonaparte's Gull in Orkney and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall.

Scarcities included a Hoopoe, an American Golden Plover, a Dotterel, a Kumlien's Gull, two Great Grey Shrikes, two American Wigeon, two Ring-billed Gulls, two Cattle Egrets, three Glaucous Gulls, three Surf Scoters, four Ring-necked Ducks, four Yellow-browed Warblers, four Rough-legged Buzzards, four Little Auks, five Glossy Ibises, five Green-winged Teals, seven Waxwings, nine Shorelarks and 10 Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA