Sunday 23rd December 2018
	A first-winter Laughing Gull was discovered on Lough Foyle (Co.Donegal). There was late news of a cluster of seven White-billed Divers off Papa Westray (Orkney) yesterday. Lingering rarities included Pied-billed Grebe (Shetland), Penduline Tit (Dorset) and Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire). Scarcities comprised 11 Shorelarks, a Great Grey Shrike, a Richard's Pipit, 203 Waxwings, a Rose-coloured Starling, two Ring-billed Gulls, five Iceland Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, two American Wigeon, five Ring-necked Ducks, a Green-winged Teal, four Surf Scoters, six Taiga Bean Geese, 14 Tundra Bean Geese, one Bean Goose sp, a Glossy Ibis and 55 Cattle Egrets.
-  David Campbell, RBA