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Friday 2nd November 2012  
  New rarity discoveries today included a Little Bunting at Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, Coues's Arctic Redpoll on Fair Isle, Shetland, Red-throated Pipit at Tacumshin, County Wexford, Richardson's Canada Goose at Tayinloan, Argyll and American Golden Plover at Lough Foyle, County Derry.

Lingering rarities included Siberian Rubythroat on Fair Isle, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Blyth's Reed Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Sussex, Desert Wheatear in Essex, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Forster's Tern in County Galway, Long-billed Dowitcher in Gloucestershire, White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk and County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, American Golden Plovers in Oxfordshire and Cumbria, King Eider in Moray, Lesser Scaups in County Cork and Somerset, Red-breasted Geese in Hampshire and Argyll and Glossy Ibises in Somerset and County Cork.
-  Will Soar, RBA