Sunday 6th November 2011
	An exciting day for new discoveries, although the Rufous Turtle Dove, Pallid Harrier and Desert Wheatear in Cornwall (all between Porthgwarra and Polgigga), Pine Bunting on the Isles of Scilly, Pallid Harrier on the Western Isles, Black Kite in Dorset, Glossy Ibis in Devon and Little Bunting in County Cork were all just brief encounters, whilst a Penduline Tit in West Yorkshire and Wintersett Reservoir, a Dusky Warbler in Suffolk at North Warren, White-rumped Sandpiper on the Western Isles on South Uist, three Richardson's Canada Geese together in County Sligo at Lissadell, and the returning Forster's Tern in County Galway at Doorus, showed to more than just their finders. Lingering rarities comprised the Isabelline Wheatear still in Glamorgan, Brown Shrike in Argyll, Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Snipe, Great Reed Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs and White-rumped Sandpiper all on the Isles of Scilly, American Buff-bellied Pipit and Pallid Harrier in County Cork, Pine Bunting on the Shetland Isles, Steppe Grey Shrike in Shropshire, Daurian Shrike in Pembrokeshire, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Black Scoter in Northumberland, Squacco Heron in Nottinghamshire, Dusky Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, White-rumped Sandpipers in both Gwynedd and Leicestershire, two American Golden Plovers in County Cork, Small Canada Goose in County Donegal, Ferruginous Ducks in both Berkshire and Norfolk, and Glossy Ibis in Dorset, Kent and North Yorkshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA