Saturday 1st March 2014
	With no new rarities discovered today, it was left to the long stayers to provide today's highlights. The American Coot, Black Duck and Lesser Scaup all remained in Highland, with the American Herring Gull a little further south in Argyll, the Blue-winged Teal in Dumfries and Galloway and the King Eider in Fife rounding off the Scottish rarities. South of the border, the Red-flanked Bluetail on the Wiltshire /Gloucestershire boundary continued to attract admirers. Two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers remained in Warwickshire and Kent, as did the Little Bunting in Lincolnshire, Long-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs and Ferruginous Duck in Hampshire and Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire. Two-barred Crossbills were seen in Gloucestershire (12) and Yorkshire (five), and the probable Chinese Pond Heron was still in Kent. The only Irish rarity was the King Eider in County Cork.
-  Will Soar, RBA