Monday 25th December 2017
	Rarities today comprised the Desert Wheatear still in North Yorkshire, Penduline Tit still in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, a White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles and a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll discovered on Unst, Shetland Isles Scarcities included American Wigeon (Devon), Surf Scoter (County Clare), Ring-necked Duck (County Kerry), Ring-billed Gull and three Glossy Ibises (all in County Cork), and in England nine Parrot Crossbills between Berkshire, Derbyshire and Hertfordshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA