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Saturday 1st January 2011  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Lesser Scaup in County Kerry at Lough Gill. Elsewhere, lingering rarities comprised the Pacific Diver still in Cornwall, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Northern Harrier in Norfolk, Pied-billed Grebe and White-billed Diver in County Cork, Forster's Tern in County Galway, Red-breasted Goose in East Sussex, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, King Eider in Moray, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in County Durham, Ferruginous Duck in County Armagh, Glossy Ibis in Berkshire, Ross's Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, and single Lesser Scaups in both Glamorgan and Gloucestershire.

Scarcities included 61 Shorelarks, 37 Lapland Buntings, 28 Tundra Bean Geese, 12 Great Grey Shrikes, nine Ring-billed Gulls, eight Glaucous Gulls, seven Iceland Gulls, six Great White Egrets, five Green-winged Teals, four each of both Black Brant and Caspian Gull, three Rough-legged Buzzards, two each of Surf Scoter, Ring-necked Duck, Cattle Egret and Little Auk, and single White-tailed Eagle (Hampshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Isle of Scilly), American Wigeon (Leicestershire), Snow Goose (County Down) and Balearic Shearwater (Pembrokeshire).
Chris Batty, RBA
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