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Saturday 9th December 2017  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Stilt Sandpiper on Brownsea Island and Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor, both Dorset, Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Hazlewood Common, Suffolk and Lesser Scaup at Dozmary Pool, Cornwall.

Scarcity highlights included a Barred Warbler, a Waxwing, a Shorelark, two Richard's Pipits, six Lapland Buntings, 49 Parrot Crossbills, two Ring-necked Ducks, two Green-winged Teals, three American Wigeon, a Temminck's Stint, an American Golden Plover, a Grey Phalarope, two Glossy Ibises, seven Little Auks, a Ring-billed Gull, 11 Iceland Gulls and 21 Glaucous Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA