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Monday 9th June 2014  
  In Cambridgeshire a Squacco Heron was discovered on the Ouse Washes and in Co Galway a Forster's Tern was at at Inishroo. A flyover Black Kite was reported in Warwickshire.

Lingering rarities comprised Spectacled Warbler in Norfolk, Greenish Warbler and three Two-barred Crossbills in Lothian, Ross's Gull and Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, pair of Black-winged Stilts in West Sussex and Savi's Warbler in Suffolk.

The best of the rest included Hoopoe in Cornwall, Rose-coloured Starling in Anglesey, Ring-necked Duck in Angus, Red-necked Phalaropes in Gloucestershire and Argyll, Red-backed Shrike in East Yorkshire, Marsh Warblers in Essex, Co Cork and Shetland, Cattle Egrets in Somerset and Isle of Wight and Glossy Ibises in Oxfordshire, Kent, Leicestershire and South Yorkshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA