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Friday 5th January 2018  
  Discoveries today included a Lesser Yellowlegs in Orkney in Evie, Mainland, and a in Norfolk at least one Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Cromer.

Continuing rarities confirmed as still present today were the Snowy Owl in Scilly, Desert Wheatear in North Yorkshire, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, Hooded Merganser in Derbyshire, and Lesser Scaups in Cornwall and Somerset.
-  Chris Batty, RBA