Monday 29th October 2012
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Dusky Warbler inland in Norfolk, at Lynford Arboretum. Elsewhere, four White-rumped Sandpipers were counted at Tacumshin, County Wexford, a Richardson's Canada Goose was identified in Dumfries and Galloway at Loaningfoot, and a Forster's Tern returned to Galway, County Galway. On the Isles of Scilly a Blackpoll Warbler remained along with four Red-breasted Flycatchers, three Yellow-browed Warblers, a Serin and a Barred Warbler. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present comprised the Siberian Rubythroat on the Shetland Isles, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Desert Wheatear in Essex, Siberian Stonechat in Devon, Olive-backed Pipit in Cornwall, two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on the Western Isles, Bee-eater in Dorset, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Red-breasted Geese in both Argyll and Hampshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon Lancashire and Lincolnshire, American Golden Plovers in Cumbria, Orkney Isles and County Wexford (2), White-rumped Sandpipers in Highland and Norfolk, Lesser Scaups in County Cork and Somerset, and four Richardson's Canada Geese together in Argyll.
-  Chris Batty, RBA