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Alphabetical list updated by Ralph @ 1933hrs.
ABERDEENSHIRE - 18 Waxwing. Aberdeen, 1pm in gdns on B983 Union Terrace.
BEDFORDSHIRE - Green Sand Willington GPs + Goldeneye, Dunlin, Redshank. Drk Rc-Pochard Priory Pk. 4 Goldeneye Roxton Pits + 2 Shelduck, 130 Wigeon.
BERKSHIRE - 2 redhead Smew. Hurst Green GPs, 8am.
BERKSHIRE - ad Yellow-legged Gull. Searles Fm GPs, 1pm with Lsr Black-b Gulls.
BERKSHIRE - 1w Scaup. Horton GPs, on pits at end of Park Lane.
BERKSHIRE - ad Yellow-legged Gull. Queen Mother Resr.
BERKSHIRE - Red-necked Grebe. Woolhampton G.Pits, pm + 2 Dunlin.
BERKSHIRE - 7(1drk) Smew. Wraysbury G.Pits, + 3(1drk) Goosander, 3 Ruddy Duck.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - 1w Great Grey Shrike. SE of Duxford - NW of Hinxton, 9.14am btw watermill + railway on hedges.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - 3 Goosander Paxton Pits +70 Goldeneye, Msh Tit, 32 Siskin.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - RTDiver Grafham Water best from Plummer c/pk + Knot on S.shore, 3 Shelduck.
CORNWALL - 3w Ring-billed Gull. Trevorian Pool - 1ml E. of Sennen, in fld E.of pool + 1w Med Gull (SW375265).
CORNWALL - Bal Shearwater past Gwennap Hd.
CORNWALL - drk GwTeal Hayle Est RSPB am. f Eider Carnsew Basin.
CORNWALL - LtDuck Drift Resr + G.Sand, 5 Scaup.
CUMBRIA - Firecrest. Sandscale Haws NR - Roanhead, around NT compound (SD201756).
CUMBRIA - drk Green-winged Teal. Campfield Marsh, Solway, pm at North Plain + Hen Harrier from screen at top of track.
DERBYSHIRE - 1w Caspian Gull. Ogston Resr, 4pm in evng roost
DORSET - Red-n Grebe Mudeford Quay, RPTD 1.15pm.
DORSET - Bittern. Hatch Pond, Poole, 12.15pm in NW cnr.
DORSET - Jack Snipe Portland Bill +8+SEOwl, 14 Redwing, 70 Song Thrush, 2 Golden lover. 3 Eider past + RTDiver, Grey Plover. Goldeneye on sea +C.Scoters
DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY - ad Ross's Goose. Caerlaverock WWT, with Barnacle Geese but mobile in area.
DURHAM - Sooty Shearwater Whitburn 11.35am past N.close inshore + 30 Scaup, Snow Bunting S.
EAST YORKSHIRE - sub ad Great Northern Diver Easington lagoon.
EAST YORKSHIRE - Lapland Bunting Aldbrough in 2nd fld N.of c/van pk + Snow Bunting. Ad L.Gull at fishponds S.of c/van pk.
FLINTSHIRE - imm Long-tailed Duck Shotton, pm on Rifle Range Pool.
GLAMORGAN - Grey Phalarope Gileston Beach feeding at outflow + Purple Sand.
GREATER MANCHESTER - ESCAPED Golden Eagle. Tottington, in area btw Bury + Bolton today but now believed to have been recaptured.
GREATER MANCHESTER - 6 Willow Tit. Wigan Flashes, at feeders bhnd Hawkley Hall School (SD580033) + Chiffchaff.
HAMPSHIRE - 4ad Bewick's Swan Ibsley Water Mdws 12.50pm + Buzzard.
HERTFORDSHIRE - Slav Grebe Stanstead Abbots GPs.
HIGHLAND - Rough-legged Buzzard. 7ml NW of Carr Bridge, RPTD NE of A9 from minor rd btw Tomatin + Balvraid.
KENT - drk Smew. New Hythe GPs - on lake adj to M20, 9am + 2 Red-c Pochard.
KENT - 3 Snow Bunting Sandwich Bay estate + 46 RTDiver past + 3 Eider.
KENT - Great Northern Diver. Scotney GPs, 2pm + RTDiver, drk RbMerg.
KENT - juv Rough-legged Buzzard Harty Marshes 1pm + sev SEOwls + Hen Harriers. Twite RPTD.
LANCASHIRE - 71 Bewick's Swan Martin Mere WWT at dawn +1540 Whooper, 5k PfGeese.
LINCOLNSHIRE - 1w Rose-col Starling. RAF Cranwell - 3ml NW of Sleaford, 1.55pm in back garden of 10 Flowerdown Avenue.
LONDON - 3 Firecrest. Regent's Park, + 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap.
MERSEYSIDE - 4 Snow Bunting Wallasey beach W.of lifeguard stn,
Harrison Drive
NORFOLK - 10 Pintail Tottenhill GPs + 11 Ruddy Duck, 2 redhead Goldeneye.
NORFOLK - 60 European White-fronted Geese Holkham Freshmarsh 1pm S.of Meals House.
NORFOLK - 4 Barnacle Goose N.of A149 btw Cley + Salthouse.
NORTH YORKSHIRE - RTDiver Scarborough Hbr.
ORKNEY - 2 Waxwing. Finstown, + 1w Med Gull commuting btw sewage outfall + flds by garage.
ORKNEY - Waxwing. Stromness, 8.55am in garden of 4 Hillside Rd.
ORKNEY - 6 Little Auk. ferry, am btw Scrabster + Stromness + Puffin.
ORKNEY - ad Iceland Gull. Stromness Hbr, 1.20pm.
ORKNEY - ad Ring-billed Gull. Stromness, 11.10am nrby golf course in play area.
SCILLY ISLES - Yellow-browed Warbler. St Mary's - Lower Moors, + Surf Scoter in The Roads + BTDiver, 2 Eider, Goosander.
SUFFOLK - ringtail Hen Harrier. Minsmere RSPB, + Ruff, Avocet, 3 Pintail, 28 Blk-t Godwit.
SUFFOLK - 30+Snow Bunting Kessingland Beach in front of Jolly Sailor +10+Snow Bunting in ploughed fld off pth to Benacre Broad. 3 RTDiver Benacre Broad.
WARWICKSHIRE - Sibe Chiffchaff Draycote Water 1pm RPTD nr hide. Y/DAY ad Iceland Gull in evng roost + LtDuck, redhead Smew.
WARWICKSHIRE - ad Iceland Gull Draycote Water in evng roost.
WEST YORKSHIRE - 102 Brambling. Blackmoorfoot Resr, am.
WEST YORKSHIRE - juv Black-throated Diver. Pugney's CP, on boating lake.
WILDLIFE - CORNWALL - 5 Harbour Porpoise, past Gwennap Head, Porthgwarra.
Thanks to 'You-Know-Who' for filling in for Ralph all day. Cheers!
Alphabetical list updated by Ralph @ 1933hrs.
ABERDEENSHIRE - 18 Waxwing. Aberdeen, 1pm in gdns on B983 Union Terrace.
BEDFORDSHIRE - Green Sand Willington GPs + Goldeneye, Dunlin, Redshank. Drk Rc-Pochard Priory Pk. 4 Goldeneye Roxton Pits + 2 Shelduck, 130 Wigeon.
BERKSHIRE - 2 redhead Smew. Hurst Green GPs, 8am.
BERKSHIRE - ad Yellow-legged Gull. Searles Fm GPs, 1pm with Lsr Black-b Gulls.
BERKSHIRE - 1w Scaup. Horton GPs, on pits at end of Park Lane.
BERKSHIRE - ad Yellow-legged Gull. Queen Mother Resr.
BERKSHIRE - Red-necked Grebe. Woolhampton G.Pits, pm + 2 Dunlin.
BERKSHIRE - 7(1drk) Smew. Wraysbury G.Pits, + 3(1drk) Goosander, 3 Ruddy Duck.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - 1w Great Grey Shrike. SE of Duxford - NW of Hinxton, 9.14am btw watermill + railway on hedges.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - 3 Goosander Paxton Pits +70 Goldeneye, Msh Tit, 32 Siskin.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE - RTDiver Grafham Water best from Plummer c/pk + Knot on S.shore, 3 Shelduck.
CORNWALL - 3w Ring-billed Gull. Trevorian Pool - 1ml E. of Sennen, in fld E.of pool + 1w Med Gull (SW375265).
CORNWALL - Bal Shearwater past Gwennap Hd.
CORNWALL - drk GwTeal Hayle Est RSPB am. f Eider Carnsew Basin.
CORNWALL - LtDuck Drift Resr + G.Sand, 5 Scaup.
CUMBRIA - Firecrest. Sandscale Haws NR - Roanhead, around NT compound (SD201756).
CUMBRIA - drk Green-winged Teal. Campfield Marsh, Solway, pm at North Plain + Hen Harrier from screen at top of track.
DERBYSHIRE - 1w Caspian Gull. Ogston Resr, 4pm in evng roost
DORSET - Red-n Grebe Mudeford Quay, RPTD 1.15pm.
