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Thursday 30th January 2014  
  New discoveries included an Ivory Gull in Co Wexford and White-billed Diver in Aberdeenshire.

Lingering rarities comprised American Coot in Highland, Lesser Scaups in Cornwall, Staffordshire and Western Isles, Pacific Diver in Co Tyrone, Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Kent and Warwickshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire, Black Duck, Forster's Tern and King Eider in Co Mayo, American Buff-bellied Pipit  in Cheshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon and Two-barred Crossbills in Gloucestershire (7), Shropshire (3) and Norfolk.

The best of the rest included six Glossy Ibises, three Yellow-browed Warblers and both Serin and Rose-coloured Starling on Isles of Scilly.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA