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Wednesday 29th September 2010  
  New rarities discovered today comprised a Gyr in Devon at Morte Point, a Wilson's Phalarope in Gloucestershire at Dowdeswell Reservoir, a Red-footed Falcon briefly in County Durham at Dawdon and single Little Buntings in Norfolk at Thornham, and on the Farne Islands, Northumberland.

Around the Shetland Isles two American Buff-bellied Pipits remained, as did two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls, single Little Bunting, Short-toed Lark and Corncrake, two each of Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Red-breasted Flycatcher, five each of Bluethroat, Barred Warbler and Common Rosefinch, twelve each of Yellow-browed Warbler and Greenland Redpolls and 161 Lapland Buntings.

Meanwhile, on the Isles of Scilly the Spotted Sandpiper remained, as did a Pectoral Sandpiper, Yellow-browed Warbler, Spoonbill and three Wrynecks.

Elsewhere, lingering rarities comprised the Northern Parula in Argyll, House Crow in County Cork, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll in Northumberland, Whiskered Tern in Glamorgan, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Wilson's Phalarope and Lesser Yellowlegs together in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Gwent, King Eider in Suffolk, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire, Glossy Ibis in Dorset, White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Kerry and Kent, three Ferruginous Ducks together in Somerset and Ross's Geese in Lothian (2) and Dumfries and Galloway.
Chris Batty, RBA
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