Monday 14th January 2019
	Rarities today comprised the Desert Wheatear still on the Isles of Scilly, Hume's Warbler in East Sussex, Dusky Warbler in Lincolnshire, Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Lothian and Norfolk, Pacific Diver on County Cork, Spotted Sandpiper in County Wexford, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset and Lesser Scaup in both Somerset and Staffordshire. In Highland a White-billed Diver was a new discovery at Little Loch Broom. Scarcities included Hoopoe (County Armagh), Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), Great Grey Shrike (Staffordshire), Temminck's Stint (Cornwall), two each of Serin, Rose-coloured Starling and American Wigeons, three Ring-billed Gulls, four Rough-legged Buzzards, eight Ring-necked Ducks, 10 Glossy Ibises, 14 Yellow-browed Warblers, and a total of 37 Shorelarks.
-  Chris Batty, RBA