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Wednesday 11th January 2012  
  In Hampshire the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco both lingered.

Elsewhere the Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler (Dorset), Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Coues's Arctic Redpoll (Norfolk), Blue-winged Teal and Dusky Warbler (Isles of Scilly), Spotted Sandpipers (Somerset and Devon), Glossy Ibises (Lancashire, Kent, Essex and Devon), Desert Wheatear (East Yorkshire), Long-billed Dowitcher (Dumfries & Galloway), Bonaparte's Gull (Co Antrim) and Lesser Scaup (Gloucestershire) all remained on show.

On Orkney a probable Great Blue Heron was reported at Kirkwall, where it was present for its sixth day.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA