Friday 15th March 2019
	Killybegs, Co.Donegal, drew in a first-winter Bonaparte's Gull. A Coues's Arctic Redpoll found in a garden in Cockley Cley, Norfolk, meant two were in the county today, with the popular bird still showing at Sculthorpe Moor NR. Other long-stayers included Penduline Tit in Greater London and Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and Dorset. Scarcities were represented by a Grey Phalarope (Conwy), two Yellow-browed Warblers (both Gloucestershire), three Great Grey Shrikes, four Shorelarks, a Rough-legged Buzzard (Scilly), nine Glossy Ibises, four Tundra Bean Geese, a Todd's Canada Goose, an American Wigeon, four Green-winged Teal, three Ring-necked Ducks, a Ring-billed Gull, a Kumlien's Gull, 12 Iceland Gulls and six Glaucous Gulls. Spring arrivals remained on a low ebb, but there was news of two Ospreys, 15 Wheatears, nine Swallows, four House Martins and five White Wagtails.
-  David Campbell, RBA