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Saturday 24th 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 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, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and Somerset, and Glossy Ibises in Essex, Kent (2) and Lancashire. In County Antrim a Bonaparte's Gull was located at Ballygally.

Scarcities included Bluethroat (County Waterford), Pectoral Sandpiper (Ayrshire), Temminck's Stint (Leicestershire), Surf Scoter (Cornwall and Devon), American Wigeon (Dumfries and Galloway and Herefordshire), Snow Goose (County Donegal) and Ring-necked Duck (Cornwall, Dorset, Norfolk and County Westmeath (3).
Chris Batty, RBA
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