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Thursday 3rd November 2011  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Desert Wheatear on North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles, with a Dusky Warbler present nearby; in Holm. Elsewhere a Pallid Harrier paid a brief appearance to Plymouth, Devon, a Lesser Scaup was new in Somerset at Chew Valley Lake, as was a Ferruginous Duck at Cheddar Reservoir, and in Ireland a Little Bunting arrived in County Donegal on Tory Island, and an American Golden Plover was found on the Swords Estuary, County Dublin.

Lingering rarities comprised the Brown Shrike still in Argyll, Steppe Grey Shrike in Shropshire, Daurian Shrike in Pembrokeshire, Squacco Heron in Nottinghamshire, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Cork and Leicestershire, Glossy Ibis in both Dorset and North Yorkshire, Ferruginous Ducks in Berkshire, Lincolnshire and Somerset, and, on the Isles of Scilly, Dusky Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs and White-rumped Sandpiper.

Single Pallas's Warblers remained in Devon, Dorset and Suffolk.
Chris Batty, RBA
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