Monday 17th December 2012
	Today's highlights included American Buff-bellied Pipit at Queen Mother Reservoir (Berkshire), Gyr on South Uist (Western Isles), Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls in Aldeburgh (Suffolk) and Unst (Shetland), Desert Wheatear at Rattray Head (Aberdeenshire), Subalpine Warbler in St Just (Cornwall), Richardson's Canada Goose at Mersehead RSPB (Dumfries & Galloway), Red-breasted Goose at Keyhaven Marshes (Hampshire) and Lesser Scaups in Somerset and Cornwall. The best of the rest included three Ring-necked Ducks (two in Cornwall and one in Somerset), Rose-coloured Starling in Devon, Temminck's Stint in Somerset, Yellow-browed Warbler in Conwy, American Wigeon in West Yorkshire and Grey Phalarope in Bedfordshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA