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Saturday 21st January 2012  
  Rare and scarce gulls continue to dominate the headlines, with the Ross's Gull still present in County Down, Bonaparte's Gulls in both County Antrim and Couunty Cork, eight each of both Ring-billed and Caspian, 19 Kumlien's, 46 Glaucous and 302 Iceland Gulls noted around Britain and Ireland today.

Other lingering rarities comprised both the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose, three Coues's Arctic Redpolls and Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Red-breasted Goose in Devon, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Northern Long-tailed Tit in West Yorkshire, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, and Glossy Ibises in Cornwall, Devon, Essex, Gwent (2), Kent (2), Lancashire and Pembrokeshire.
Chris Batty, RBA
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