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Sunday 9th March 2014  
  Long staying rarities still present today included the American Coot in Highland, Pied-billed Grebe and Marsh Sandpiper on the Western Isles, Red-flanked Bluetail on the Gloucestershire /Wiltshire border, Ross's Gull in County Cork, American Herring Gull and Bonaparte's Gull in Argyll (another of the latter in Glamorgan), Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Warwickshire and Kent (two), Penduline Tit in Kent, Little Bunting in Lincolnshire, King Eiders in Fife, Lothian, County Cork and County Mayo, Lesser Scaup in Cornwall and Two-barred Crossbills in Gloucestershire, Kent, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (six).

A very early Wryneck was seen at St Brides, Pembrokeshire, whilst common spring migrants were topped by an exceptionally early singing Grasshopper Warbler at Spurn, Yorkshire and a singing Turtle Dove at Aldreth, Cambridgeshire, along with a Ring Ouzel, 11 Wheatears, 13 Sand Martins, two Swallows, two Ospreys and five Garganey.
Will Soar, RBA
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