Sunday 18th February 2018
	The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Taiga Merlin in Highland at Holborn Head and similarly the Black Scoter was relocated in Northumberland and the Long-billed Dowitcher showed again in Kent. Lingering rarities comprised the Pine Bunting still in Kent, Snowy Owl on the Isles of Scilly, Stilt Sandpiper in Dorset, Horned Lark in Surrey, Thayer's Gull in Hampshire, Black Scoter in County Kerry, Spotted Sandpiper in Nottinghamshire, Penduline Tit in Gloucestershire, White-billed Divers in Cornwall, Orkney Isles and Shetland Isles, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll and Coues's Arctic Redpolls in both Norfolk (5) and Suffolk. Scarcities included Little Bunting (London), Yellow-browed Warbler (Cornwall), Lesser Snow Goose (Moray), Temminck's Stint (West Sussex), two each of both Rough-legged Buzzard and Surf Scoter, three Ring-necked Ducks, four American Wigeons, six Ring-billed Gulls, eight Glossy Ibises and in Norfolk a flock of 16 Parrot Crossbills.
-  Chris Batty, RBA