Thursday 1st November 2012
	The first Bonaparte's Gull for Northamptonshire was seen in the roost at Boddington Reservoir this evening. Nearby, in Oxfordshire, a juvenile American Golden Plover roosted on the flood at Port Meadow late afternoon. A Red-throated Pipit was on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, whilst the leaf warbler in Ventnor, Isle of Wight for its fifth day was reidentified as a Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler. Lingering rarities included the Siberian Rubythroat on Fair Isle (present for ten days and counting), Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Sussex, Blyth's Reed Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Desert Wheatear in Essex, Forster's Tern in County Galway, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, two White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk, Lesser Yellowlegs' in Devon and Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Gloucestershire, Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire and Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll and Lesser Scaups in County Cork and Somerset.
-  Will Soar, RBA