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Friday 10th April 2009  
  New discoveries today included in County Cork a Subalpine Warbler on Mizen Head and a Great White Egret at Glounthaune, in County Dublin a Bonaparte's Gull on the Swords Estuary and on the Isle of Scilly a Red-rumped Swallow on St Martin's. 

Lingering rarities comprised the Bonaparte's Gull on the Western Isles, single Lesser Scaups in both Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire, the Great White Egret in Clyde, Hooded Merganser in Dorset, Cattle Egrets in Cornwall (3), Cheshire, Devon, Dorset and Pembrokeshire and, in Norfolk, the unidentified American or Pacific Golden Plover remained.

Scarcities were represented by six Ring-necked Ducks, three each of Wryneck and Green-winged Teal, two each of Hoopoe, Lesser Snow Goose, Great Grey Shrike and Lapland Bunting and single Kentish Plover, Purple Heron, Surf Scoter and Rough-legged Buzzard.
Chris Batty, RBA
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