Friday 25th November 2011
	Today was the second day in a row that no new rarities were reported, and was significantly quieter than the last few weeks. Rarity highlights included the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper for its 8th day in Somerset, at Chew Valley Lake, along with the two Long-billed Dowitchers and Spotted Sandpiper, Bufflehead at Helston, Cornwall and Least Sandpiper at Black Rock Strand, County Kerry Other rarities seen were Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler at Wyke Regis, Dorset, Desert Wheatear at Bempton Cliffs RSPB, Yorkshire, Dusky Warbler on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, single Glossy Ibises in Dorset and Kent and single Spotted Sandpipers in Devon and Dorset. Scarcities included a Night Heron in County Kerry, Hoopoe in County Louth, Rose-coloured Starlings in Dorset and Essex, American Wigeon in Devon and Yorkshire, Ring-necked Ducks in Cornwall and Somerset, Green-winged Teals in Northumberland and Dumfries and Galloway, Rough-legged Buzzards in Norfolk (2+), Cambridgeshire and Sussex and Yellow-browed Warblers in Norfolk and the Isles of Scilly (3). Also seven Grey Phalaropes, ten Great Grey Shrikes, 14 Taiga Bean Geese and at least 153 Tundra Bean Geese.
-  Will Soar, RBA