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Saturday 7th January 2023  
  Lingering rarities seen today included the Isabelline Wheatear, Eastern Yellow Wagtail and Laughing Gull in Devon, Arctic Redpoll and Bonaparte's Gull in County Antrim, Hume's Warbler, Pallid Harrier, Long-billed Dowitcher and two Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk, White-winged Scoter and Hooded Merganser in County Mayo, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, King Eider in Cleveland, Lesser Scaup in Western Isles and Greater Yellowlegs in County Waterford.

Scarcity highlights included a Pallas's Warbler, a Great Grey Shrike, four Yellow-browed Warblers, 12 Shorelarks, 16 Waxwings, two Surf Scoters, two American Wigeon, four Green-winged Teals, 16 Ring-necked Ducks, a Snow Goose, a Black Brant,  four Tundra Bean Geese, 50 Taiga Bean Geese, a Lady Amherst's Pheasant, four Glossy Ibises, three Grey Phalaropes, two Leach's Petrels, three Little Auks, a Great Shearwater, a Long-tailed Skua, four Pomarine Skuas, four Ring-billed Gulls, six Iceland Gulls and seven Glaucous Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA