Wednesday 10th January 2018
	Lingering rarities comprised Hume's Warbler and at least four Coues's Arctic Redpolls (Norfolk), Snowy Owl (Isles of Scilly), King Eider (Ceredigion), Lesser Scaup (Cornwall), Penduline Tit (Gloucestershire), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent) and Desert Wheatear (North Yorkshire). The best of the scarcities included Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Rough-legged Buzzard (Cambridgeshire), two Yellow-browed Warblers, three Richard's Pipits, three Glossy Ibises, five American Wigeons, ten Parrot Crossbills, at least ten Waxwings and 21 Shorelarks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA