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Thursday 26th January 2012  
  Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Spanish Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco and Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire, Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Coues's Arctic Redpoll and Ross's Goose in the Netherlands, Bufflehead and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Ross's Gull in County Down, Red-breasted Geese in both Devon and Essex, Spotted Sandpipers in Devon, Dorset and Somerset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, and Glossy Ibises in Cheshire, Cornwall, Essex and Pembrokeshire (2).

The best of the rest included Richard's Pipit in Dorset, Temminck's Stint in Oxfordshire and single Yellow-browed Warblers in both Devon and Somerset, whilst scarce gulls remained in good numbers, with 173 Iceland, 20 Glaucous, six Caspian, five Kumlien's and four Ring-billed all logged today.
Chris Batty, RBA
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