Monday 26th December 2011
	Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Western Sandpiper, Coues's Arctic Redpoll and Ross's Goose in Norfolk, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Red-breasted Goose and Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Red-breasted Goose in Essex, Blue-winged Teal and Dusky Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Blue-winged Teal in Dorset, Lesser Scaups in both Gloucestershire and Somerset, and Glossy Ibis in Lancashire. Scarcities included Bluethroat (County Waterford), Yellow-browed Warbler (Devon), Great Shearwater (County Cork), Surf Scoter (Cornwall and Devon), American Wigeon (Devon, Dumfries and Galloway and Herefordshire), Ring-necked Duck (Cleveland, Dorset (2) and Norfolk), and Snow Goose (Argyll). A total of 62 Tundra Bean Geese were recorded across nine counties between Western Isles, Shropshire and Norfolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA