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Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

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Saturday 15th March 2014  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Great Spotted Cuckoo in Pembrokeshire, American Coot and Black Duck in Highland, American Herring Gull in Argyll, Long-billed Dowitcher and Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire, single King Eiders in County Cork and Shetland, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, Red-breasted Goose in Dumfries and Galloway (together with the colour-ringed individual) and Two-barred Crossbills in Gloucestershire (14), Yorkshire (five), Lincolnshire and Surrey.

Single Hoopoes were in Cornwall and Dumfries and Galloway, whilst commoner migrants included eight Garganey, a Cuckoo, an Osprey, a Ring Ouzel, a Garden Warbler and three Yellow Wagtails.
-  Will Soar, RBA