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Sunday 1st January 2012  
  Rarities recorded around England today were the Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Blue-winged Teal in Dorset, Red-breasted Goose and Glossy Ibis in Devon, Red-breasted Goose and Glossy Ibis in Essex, Spotted Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Blue-winged Teal, Dusky Warbler and Glossy Ibis on the Isles of Scilly, Desert Wheatear and Lesser Scaup in Northumberland, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire, two Glossy Ibises together in Kent and a Glossy Ibis in Lancashire.

Elsewhere, in Scotland the Greater Yellowlegs remained in Highland, in Wales the Long-billed Dowitcher showed in Carmarthenshire, as did the Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, and in Ireland a Long-billed Dowitcher was found in County Wexford, the Bonaparte's Gull remained in County Antrim, and the Blue-winged Teal was seen again in County Dublin.
Chris Batty, RBA
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