Tuesday 14th February 2012
	Lingering rare passerines included Paddyfield Warbler in West Sussex, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Dorset, Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Northern Long-tailed Tit in West Yorkshire, two Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk and the long-staying Northern Waterthrush remained on Isles of Scilly. Notable wildfowl records comprised Bufflehead in Cornwall, Lesser White-fronted Goose in Norfolk, Red-breasted Geese in Dumfries & Galloway, Suffolk and Devon, Blue-winged Teals in Dumfries & Galloway and Isles of Scilly, Taverner's Canada Goose in Dumfries & Galloway and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall and Glamorgan. Spotted Sandpipers lingered in Dorset and Devon and Glossy Ibises were logged on the Kent/East Sussex border, Dorset, Lancashire, Devon (2), Pembrokeshire (4) and Highland (5+).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA