Sunday 13th November 2011
	Breaking news today concerned two Desert Wheatears together in County Wicklow at Bray Head, Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Suffolk at Gunton and on the Shetland Isles on Trondra, Dusky Warblers in East Yorkshire, at both Flamborough head and Spurn Point (2), in Norfolk, at both Blakeney Point and Horsey, and in Suffolk at Orford Ness, a Little Bunting on St Mary's Isles of Scilly, a White-billed Diver in Aberdeenshire at St Combs, and an American Golden Plover at Ardmore Point, County Armagh. In Argyll a candidate juvenile Thayer's Gull was present for its second day at Dunstaffnage Bay, although the possibility of it being a hybrid has not been eliminated. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Greater Yellowlegs in Northumberland, Eastern Black Redstart in Kent, Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Snipe and Lesser Yellowlegs on the Isles of Scilly, Bufflehead in Cornwall, American Buff-bellied Pipit and Pallid Harrier in County Cork, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cleveland, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, Long-billed Dowitchers in both Somerset (2) and Dumfries and Galloway, Lesser Yellowlegs on Anglesey, American Golden Plover on the Western Isles, White-rumped Sandpiper in County Cork, Red-breasted Goose in Devon, White-billed Diver in Devon, King Eider in Moray, Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Staffordshire, Lesser Scaup in Northumberland, two Richardson's Canada Geese in Argyll, Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire, two Ross's Geese together in Northumberland, and Glossy Ibis in Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex and Kent.
-  Chris Batty, RBA