Wednesday 12th December 2018
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a juvenile Ivory Gull in Aberdeenshire at Cairnbulg. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Bufflehead still in County Cork, Black Scoter still in County Kerry, Spotted Sandpiper in County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpiper in West Sussex, Red-rumped Swallow in Cornwall, and on Anglesey the Lesser Scaup remained but the American Royal Tern could not be found. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling (Derbyshire), Richard's Pipit (County Durham), Temminck's Stint (Cornwall), Ring-necked Duck (Northamptonshire), Ring-billed Gull (County Limerick), Great Grey Shrike (Cambridgeshire), Lapland Bunting (East Yorkshire), three American Wigeons, four Rough-legged Buzzards, 35 Shorelarks, 88 Cattle Egrets, and a total of 479 Waxwings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA