Wednesday 4th January 2012
	Lingering rarities comprised Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Greater Yellowlegs in Highland, Lesser Yellowlegs in Somerset, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, Northumberland and Gloucestershire, Glossy Ibises in Lancashire, Isles of Scilly and Devon, Red-breasted Goose in Devon, Spotted Sandpipers in Somerset and Devon, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Blue-winged Teal and two Long-billed Dowitchers in Dorset, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire and Bonaparte's Gull in Co Antrim. The best of the rest included a Yellow-browed Warblers in Somerset and Cornwall, Richard's Pipit in Dorset, Bluethroat in Co Waterford and Temminck's Stint in Cambridgeshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA