Sunday 15th January 2012
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Gyr in County Kerry at Blennerville, two Penduline Tits new in Somerset at Portbury Wharf, a White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles off Burray, and a Ferruginous Duck in London at Thamesmead. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were both the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fromted Goose and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Pallid Harrier in County Galway, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Blue-winged Teal on the Isles of Scilly, Bonaparte's Gull in County Antrim, Spotted Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Long-billed Dowitchers in Carmarthenshire and County Wexford (2), Lesser Scaups in Aberdeenshire, Gloucestershire and County Kerry, Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire, and Glossy Ibises in Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon (2), Gwent, Lancashire, County Waterford (5) and County Wexford. Scarce gulls continue to be be discovered with 194 Iceland, 44 Glaucous, seven Ring-billed and six Kumlien's Gulls recorded.
-  Chris Batty, RBA