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Monday 7th November 2011  
  New rarities discovered today comprised Dusky Warblers in both Dorset at Portland Bill, and Norfolk at Holme, on the Isles of Scilly American Herring Gull (Tresco) and Olive-backed Pipit (St Agnes), on the Shetland Isles Olive-backed Pipit (Fair Isle) and White-billed Diver (Bluemull Sound), in County Wexford American Golden Plover (South Slob) and White-rumped Sandpiper (Tacumshin), and in Devon a White-rumped Sandpiper (Axe Estuary).

Relocating rare wildfowl were represented by the Bufflehead at Helston, Cornwall, Red-breasted Goose in Devon at Exminster Marshes, and the Marbled Duck in Lancashire, now at Martin Mere.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Isabelline Wheatear in Glamorgan, Brown Shrike in Argyll, Desert Wheatear in Cornwall, Daurian Shrike in Pembrokeshire, American Buff-bellied Pipit in County Cork, Dusky Warblers in both Aberdeenshire and Suffolk, Wilson's Snipe, Lesser Yellowlegs and White-rumped Sandpiper on the Isles of Scilly, Semipalmated Sandpiper on the Western Isles, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, American Golden Plover on the Western Isles, White-rumped Sandpipers in both Gwynedd and the Western Isles, Ferruginous Duck in Lincolnshire and Glossy Ibises in Devon, Dorset and North Yorkshire.
Chris Batty, RBA
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