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Sunday 1st November 2015  
  The highlight of the day was another Pallid Swift, today in Cleveland at Boulby. Rarities elsewhere comprised both Red-flanked Bluetail and Dusky Warbler in Kent, Gull-billed Tern and Lesser Scaup in County Kerry, Long-billed Dowitcher in Hampshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Norfolk, single White-rumped Sandpipers in both Aberdeenshire and Northumberland, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan, Ferruginous Duck in County Durham, and Northern Harrier still on the Orkney Isles.

Scarcities included at total of eight Cattle Egrets, six Richard's Pipits, four Glossy Ibises, three each of Red-breasted Flycatcher, American Wigeon and Ring-necked Duck, two of both Serin and American Golden Plover, single Purple Heron and Shorelark (both Norfolk), Barred Warbler and Surf Scoter (both Lothian), Wryneck (Devon), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Wexford) and Ring-billed Gull (Cornwall).
Chris Batty, RBA
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