Sunday 12th December 2010
	The highlight of the day was the continued presence of the Pied-billed Grebe in County Cork at Little Island. Elsewhere, the Northern Harrier remained in Norfolk, as did the Forster's Tern in County Galway, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, two King Eiders together on the Shetland Isles, Glossy Ibis in Berkshire, Richardson's Canada Goose in County Sligo and Ross's Goose in Dumfries and Galloway. Scarcities included a White-tailed Eagle that migrated west from West Sussex to Hampshire, single American Wigeon (Leicestershire), Hoopoe (Dorset), Little Auk (Orkney Isles) and Grey Phalarope (Essex), two each of Green-winged Teal and Black Brant, three each of Surf Scoter, Rough-legged Buzzard and Great White Egret, four Caspian Gulls, five each of Ring-billed, Glaucous and Iceland Gulls, 20 Balearic Shearwaters (together in Cornwall) and 23 each of both Shorelark and Lapland Bunting.
-  Chris Batty, RBA