Tuesday 22nd February 2011
	Having made a brief appearance on Sunday 20th, a first-winter American Herring Gull reappeared at Seaforth LWT (Merseyside) for twenty minutes over the high tide this afternoon. In Oxfordshire the Rufous Turtle Dove lingered in Chipping Norton and elsewhere long-stayers included Pacific Diver in Cornwall, Lesser Scaups in Gloucestershire and Cornwall and Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset. The Slaty-backed Gull was reported again at Rainham Marshes RSPB, a Ferruginous Duck remained in Suffolk, a King Eider was seen off Unst (Shetland) and three Northern Long-tailed Tits reappeared in Kent. In East Yorkshire at Coues's Arctic Redpoll was identified at Allerthorpe Common.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA