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Tuesday 26th October 2010  
  Rarities today comprised the Green Heron still in Cornwall, House Crow in County Cork, Penduline Tit in Kent, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire, King Eider in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxfordshire, Small Canada Goose in Argyll, single American Golden Plovers in each of County Cork, Devon, Norfolk and County Tipperary, Glossy Ibises in both Devon and Norfolk and a Ferruginous Duck in Somerset.

On the Isles of Scilly the Tundra Peregrine remained alongside a Serin, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Common Rosefinch, Lapland Bunting and five Yellow-browed Warblers.

Elsewhere, scarcities included a Common Rosefinch (Pembrokeshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Hampshire), Barred Warbler (County Galway), American Wigeon (North Yorkshire), Cattle Egret (Pembrokeshire), Pectoral Sandpiper (Northumberland), Black Brant (Dorset) and four Ring-necked Ducks (Lincolnshire and Western Isles) whilst Waxwings were recorded in forty counties.
-  Chris Batty, RBA