Wednesday 6th January 2016
	Rarity highlights included Mourning Dove (Shetland), Glaucous-winged Gull (Co Cork), Pacific Diver, Hudsonian Whimbrel and Lesser Scaup (Cornwall), Greater Yellowlegs (Isle of Wight), Pallid Harrier (Norfolk), Penduline Tits (Hampshire and Kent), Long-billed Dowitcher (Northumberland), Dusky Warbler and Lesser Scaup (Somerset), Cackling Goose (Co Donegal) and Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire). The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Pallas's Warbler (Wirral), Cattle Egret (Somerset), Hoopoe (West Midlands/ Staffordshire), two Richard's Pipits, three Yellow-browed Warblers, three Surf Scoters, four Waxwings, eight Shorelarks, 23 Glossy Ibises and many reports of Little Auks, mainly along the coastlines of eastern Scotland and Northeast England.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA