Thursday 24th December 2015
	Rarities lingering today were the Red-rumped Swallow and Pallid Harrier in Norfolk, Gyr in the Western Isles, Long-billed Dowitcher in Northumberland and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall. Scarcity highlights were a Hoopoe, a Pomarine Skua, an American Wigeon, two Great Grey Shrikes, two Surf Scoters, two Ring-billed Gulls, two Cattle Egrets, three Grey Phalaropes, three Glossy Ibises, three Shorelarks, four Rough-legged Buzzards, six Yellow-browed Warblers, six Iceland Gulls, six Green-winged Teals, seven Ring-necked Ducks, seven Glaucous Gulls and nine Waxwings.
-  Will Soar, RBA