Friday 15th February 2019
	Highlight of the day was the discovery of a Great Spotted Cuckoo at Ballycroneen (Co Cork). A Gyr was found on Unst, Shetland. The Blyth's Reed Warbler (Greater Manchester), Penduline Tit and Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset), Spotted Sandpiper (Co Waterford), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Argyll) and Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Conwy), Ring-billed Gull (Cornwall), Temminck's Stint (Cornwall), Ring-necked Duck (Dorset), Taiga Bean Goose (Lancashire), Kumlien's Gull (Suffolk), two Pallas's Warblers, Black Brants, Tundra Bean Geese, American Wigeons and Green-winged Teals, at least two Rough-legged Buzzards, four Yellow-browed Warblers, six Great Grey Shrikes, 14 Glossy Ibises and 34 Shorelarks. Swallows arrived in Isles of Scilly, Cornwall and Gwynedd, whilst a House Martin was logged in Cornwall.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA