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Friday 22nd February 2008  
  Lingering rarities confirmed as still being present today comprised the White-crowned Sparrow and a Ross's Goose in Norfolk, Wilson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly, American Herring Gull in County Galway, King Eider in Devon, Great White Egret in Cambridgeshire, single Glossy Ibises in both Lancashire and Lincolnshire and Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Cleveland and Cornwall (2).

The most notable fresh discoveries today involved single Great White Egrets at Portesham and Burleston in Dorset and Fingringhoe Wick in Essex.

Cattle Egret reports today concerned seventeen in Cornwall, four in Dorset and two in Devon.
-  Chris Batty, RBA