Sunday 8th December 2019
	Rarities today comprised Bonaparte's Gulls new in both County Donegal at Killybegs and County Durham at Whitburn, the Eastern Stonechat still in Suffolk, Coues's Arctic Redpoll on the Shetland Isles, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall and Long-billed Dowitchers in both Devon and Northumberland. Scarcities included Purple Heron and Ring-necked Duck (Lancashire), Surf Scoter (Conwy), Glossy Ibis (Kent), Snow Goose (Western Isles), and three each of Ring-billed Gull, Rough-legged Buzzard and Yellow-browed Warbler.
-  Chris Batty, RBA