Thursday 27th December 2018
	Continuing rarities included Desert Wheatear (Scilly), Penduline Tit (Dorset), Dusky Warbler (Warwickshire), two Coues's Arctic Redpolls (Norfolk), Lesser Scaup (Anglesey) and Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire). Scarcites comprised a Richard's Pipit, three Great Grey Shrikes, a Rose-coloured Starling, five Lapland Buntings, 36 Shorelarks, 331 Waxwings, three Rough-legged Buzzards, a White Stork, five Iceland Gulls, three Glaucous Gulls, two Glossy Ibis, four Black Brants, 20 Taiga Bean Geese, 13 Tundra Bean Geese, three Surf Scoters, an American Wigeon, 12 Ring-necked Ducks (including a flock of nine in Co.Cork) and 69 Cattle Egrets.
-  David Campbell, RBA