Sunday 25th November 2018
	Discoveries today included a Hume's Warbler in East Yorkshire at Kilnsea, Penduline Tit in Norfolk at Haddiscoe Island, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in South Yorkshire at Hatfield Moors and in Northumberland the Bonaparte's Gull was relocated at Bamburgh. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Pied-billed Grebe on the Shetland Isles, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Hume's Warbler in Devon, Dusky Warbler in Dorset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Lesser Yellowlegs and three White-rumped Sandpipers together in County Londonderry, King Eider in Ceredigion, Lesser Scaup on Anglesey and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in County Cork. Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler and Lapland Bunting (Norfolk), Richard's Pipit (East Yorkshire), two each of both Rose-coloured Starling and Serin, four American Wigeons, five Rough-legged Buzzards, eight Ring-necked Ducks, 23 Shorelarks, 73 Cattle Egrets and a total of 280 Waxwings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA