Thursday 3rd March 2011
	Lingering rarities included the Rufous Turtle Dove in Oxfordshire, King Eider on Shetland, Bonaparte's Gull on Anglesey, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Co Durham, Pacific Diver and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire and Ferruginous Duck in Suffolk. In Kent the Northern Long-tailed Tits were still in Dymchurch and Ross's Geese remained in Norfolk and Cumbria. The White-tailed Eagle continued to show at Old Basing (Hampshire), a Rose-coloured Starling was still in a garden in Penzance (Cornwall), whilst in Oxfordshire the American Wigeon showed again at Rushy Common.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA