Friday 25th January 2019
	A Hume's Warbler found in a garden near Portesham, Dorset, was the day's sole new discovery. Ongoing rarities were represented by Eastern Yellow Wagtail on Scilly, Hume's Warbler in East Sussex, Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Western Isles, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire and Dumfries and Galloway, Bonaparte's Gull in London, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset and Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire and three Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk. Scarcities included a Pallas's Warbler, two Serins, a Lapland Bunting, three Rough-legged Buzzards, nine Yellow-browed Warblers, 21 Shorelarks, two Rose-coloured Starlings, five Great Grey Shrikes, a Todd's Canada Goose, five Tundra Bean Geese, three Surf Scoters, two American Wigeon, a Green-winged Teal, five Ring-necked Ducks, a Kumlien's Gull, 13 Iceland Gulls and 14 Glaucous Gulls.
-  David Campbell, RBA