Tuesday 15th February 2011
	In Oxfordshire the Rufous Turtle Dove disappointed most would-be observers when it disappeared after making a brief early morning visit to No.41 The Leys, Chipping Norton - there was no further sign of it by dusk. Despite the fact that most of today's attention was focussed on a small town in Oxfordshire, the Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Ross's Goose in Cumbria, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Co Durham were all confirmed as still being present. A White-billed Diver was reported off Lewis, Western Isles. The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling in Cornwall, Great White Egrets in Somerset (6) and Suffolk and Ring-necked Ducks in Cornwall, Carmarthenshire and Lancashire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA