Tuesday 5th November 2013
	Rarities recorded today comprised White-rumped Sandpipers in Devon and the Western Isles (2), the Bonaparte's Gull still in Devon, Blue-winged Teal in Lincolnshire, Subalpine Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Little Bunting on the Orkney Isles, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, and Glossy Ibises in Essex, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire (2), Nottinghamshire and Suffolk. Scarcities included four Yellow-browed Warblers, three each of Rough-legged Buzzard, Shorelark and Lapland Bunting, two each of Hoopoe, Wryneck, Ring-billed Gull, Sabine's Gull and American Wigeon, and single Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Surf Scoter (County Cork), Richard's Pipit (Cleveland), Ring-necked Duck (Leicestershire), Common Rosefinch and Barred Warbler (East Yorkshire).
-  Chris Batty, RBA