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Wednesday 7th December 2011  
  Long staying rarities seen today included the Western Sandpiper at Cley, Norfolk, Greater Yellowlegs at East Chevington, Northumberland, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, Least Sandpiper at Black Rock Strand, County Kerry, Bufflehead at Helston, Cornwall, American Buff-bellied Pipit at Clonea Strand, County Waterford, American Herring Gull at Baltimore, County Cork, single Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers at Dungeness, Kent and Weymouth, Dorset, Dusky Warbler at Lower Moors, Isles of Scilly, Blue-winged Teal at Longham Lakes, Dorset, Lesser Scaup at Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Spotted Sandpiper at Plymouth, Devon, Glossy Ibis at Fingringhoe Wick, Essex and single Desert Wheatears in Shropshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland.

Scarcity highlights included a Red-necked Phalarope and a Grey Phalarope together in Ayrshire (with others of the latter in Lancashire and Cleveland), Pectoral Sandpiper and Kumlien's Gull in London, single Yellow-browed Warblers in Devon, Conwy and Norfolk and single Great Grey Shrikes in Fife, Norfolk and Northumberland.
Will Soar, RBA
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