Thursday 27th February 2014
	On Shetland a white morph Gyr was discovered at Quarff (Mainland). Elsewhere lingering rarities included American Herring Gull and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, American Coot, Black Duck and Bonaparte's Gull in Highland, Red-flanked Bluetail on the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border, Laughing Gull and King Eider in Co Cork, Ross's Gull in Co Dublin, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, two Penduline Tits in Kent and King Eider in Lothian. The probable Chinese Pond Heron lingered in Kent.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA