Wednesday 5th December 2012
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Pacific Diver in Cornwall at Marazion. As the bird is an adult, it is presumably the same as that intermittently reported from Cornwall, and previously accepted as being present in Mount's Bay between 17th February-10th March and 23rd-29th November 2007, and 2nd November 2009, visiting Porthpean between 10th December 2007 and 29th March 2008, and Hayle on 19th November-9th December 2009. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the American Coot in County Galway, Pied-billed Grebe on the Western Isles, Desert Wheatear in Aberdeenshire, Subalpine Warbler and Dusky Warbler in Cornwall, three Penduline Tits in Cambridgeshire, Baird's Sandpiper in County Kerry, Lesser Yellowlegs in both Devon and Lancashire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Dorset, Lesser Scaups in both Cornwall and County Kerry, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset and Glossy Ibis in Hampshire. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Temminck's Stint (Somerset), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Ring-billed Gull (County Wicklow), American Wigeon (West Yorkshire), Surf Scoter (County Waterford), and Ring-necked Duck (Devon, County Kerry and Leicestershire). Waxwings were recorded across 42 counties between Highland, Aberdeen, Cornwall and Kent, and including flocks of 300 in Angus, 240 Leicestershire, 200 Clyde and Cumbria, 150 Kent, 101 Cambridgeshire, and 100 in both South Yorkshire and Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA