Tuesday 30th October 2012
	The highlight of the day was news of a Pied-billed Grebe at Lough Baun, County Mayo, where it had first been seen yesterday. Elsewhere, a Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler was new in East Sussex at Beachy Head, as were a Siberian Stonechat in Essex at Southend, Penduline Tit in Kent at Oare Marshes, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on the Shetland Isles on Unst, and a Little Bunting at Hawling, Gloucestershire, On the Isles of Scilly a Blyth's Reed Warbler was identified, along with Little Bunting, two Red-breasted Flycatchers, Serin, Richard's Pipit, Lapland Bunting and a Chough. Lingering rarities included the Siberian Rubythroat on the Shetland Isles, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Desert Wheatear in Essex, Siberian Stonechats in Devon and Herefordshire, Olive-backed Pipit in Cornwall, Bee-eater in Dorset, Red-breasted Geese in both Argyll and Hampshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, Blue-wnged Teal in County Galway, Lesser Scaups in both County Cork and Somerset, two Richardson's Canada Geese in Argyll, Long-billed Dowitcher in Gloucestershire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Lancashire and Lincolnshire, White-rumped Sandpipers in Highland and Norfolk (2), American Golden Plover and Northern Harrier, both in County Wexford.
-  Chris Batty, RBA