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Saturday 17th November 2012  
  Rarities seen today comprised the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler still in Fife, American Buff-bellied Pipit in County Down, Hooded Merganser in West Sussex, Red-breasted Geese in both Cumbria and Hampshire, Richardson's Canada Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitchers in both Gloucestershire and Northumberland, White-rumped Sandpiper in Staffordshire, American Golden Plovers in Cumbria and County Wexford (2), and Glossy Ibis in Pembrokeshire.

Scarce migrants included Pallas's Warbler (two in Kent), Serin (Dorset), Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall and Norfolk), Yellow-browed Warbler (Gloucestershire), Surf Scoter (Norfolk, and four together in Conwy), and Richard's Pipit (three in Norfolk, two in Hampshire, and singles in London and County Wexford).

Waxwings
were logged across 43 counties between the Western Isles, Orkney Isles, Devon and Suffolk, with site maximums including 780 in Highland, 120 in Lancashire, and 100 each in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
Chris Batty, RBA
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