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Sunday 27th January 2019  
 

Ongoing rarities included Eastern Yellow Wagtail on Scilly, Hume's Warbler in East Sussex, Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Spotted Sandpiper in Co.Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire and Dumfries and Galloway, King Eider in Ceredigion and three Coues's Arctic Redpolls (two in Norfolk and another in Lothian).

Scarcities were represented by a Night Heron, a Lesser Snow Goose, a Black Brant, two Tundra Bean Geese, two American Wigeon, two Green-winged Teal, four Ring-necked Ducks, four Surf Scoters, seven Glossy Ibises, four Rough-legged Buzzards, 45 Shorelarks, a Rose-coloured Starling, six Great Grey Shrikes, five Yellow-browed Warblers, a Temminck's Stint, two Ring-billed Gulls, two Pomarine Skuas, three Kumlien's Gulls, 15 Iceland Gulls and 17 Glaucous Gulls.
-  David Campbell, RBA