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Thursday 22nd November 2018  
  Discoveries today included a Hume's Warbler in Devon at Berry Head and a Dusky Warbler in Dorset at Abbotsbury Swannery.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Snowy Owl still on the Orkney Isles, three Coues's Arctic Redpolls and a King Eider in Norfolk and the Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset.

Scarcities included Richard's Pipit (East Yorkshire), Hoopoe (Cornwall), Great Grey Shrike (Suffolk), two each of Rose-coloured Starling, Rough-legged Buzzard and American Wigeon, three Surf Scoters, four Shorelarks, six Parrot Crossbills in England, 54 Cattle Egrets and a total of 308 Waxwings.
-  Chris Batty, RBA