Sunday 30th December 2018
	New discoveries included a Pacific Diver off Portscatho, Cornwall, a White-billed Diver off Druridge Bay, Northumberland and a Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Whiteadder Reservoir, Borders. Lingering rarities included single Dusky Warblers in Warwickshire and Dorset, Desert Wheatear in Scily, Pacific Diver in County Cork, King Eider in Ceredigion, single Lesser Scaup in Anglesey and Somerset and Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire. Scarcity highlights included a Great Grey Shrike, four Lapland Buntings, 12 Shorelarks, around 143 Waxwings, a Black-bellied Dipper, a Pomarine Skua, three Rough-legged Buzzards, four Black Brants, 12 Taiga Bean Geese, 25 Tundra Bean Geese, a Green-winged Teal, two American Wigeon, two Surf Scoters, six Ring-necked Ducks, a Kumlien's Gull, four Glaucous Gulls and six Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA