Saturday 5th February 2011
	The highlight of the day was the presence of both Forster's Tern and American Herring Gull in County Galway. Elsewhere, lingering rarities comprised the Red-breasted Goose still in Hampshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, single Lesser Scaups in Cornwall, Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, two Coues's Arctic Redpolls together in County Durham, Ferruginous Duck and two Ross's Geese in Norfolk and six Northern Long-tailed Tits in Kent. Scarcities included 24 Shorelarks, 15 Lapland Buntings, 12 Tundra Bean Geese, 10 Iceland Gulls, seven each of both Great White Egret and Glaucous Gull, six Ring-billed Gulls, five Caspian Gulls, three Ring-necked Ducks, two each of American Wigeon, Rough-legged Buzzard, Great Grey Shrike, Green-winged Teal and Black Brant (Norfolk), and single Little Auk (Isle of Man), Rose-coloured Starling and Cattle Egret (both Cornwall).
-  Chris Batty, RBA