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Tuesday 31st October 2006  
  Today brought more of the same with highlights amongst the finds an American Golden Plover on South Uist, Western Isles, a White-rumped Sandpiper at Ballycotton, Co Cork and a brief Olive-backed Pipit at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire.

Of the rarities remaining from previous days the Blyth's Reed Warbler on St Mary's, Isle of Scilly, Radde's Warbler on Bardsey Island, Gwynedd, Glossy Ibis at Fluke Hall, Lancashire, Cattle Egret near Sidmouth, Devon and two American Golden Plovers in Cambridgeshire were the most noteworthy.

A total of 33 Spoonbills was notable, including flocks of 18 on the Taw Estuary, Devon and 12 at Brownsea Island, Dorset.

In London the distinctive adult Yellow-legged Gull with extensive, dense but neat head streaking showed again in Hyde Park but it still remains for it to be identified to form. It, at least superficially, closely resembles Azorean Yellow-legged Gull although it has been suggested that this head pattern can perhaps also be shown by some Yellow-legged Gulls of the, principally Mediterranean, form michahellis.
Chris Batty, RBA
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