DORSET - Bittern. Hatch Pond, Poole, 12.15pm in NW cnr.
DORSET - Jack Snipe Portland Bill +8+SEOwl, 14 Redwing, 70 Song Thrush, 2 Golden lover. 3 Eider past + RTDiver, Grey Plover. Goldeneye on sea +C.Scoters
DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY - ad Ross's Goose. Caerlaverock WWT, with Barnacle Geese but mobile in area.
DURHAM - Sooty Shearwater Whitburn 11.35am past N.close inshore + 30 Scaup, Snow Bunting S.
EAST YORKSHIRE - sub ad Great Northern Diver Easington lagoon.
EAST YORKSHIRE - Lapland Bunting Aldbrough in 2nd fld N.of c/van pk + Snow Bunting. Ad L.Gull at fishponds S.of c/van pk.
FLINTSHIRE - imm Long-tailed Duck Shotton, pm on Rifle Range Pool.
GLAMORGAN - Grey Phalarope Gileston Beach feeding at outflow + Purple Sand.
GREATER MANCHESTER - ESCAPED Golden Eagle. Tottington, in area btw Bury + Bolton today but now believed to have been recaptured.
GREATER MANCHESTER - 6 Willow Tit. Wigan Flashes, at feeders bhnd Hawkley Hall School (SD580033) + Chiffchaff.
HAMPSHIRE - 4ad Bewick's Swan Ibsley Water Mdws 12.50pm + Buzzard.
HERTFORDSHIRE - Slav Grebe Stanstead Abbots GPs.
HIGHLAND - Rough-legged Buzzard. 7ml NW of Carr Bridge, RPTD NE of A9 from minor rd btw Tomatin + Balvraid.
KENT - drk Smew. New Hythe GPs - on lake adj to M20, 9am + 2 Red-c Pochard.
KENT - 3 Snow Bunting Sandwich Bay estate + 46 RTDiver past + 3 Eider.
KENT - Great Northern Diver. Scotney GPs, 2pm + RTDiver, drk RbMerg.
KENT - juv Rough-legged Buzzard Harty Marshes 1pm + sev SEOwls + Hen Harriers. Twite RPTD.
LANCASHIRE - 71 Bewick's Swan Martin Mere WWT at dawn +1540 Whooper, 5k PfGeese.
LINCOLNSHIRE - 1w Rose-col Starling. RAF Cranwell - 3ml NW of Sleaford, 1.55pm in back garden of 10 Flowerdown Avenue.
LONDON - 3 Firecrest. Regent's Park, + 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap.
MERSEYSIDE - 4 Snow Bunting Wallasey beach W.of lifeguard stn,
Harrison Drive
NORFOLK - 10 Pintail Tottenhill GPs + 11 Ruddy Duck, 2 redhead Goldeneye.
NORFOLK - 60 European White-fronted Geese Holkham Freshmarsh 1pm S.of Meals House.
NORFOLK - 4 Barnacle Goose N.of A149 btw Cley + Salthouse.
NORTH YORKSHIRE - RTDiver Scarborough Hbr.
ORKNEY - 2 Waxwing. Finstown, + 1w Med Gull commuting btw sewage outfall + flds by garage.
ORKNEY - Waxwing. Stromness, 8.55am in garden of 4 Hillside Rd.
ORKNEY - 6 Little Auk. ferry, am btw Scrabster + Stromness + Puffin.
ORKNEY - ad Iceland Gull. Stromness Hbr, 1.20pm.
ORKNEY - ad Ring-billed Gull. Stromness, 11.10am nrby golf course in play area.
SCILLY ISLES - Yellow-browed Warbler. St Mary's - Lower Moors, + Surf Scoter in The Roads + BTDiver, 2 Eider, Goosander.
SUFFOLK - ringtail Hen Harrier. Minsmere RSPB, + Ruff, Avocet, 3 Pintail, 28 Blk-t Godwit.
SUFFOLK - 30+Snow Bunting Kessingland Beach in front of Jolly Sailor +10+Snow Bunting in ploughed fld off pth to Benacre Broad. 3 RTDiver Benacre Broad.
WARWICKSHIRE - Sibe Chiffchaff Draycote Water 1pm RPTD nr hide. Y/DAY ad Iceland Gull in evng roost + LtDuck, redhead Smew.
WARWICKSHIRE - ad Iceland Gull Draycote Water in evng roost.
WEST YORKSHIRE - 102 Brambling. Blackmoorfoot Resr, am.
WEST YORKSHIRE - juv Black-throated Diver. Pugney's CP, on boating lake.
WILDLIFE - CORNWALL - 5 Harbour Porpoise, past Gwennap Head, Porthgwarra.
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