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