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Saturday 2nd November 2019  
  A Blue-winged Teal was discovered at Milngavie, Clyde.

Lingering rarities seen today included the Paddyfield Pipit in Cornwall, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Black Scoter and Long-billed Dowitcher in Northumberland, another Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Short-billed Dowitcher in County Louth, Kentish Plover in Cleveland and a Lesser Yellowlegs and three White-rumped Sandpipers in Western Isles.

Scarcity highlights included a Bluethroat, a Little Bunting, two Pallas's Warblers, two Red-breasted Flycatchers, two Shorelarks, three Great Grey Shrikes, eight Lapland Buntings, 27 Waxwings, an American Golden Plover, two Grey Phalaropes, two Leach's Petrels, two Long-tailed Skuas, five Pomarine Skuas, four Balearic Shearwaters, three Little Auks, a Surf Scoter, a Ring-necked Duck, two Green-winged Teals, a Black Brant, 26 Taiga Bean Geese, a Glossy Ibis, two Glaucous Gulls and four Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA