Sunday 3rd March 2013
	Headline rarities comprised the lingering Harlequin Duck on Western Isles and Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset. The Penduline Tit in Kent, Desert Wheatear in Aberdeenshire, American Coot and Forster's Tern in Co Galway, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, Glossy Ibises in Pembrokeshire and Hampshire, Ferruginous Duck (2) in Somerset, Lesser Scaup in Cheshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Pembrokeshire and Co Wexford, Richardson's Canada Geese in Co Sligo (3) and Dumfries & Galloway and Black-bellied Dipper in Norfolk were all recorded. The best of the rest included White-tailed Eagle in Norfolk, Pallas's Warbler on the Berkshire/ Hampshire border and Common Rosefinch in Dorset.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA