Friday 19th January 2018
	Two White-billed Divers were discovered in Shetland today, one off Kirkabister and one in Mousa Sound, whilst news of three Coues's Arctic Redpolls present at Kelling, Norfolk for at least four days was released. Other lingering rarities included the Stilt Sandpiper in Dorset, Pacific Diver in County Cork, Pied-billed Grebe and King Eider in Shetland, Hume's Warbler in Norfolk, Desert Wheatear in Yorkshire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, King Eider in Ceredigion and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. Scarcity highlights included a Bluethroat, a Little Bunting, a Lapland Bunting, two Richard's Pipits, two Great Grey Shrikes, nine Shorelarks, 19 Waxwings, 29 Parrot Crossbills, a Rough-legged Buzzard, five Tundra Bean Geese, a Surf Scoter, two American Wigeon, two Green-winged Teal, five Glossy Ibises, a Lesser Snow Goose, a Kumlien's Gull, four Ring-billed Gulls, 30 Glaucous Gulls and 36 Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA