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Friday 30th December 2022  
  A White-winged Scoter was found yesterday and remained today at Tonatanvally, Achill Island, County Mayo, as well as an Arctic Redpoll found today at Dunsilly, County Antrim.

Lingering rarities still present included the Ferruginous Duck in Staffordshire, Red-breasted Goose in Cumbria, American Herring Gull in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gull in County Antrim, Hume's Warbler and Pallid Harrier in Norfolk.

Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, four Yellow-browed Warblers, 11 Shorelarks, 14 Waxwings, an American Wigeon, nine Ring-necked Ducks, a Todd's Canada Goose, a Snow Goose, a Leach's Petrel, five Tundra Bean Geese, a Lady Amherst's Pheasant, two Glossy Ibises, a Pomarine Skua, two Little Auks, a Ring-billed Gull, six Glaucous Gulls and four Iceland Gulls.
-  Ben Clark, RBA