Saturday 6th November 2010
	In Essex an adult Thayer's Gull was discovered at Pitsea landfill site. Other new discoveries included a Red-flanked Bluetail at Dungeness RSPB (Kent), female King Eider on Shetland and Semipalmated Sandpiper in Co Cork. In Cornwall the American Bittern and Green Heron both remained on show throughout the day. Elsewhere lingering rarities included Glossy Ibises in Devon and Norfolk, American Golden Plover in Norfolk and Devon, King Eider in Suffolk, Red-breasted Goose in Merseyside, Spotted Sandpiper and Dusky Warbler on Isles of Scilly, Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxfordshire, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire and White-billed Diver on Shetland. In Ireland the Northern Harrier and Lesser Yellowlegs (Wexford), House Crow (Cork) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Waterford) all remained on show.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA