Sunday 4th February 2018
	The highlight of the day was an American Herring Gull identified in Cornwall at Newlyn albeit it only present there briefly. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Forster's Tern still in County Galway, Stilt Sandpiper in Dorset, Pacific Divers in both County Cork and Cornwall (2), Horned Lark in Surrey, Thayer's Gull, Lesser Scaup and Ferruginous Duck together in Hampshire, Spotted Sandpiper in Nottinghamshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, King Eider in Ceredigion, and both King Eider and White-billed Diver on the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), Little Bunting (London), Richard's Pipit (Gloucestershire), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), two American Wigeons, three each of Ring-necked Duck, Snow Goose and Shorelark, four Lapland Buntings, seven Ring-billed Gulls, eight Surf Scoters and 10 Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA