Thursday 24th November 2011
	Rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the Veery in Highland, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper and two Long-billed Dowitchers together in Somerset, Greater Yellowlegs and two Ross's Geese in Northumberland, Wilson's Snipe and two Dusky Warblers on the Isles of Scilly, Bufflehead in Cornwall, American Buff-bellied Pipit in County Waterford, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cleveland, Penduline Tit and Glossy Ibis in Kent, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon and the Azorean Yellow-legged Gull, now in the West Midlands. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starlings in Anglesey and Dorset, Red-breasted Flycatcher on the Isles of Scilly, American Wigeons in Leicestershire and West Yorkshire, and Ring-necked Ducks in both Cornwall and Somerset. A total of 104 Tundra Bean Geese were reported across nine counties between the Shetland Isles and Essex, including 91 in Lincolnshire. Significant late news concerns two new Desert Wheatears: a female on 22nd November in County Waterford at Brownstown Head, and a male on 19th November at Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA