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Sunday 21st March 2010  
  Five new Alpine Swifts were discovered today, with birds in Dorset, Cornwall (2), Sussex and Isle of Wight. A Black Kite was reported at Fineshade Wood, Northamptonshire, and seven Penduline Tits were seen at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk. The drake Black Duck was seen again on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.

Lingering rarities included the Bufflehead in Dorset, Glossy Ibises in County Wexford and Somerset (3), Little Bunting in Highland, two King Eiders in Moray, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, Snowy Owl in Western Isles, single Lesser Scaups in Somerset, Glamorgan (2) and Clyde and Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll.
-  Will Soar, RBA