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Sunday 18th November 2012  
  The first Asian Desert Warbler for over 12 years was seen briefly mid morning, at Samphire Hoe Country Park, Kent. It was photographed by the finder, before it disappeared, not to be seen again by dusk. Also in Kent, a smart male Desert Wheatear spent the afternoon on Harty Marshes, Isle of Sheppey.

Other new discoveries today included a Dusky Warbler in Winspit, Dorset, a stunning white morph Gyr on South Uist, Western Isles and a Lesser Scaup on St John's Loch, Highland. Growing 'flocks' of rarities included now seven Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on Unst, Shetland, four American Golden Plovers on Myroe Levels, County Derry and a second American Buff-bellied Pipit joined the long staying individual on Corbett's Beach, County Down.

Long staying rarities confirmed as still present today included the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler in Fife, Northern Harrier in County Wexford, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, White-rumped Sandpiper in Staffordshire, Lesser Yellowlegs' in Devon and Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Northumberland and Gloucestershire, single Red-breasted Geese in Cumbria and Hampshire and Richardson's Canada Goose in Dumfries and Galloway.

Waxwings were seen in 51 counties.
Will Soar, RBA
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