Sunday 20th November 2011
	New discoveries today included Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Norfolk at Great Yarmouth, and in Suffolk at Lowestoft (where it joined the lingering individual briefly), Desert Wheatear in County Dublin at North Bull Island, Dusky Warbler in Cornwall at Porthgwarra, a Gyr Falcon in Highland at Findhorn Valley, American Golden Plover in Aberdeenshire on the Ythan Estuary and two Penduline Tits together at Grove Ferry, Kent. Lingering rarities comprised the Veery in Highland, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper and two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Greater Yellowlegs, Eastern Black Redstart, Lesser Scaup and two Ross's Geese in Northumberland, Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Snipe and two Dusky Warblers on the Isles of Scilly, Brown Shrike in Argyll, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Pallid Harrier in County Cork, Desert Wheatear in Devon, two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers on the Shetland Isles, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cleveland, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Dorset, Red-breasted Geese in both Devon and Essex, Lesser Yellowlegs on Anglesey, Blue-winged Teal in County Dublin, Ferruginous Ducks in both County Armagh and Berkshire, and Glossy Ibises in Anglesey, Dorset, Essex and Kent.
-  Chris Batty, RBA