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Monday 20th February 2012  
  In Highland the Greater Yellowlegs was relocated in Dornoch, 3.5 miles south of Loch Fleet, where it was last seen on 13th January. A Penduline Tit was discovered at Dungeness RSPB (Kent).

Lingering rarities included the Common Yellowthroat in Gwent, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, Cornwall and Gloucestershire, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Red-breasted Goose in Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk and Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset. Glossy Ibises lingered in Lancashire and Dorset.
Stuart Piner, RBA