Monday 22nd January 2018
	The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Horned Lark in Surrey at Staines Reservoir where it had last been seen on 28th November 2017. Elsewhere a Spotted Sandpiper was identified in Nottinghamshire at Holme Pierrepont. Lingering rarities comprised the Stilt Sandpiper still in Dorset, single Pacific Divers in both County Cork and Cornwall, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpolls in both Norfolk (2) and Suffolk, King Eider in Ceredigion, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. Scarcities included Little Bunting (London), Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), Yellow-browed Warbler (Dorset), two each of both Richard's Pipit and Rough-legged Buzzard, two Ring-necked Ducks, three Glossy Ibises, four of Ring-billed Gull and American Wigeon, and in England a total of 43 Parrot Crossbills between Berkshire, Derbyshire and Norfolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA