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Wednesday 19th February 2014  
  Rarities today comprised the American Coot still in Highland, Pied-billed Grebe on the Western Isles, Red-flanked Bluetail in Wiltshire, Forster's Tern and King Eider in County Mayo, Laughing Gull in Cornwall, Ross's Gull in County Cork, two Penduline Tits in Kent, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Warwickshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, King Eider in Fife, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, a Marbled Duck in Northamptonshire, and Two-barred Crossbills in Gloucestershire (10), Kent, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire (7). In Kent the probable Chinese Pond Heron remains in Saltwood.

Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler (Kent), Serin (Isle of Scilly), American Wigeon (County Armagh), three each of both Rough-legged Buzzard and Ring-necked Duck, seven Glossy Ibises, eight Surf Scoters, 17 Lapland Buntings and 23 Parrot Crossbills. Gull tallies included 38 Glaucous, 22 Iceland, 10 Caspian, nine Kumlien's and five Ring-billed.
Chris Batty, RBA
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