Friday 9th December 2011
	A Lesser Scaup on Wimbleball Lake, Somerset early afternoon was a new arrival, but a Coues's Arctic Redpoll confirmed at Titchwell RSPB, Norfolk has been present for over a week. Long staying rarities present today included the Western Sandpiper in Norfolk, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Somerset, Greater Yellowlegs in Northumberland, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Blue-winged Teal and two Dusky Warblers in the Isles of Scilly, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, single Desert Wheatears in Shropshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland and single Spotted Sandpipers in Devon and Somerset.
-  Will Soar, RBA