Saturday 30th December 2006
	The Black-eared Kite around Cley, Norfolk and the Barrow’s Goldeneye at Callander, Forth headlined the cast of long-staying rarities.  Elsewhere, notable winter passerines included the Red-throated Pipit in Co Dublin, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Aberdeenshire and single Yellow-browed Warblers in Cornwall, Hampshire, Glamorgan and Somerset. Several North American vagrants remained with Bonaparte's Gulls in Angus and the Isles of Scilly, Lesser Scaups in Co Down and Western Isles, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Co Cork and Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent.
-  Chris Batty, RBA