Sunday 12th February 2012
	In The Scillies, a new Dusky Warbler was found today. This one was on Tresco, with the other over-wintering bird still to be found at Harry's Walls on St.Mary's.  In Highland there was a report of an American Buff-bellied Pipit at Dornoch in recent days, although it was not reported today. Of 18 Glossy Ibises in South Wales and the South West, most were lingering birds, but one at Wareham in Dorset was new. There were Red-breasted Geese in Essex, Suffolk and Dumfries and Galloway. Other lingering rarities included Paddyfield Warbler in West Sussex, Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Pallid Harrier in County Galway, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Lesser Scaups in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and County Kerry, Blue-winged Teal on The Scillies, Snowy Owl in County Derry, two Long-billed Dowitchers in County Wexford, Spotted Sandpipers in Devon and Dorset, and Lesser White-fronted Goose and two different Coue's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk (at Titchwell and at Kelling). There were still large numbers of Iceland Gulls, mostly in the north and west and still plenty of Smew in southern and eastern England.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA