Tuesday 5th December 2006
	With sustained strong winds the wreck of Leach's Petrels continued with reports from eighteen counties including 100 at Black Rock Sands, Gwynedd, 56 at Porthcawl, Glamorgan, 50 off Chesil Cove, Dorset, twelve at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire and eleven off Saltcoats, Ayrshire. Associated arrivals included Sabine's Gulls in both Dorset and Hamphire, an unseasonal Roseate Tern in Co Dublin and Long-tailed Skua and 67 Balearic Shearwaters passing St Ives Island, Cornwall. Other than the wintering Barrow's Goldeneye in Co Down and Lesser Scaup in Dumfries and Galloway all other rarity reports came from southwest England where the Falcated Duck and Cattle Egret remained in Devon and the Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall.
-  Chris Batty, RBA