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Sunday 19th January 2025  
  Discoveries today included an Olive-backed Pipit in Cornwall at Helston, in County Fermanagh, a Lesser Scaup was found at Enniskillen.

Lingering rarities seen today included the Booted Eagle, Pacific Diver, and Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, American Coot, Bufflehead, and Ross's Goose in Shetland, Ferruginous Ducks in London and Warwickshire, Lesser Scaups in County Wexford(2), Perthshire, Dorset, Devon, and Essex, Least Sandpiper in Somerset, Red-breasted Goose in Cumbria, Pallid Harrier in County Cork, and Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA