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Monday 12th November 2007  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a party of three Penduline Tits at Dingle Marshes, Suffolk. Otherwise, a brief Long-billed Dowitcher was seen at Bewl Water, East Sussex, a Lesser Scaup was confirmed and a White-billed Diver discovered on Fetlar, Shetland Isles and the Black Scoter returned to Llanfairfechan, Conwy for the tenth succesive winter.

In West Sussex the White-billed Diver reappeared whilst other lingering rarities comprised the Gyr on the Western Isles, Glossy Ibis in Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaup in Berkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Cattle Egrets in County Wicklow and Dorset (2) and single Great White Egrets in County Londonderry, Hampshire and Lancashire.

Displaced Little Auks continued to be seen with reports from 22 counties including site maximums of 2,580 in Aberdeenshire, 860 Orkney Islands, 222 North Yorkshire, 201 County Durham, 136 Norfolk, 109 Moray, 99 Northumberland, 72 East Yorkshire, 59 Lothian and 53 in Cleveland.
Chris Batty, RBA
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