Sunday 4th December 2011
	Two more late autumn rarities were discovered today, one being a Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler at Dungeness, Kent, and the other a Desert Wheatear at Newbiggin, Northumberland. Other rarity highlights seen today were the Western Sandpiper in Norfolk, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Somerset, Greater Yellowlegs in Northumberland, Siberian Stonechat in Cleveland, Bufflehead in Cornwall and American Buff-bellied Pipit in County Waterford. Other lingering rarities included the Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, single Desert Wheatears in Shropshire and Yorkshire, single Blue-winged Teals in Dorset and County Dublin, two Long-billed Dowitchers in Somerset, single Spotted Sandpipers in Essex and Somerset, Dusky Warbler in the Isles of Scilly and single Red-breasted Geese in Essex and Devon.
-  Will Soar, RBA