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Thursday 28th January 2021  
  The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Spotted Sandpiper in Ayrshire at Culzean Bay where it had previously been logged on 16th-19th October 2020.

Rarities lingering elsewhere comprised the Bufflehead still in Warwickshire at Coton, Rustic Bunting in Surrey at Thursley Common, King Eider in County Kerry at Castlegregory, and a White-billed Diver still on the Shetland Isles.

Scarcities included American Wigeon (Northumberland), Ring-billed Gull (County Wicklow), Green-winged Teal (Devon), Rose-coloured Starling and Glossy Ibis (Dorset), Great Grey Shrike and Yellow-browed Warbler (Surrey), two each of Little Bunting, Ring-necked Duck, Lapland Bunting, and Kumlien's Gull, and a total of 10 Waxwings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA