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Thursday 29th November 2012  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the American Coot at Murloch, County Galway, Pied-billed Grebe at Loch na Bagh, Western Isles, Subalpine Warbler in St Just, Cornwall, Desert Wheatear at Rhyl, Denbighshire, single Lesser Yellowlegs' in Devon, Lincolnshire and Lancashire, Blue-winged Teal at Ballylongford, County Kerry, Red-breasted Goose at Cardurnock, Cumbria and Glossy Ibis at Ham Wall RSPB, Somerset.

Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling in Cornwall, Yellow-browed Warbler in Gloucestershire, Surf Scoters in County Waterford and Conwy, American Wigeon in Yorkshire, Ring-necked Duck and Snow Goose in County Donegal (with another of the former on the Western Isles, and another of the latter in Highland), Green-winged Teal in Cumbria, Iceland Gull in Staffordshire and Glaucous Gulls in Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and Orkney (2).
-  Will Soar, RBA