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Saturday 30th January 2010  
  The first Pacific Diver for Ireland was discovered in County Galway today, an adult seen off Rinville Point, Oranmore. The county also continues to hold Thayer's Gull at Letterfrack and Forster's Tern on Claddagh Beach.

Wintering rarities still present today included the Black-throated Thrush in Yorkshire, Black Kite in Powys, Gyr and Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll, King Eider in Moray, Little Bunting in Highland, Bonaparte's Gull in Anglesey, three Glossy Ibises in Somerset, single Lesser Scaups in Cornwall and Glamorgan and a female Ferruginous Duck is present at Fairburn Ings, Yorkshire for its third day.

A probable American Robin was seen briefly in Skelton, Cleveland this afternoon.
-  Will Soar, RBA