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Saturday 23rd October 2010  
  Quality rarities reported today included a Little Shearwater past Pendeen Watch, Cornwall, a Black-throated Thrush on Fair Isle, Shetland, a Penduline Tit at Dungeness RSPB, Kent and a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll at Toab, Shetland. A Glossy Ibis was seen a few times at Dunwich, Suffolk, but remained very mobile and elusive for much of the day.

In Cornwall, the Green Heron was seen mid morning at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, but not again by mid afternoon. Lingering rarities included single Red-flanked Bluetails at Hayling Island, Hampshire and St Martin's, Isles of Scilly, American Buff-bellied Pipit at Ballinclamper, County Waterford, two Penduline Tits at Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, Squacco Heron at Angle Bay, Pembrokeshire, single Lesser Yellowlegs' at Port Meadow, Oxfordshire and Tacumshin, County Wexford, King Eider in Suffolk, two Glossy Ibises in Devon and singles in Anglesey and County Wexford, House Crow in County Cork and single American Golden Plovers in Devon and Norfolk.
-  Will Soar, RBA