Sunday 14th January 2018
	Rarities today comprised the Stilt Sandpiper still in Dorset, Snowy Owl on the Isles of Scilly, Desert Wheatear in North Yorkshire, Hume's Warbler in Norfolk, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpolls in both Norfolk and Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, King Eiders in Ceredigion and County Sligo, and Lesser Scaups in Cornwall and County Galway. Scarcities included Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Rough-legged Buzzard (Cambridgeshire), Lesser Snow Goose (Aberdeenshire), two Richard's Pipits, three each of American Wigeon and Glossy Ibis, five Ring-necked Ducks, six of both Surf Scoter and Ring-billed Gull, and in England a total of 67 Parrot Crossbills between Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire and Norfolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA