Sunday 28th January 2018
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a juvenile Thayer's Gull in Hampshire in the afternoon gull rosost at Ibsley Water. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Horned Lark still in Surrey, Snowy Owl on the Isles of Scilly, Pacific Diver in County Cork, Stilt Sandpiper in Dorset, Spotted Sandpiper in Nottinghamshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk (3) and Suffolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon and Ferruginous Duck in Somerset. Scarcities included Little Bunting (London), Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), Richard's Pipit (Gloucestershire), Yellow-browed Warbler (Dorset), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), Lesser Snow Goose (Moray), two Surf Scoters, three American Wigeons, four Ring-billed Gulls, six Ring-necked Ducks, nine Glossy Ibises, and in England a total of 17 Parrot Crossbills between Berkshire and Surrey.
-  Chris Batty, RBA