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Thursday 20th January 2011  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Red-breasted Goose amongst Dark-bellied Brent Geese at Hill Head, Hampshire.

Elsewhere, lingering rarities comprised the Pacific Diver still in Cornwall, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Northern Harrier and Ross's Goose in Norfolk, Pied-billed Grebe and House Crow in County Cork (both on Great Island), Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, and five Northern Long-tailed Tits together in Kent.

Scarcities included 32 Shorelarks, 17 Tundra Bean Geese, nine Great Grey Shrikes, four each of Great White Egret, Glaucous Gull and Caspian Gull, three each of American Wigeon, Rough-legged Buzzard and Ring-billed Gull, two each of Ring-necked Duck and Black Brant, and single Lesser Snow Goose (Somerset), Green-winged Teal (Gloucestershire), Little Auk (Ayrshire) and Iceland Gull (Suffolk).
Chris Batty, RBA
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