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Friday 29th January 2010  
  An adult Bonaparte's Gull was discovered on the South Gare (Cleveland) this afternoon, whilst on Anglesey the adult Bonaparte's Gull lingered at Traeth Lligwy. Elsewhere lingering rarities included Black Kite in Powys, Black-throated Thrush in North Yorkshire, Thayer's Gull and Forster's Tern in Co Galway, Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Glossy Ibises in Somerset and Little Bunting in Highland.

The best of the rest came in the form of Ring-necked Ducks in Lancashire, Norfolk and Co Donegal, American Wigeons in Lancashire and Dumfries & Galloway, Green-winged Teals in Leicestershire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Lancashire and Co Clare, Great White Egrets in Glamorgan and Cambridgeshire and Cattle Egrets in Cornwall (3) and Devon.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA