Saturday 28th October 2006
	The final Saturday in October failed to provide the hoped for late autumn mega, but a scattering of rarities were available around the country. The best new bird was a Marbled Duck at North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, but this record will undoubtedly be tainted with the usual controversy that surrounds this species. In Kent the stunning male Penduline Tit continued to perform at Dungeness RSPB and in Northumberland the Daurian Shrike remained at Cresswell Pond. Cambridgeshire continued to host the juvenile American Golden Plover at Little Paxton Gravel Pits and in Yorkshire the Great White Egret toured a selection of waterbodies in the morning before reappearing at New Swillington Ings. The Thrush Nightingale remained on Fair Isle. Little Auks were recorded in small numbers off the mainland, but in Northumberland the Farne Islands scored a massive tally of 1,997 by midday. Late news from 19th October related to a Killdeer on North Uist, presumably the same bird seen last weekend in Argyll.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA