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Wednesday 13th January 2010  
  In North Yorkshire, the female Black-throated Thrush continued to visit a garden in Newholm, near Whitby. In Cornwall, the juvenile Pallid Harrier was seen again as it went to roost at Men-an-Tol, but it wasn't seen during the day. Other lingering rarities included the American Eider in County Donegal and Little Bunting in Highland.

Scarcities seen today included a Kumlien's Gull in Northamptonshire, Ring-necked Ducks in Cornwall and Yorkshire, Green-winged Teal in Hampshire, Waxwings in Lancashire, Norfolk and Orkney, Snow Goose in Cumbria, Iceland Gulls in Cheshire, County Fermanagh and Argyll, Ring-billed Gull in Hampshire, Todd's Canada Goose in Gloucestershire, Great White Egret in Cambridgeshire, Cattle Egret in Cornwall and a Lapland Bunting in London.
-  Will Soar, RBA