Sunday 31st December 2017
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of an adult Ross's Gull in Northumberland at Longhoughton Steel late in the afternoon; the ninth record for the county. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Desert Wheatear still in North Yorkshire, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, King Eider in Ceredigion, and Lesser Scaups in both Cornwall and Somerset. Scarcities included Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Rough-legged Buzzard (Kent), two each of both Glossy Ibis and Surf Scoter, three of American Wigeon and Ring-billed Gull, and in England a total of 22 Parrot Crossbills split between Berkshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA