This summary of unchecked reports covers mid November to mid December 2003. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Inch Lake (Co. Donegal), 6th December. King Eider Somateria spectabilis Unst (Shetland), 10th December; Leven (Fife), 13th-14th December. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii One past Cley, Salthouse and Weybourne (Norfolk), 16th November; South Nesting (Shetland), 17th-18th November. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Tacumshin (Co. Wexford), 24th November. Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus, Inch Lake, 6th December. American Coot Fulica americana Loch of Clickimin (Shetland), 30th November to 13th December. continued...American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica In addition to those mentioned in the last report, one on Benbecula (Western Isles), 10th November. Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes Smerwick Harbour (Co. Kerry), late November; Newgate Marsh (Pembrokeshire), 5th-7th December; Hayle Estuary (Cornwall), longstayer to at least 14th December. Forster's TernSterna forsteri Nimmo's Pier (Co. Galway), 26th November. Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis Ham/Rattar Mains (Highland), 6th-8th December. Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni In addition to those mentioned in the last report, one at Spurn (East Yorkshire), 9th-10th November. Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus Tacumshin, one present throughout November and into early December; East Runton (Norfolk), 21st November. Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus The influx mentioned in the last report continued, but with the largest flocks confined to Scotland and northeast England, including 120 in Dundee (Angus) on 12th November; 300 in Kirkcaldy (Fife) on 14th November; 300 in Edinburgh (Lothian) on 14th November; 250 in Jarrow (Co. Durham) on 21st November, with 300 there on 22nd-23rd November; 145 in Hemlington (Cleveland) on 24th November; 220