Monday 18th December 2017
	Today's headline birds came in the form of a Gyr in Co Durham and the reappearance of the Snowy Owl in Cornwall. Lingering rarities included Black Scoter (Co Kerry), Penduline Tit (Gloucestershire), Lesser Scaup (Somerset) and Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Suffolk). The best of the rest included Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Richard's Pipit (Lothian), Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), two Waxwings (Fife), two Glossy Ibises, two Ring-necked Ducks, three American Wigeons and Parrot Crossbills in Berkshire (18), Derbyshire (12), Suffolk (6) and Hertfordshire (3).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA