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Thursday 27th October 2011  
  On the Isles of Scilly a Red-eyed Vireo was a new arrival, where the Northern Waterthrush remained alongside the Upland Sandpiper, Dusky Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs, Richard's Pipit, Spotted Crake, Pectoral Sandpiper, Lapland Bunting and seven Yellow-browed Warblers. Elsewhere, new rarities comprised single Dusky Warblers in Angus at Auchmithie, and the Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, a Blue-winged Teal in Dumfries and Galloway at Wigtown, and a Glossy Ibis at Stodmarsh, Kent.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present included the Siberian Rubythroat on the Shetland Isles, Brown Shrike in Argyll, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Pied Wheatear in Gloucestershire, Red-eyed Vireo in County Cork, Northern Harrier in County Wicklow, Daurian Shrike and at least one Pallid Swift in Norfolk, Olive-backed Pipit in North Yorkshire, Red-breasted Goose in Dorset, King Eider in Moray, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Baird's Sandpiper in County Wexford, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, White-rumped Sandpiper in Leicestershire, Glossy Ibis in County Wexford, Black-bellied Dipper in West Yorkshire, and American Golden Plovers in Argyll, County Mayo and the Western Isles (2).

A total of ten Pallas's Warblers were logged, comprising singles in Aberdeenshire, Cornwall, East Yorkshire, Essex, Norfolk and West Sussex, and two each in both East Sussex and Kent.
Chris Batty, RBA
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