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Saturday 3rd November 2012  
  The highlight of the day was a Red-rumped Swallow in Forth at Blackness. Elsewhere, new rarities comprised an American Golden Plover in Cambridgeshire at Ouse Fen, a Tawny Pipit briedly in Conwy at Great Ormes Head, and, on the Shetland Isles, Olive-backed Pipit on Unst, and a Black-bellied Dipper at Gulberwick.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Desert Wheatear in Essex, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in East Sussex, Bee-eater and Little Bunting in County Durham, Bonaparte's Gull in Northamptonshire, Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire, Lesser Scaups in both County Cork and Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper in County Clare, Long-billed Dowitcher in Gloucestershire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon and Lancashire, American Golden Plovers in County Clare, County Londonderry (2) and County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk and County Wexford (2), Glossy Ibis in Pembrokeshire and Somerset, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Leicestershire.

Scarce migrants included Bluethroat (Lincolnshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (County Cork and the Isles of Scilly), Richard's Pipit (Cornwall, Norfolk and Northumberland), Hoopoe (Dorset, Shetland Isles and Somerset), and four Surf Scoters together (in Conwy).
Chris Batty, RBA
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