Tuesday 1st January 2019
	The first new rarities of the year came in the form of a Dusky Warbler at Huttoft Bank (Lincolnshire) and two White-billed Divers (Western Isles and Dumfries and Galloway). Rarities carried into the New Year included two Pacific Divers (Cornwall and Co.Cork), Pied-billed Grebe (Shetland), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Western Isles), two Ferruginous Ducks (Powys and Hampshire), Lesser Scaup (Somerset), King Eider (Ceredigion), Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Snowy Owl (Orkney), two Dusky Warblers (Dorset and Warwickshire) and Penduline Tit (Dorset). Scarcities comprised 140 Taiga Bean Geese, 10 Tundra Bean Geese, two Black Brants, six American Wigeon, two Green-winged Teal, seven Ring-necked Ducks, five Surf Scoters, 11 Glossy Ibises, White-tailed Eagle (Cleveland/North Yorkshire), five Rough-legged Buzzards, four Ring-billed Gulls, nine Iceland Gulls, 10 Glaucous Gulls, a Little Auk, 15 Shorelarks, three Richard's Pipits, 255 Waxwings, a Black-bellied Dipper, 10 Yellow-browed Warblers, seven Great Grey Shrikes, a Rose-coloured Starling and two Lapland Buntings.
-  David Campbell, RBA