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Sunday 9th October 2011  
  New discoveries today included a Red-eyed Vireo on Lewis, Western Isles, a Red-throated Pipit at Spurn, Yorkshire, an Olive-backed Pipit on Whalsay, Shetland, a Red-footed Falcon at Christchurch, Dorset and a Lesser Scaup in Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Extra Glossy Ibises joined lingering birds in County Wexford and Suffolk, whilst one seen at Newport Wetlands, Gwent may have been the recent Ceredigion bird. A second Richardson's Canada Goose arrived on Islay, Argyll.

Long staying rarity highlights included Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Snipe, Upland Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, two Lesser Yellowlegs' and an American Golden Plover in the Isles of Scilly, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit and Daurian Shrike in Shetland, Bonaparte's Gull in Orkney, single Long-billed Dowitchers in Ayrshire, Ceredigion and Dumfries and Galloway, single Lesser Yellowlegs' in Cornwall and Western Isles and single Spotted Sandpipers in Somerset and Devon.
Will Soar, RBA
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