Friday 12th January 2018
	New discoveries included a Stilt Sandpiper at Christchurch Harbour (Dorset - presumably the bird last seen on Brownsea Island on 28th December last year) and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Orkney. The Snowy Owl (Isles of Scilly), Hume's Warbler (Norfolk), Desert Wheatear (North Yorkshire), Coues's Arctic Redpolls (Norfolk [2] and Suffolk), Long-billed Dowitcher (Kent) and Penduline Tit (Gloucestershire) all lingered. The best of the rest included Richard's Pipit (Gloucestershire), Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Rough-legged Buzzard (Cambridgeshire), 15 Parrot Crossbills (Norfolk), three American Wigeons and six Glossy Ibises.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA