Tuesday 3rd December 2024
	Discoveries today included an Olive-backed Pipit in Cornwall at Helston with a White-billed Diver reported passing Pendeen Watch, and in Devon a Dusky Warbler briefly at Dawlish Warren. Continuing rarities confirmed as still present were both American Coot and Bufflehead on Shetland, Hume's Warbler in Kent, Pallid Harriers in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire, Dusky Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Cornwall, Lesser Scaups in Cambridgeshire, Fife, Somerset, and Staffordshire, and Ferruginous Ducks in Hertfordshire (2), London, and Warwickshire (2).
-  Chris Batty, RBA