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Monday 21st November 2011  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Least Sandpiper at Black Rock Strand, County Kerry. Elsewhere, a Penduline Tit was found in Lancashire at Leighton Moss, a Blue-winged Teal was new in County Wexford at Tacumshin, and in Cornwall a Desert Wheatear was found at Porthgwarra, as was a new Dusky Warbler on The Lizard.

The Blackpoll Warbler showed again in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with other lingering rarities comprising the Veery still in Highland, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper and two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Greater Yellowlegs, Eastern Black Redstart and two Ross's Geese in Northumberland, Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Snipe and two Dusky Warblers on the Isles of Scilly, Bufflehead and another Dusky Warbler in Cornwall, Pallid Harrier in County Cork, Desert Wheatears in both Devon and County Dublin, Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in both Norfolk and Suffolk, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cleveland, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Lesser Yellowlegs on Anglesey, Red-breasted Geese in both Devon and Essex, Blue-winged Teal in County Dublin, Ross's Goose in Norfolk, and Glossy Ibises in both Dorset and Kent.
Chris Batty, RBA
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