Friday 23rd December 2011
	Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Western Sandpiper, Coues's Arctic Redpoll and Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Greater Yellowlegs in Highland, Wilson's Snipe and Blue-winged Teal on the Isles of Scilly, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset, Desert Wheatear and Lesser Scaup in Northumberland, King Eider in Moray, Blue-winged Teal in County Dublin, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, and Glossy Ibises in Essex, Kent (2) and Lancashire. Scarcities included Bluethroat (County Waterford), Pectoral Sandpiper (Ayrshire), Temminck's Stint (Leicestershire), Surf Scoter (Cornwall, Devon and County Galway), American Wigeon (Dumfries and Galloway and Herefordshire), Ring-necked Duck (Cornwall and Norfolk) and Snow Goose (County Donegal). 108 Tundra Bean Geese were logged across six counties.
-  Chris Batty, RBA