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Friday 13th June 2014  
  In Hampshire the Short-toed Eagle reappeared in the Hatchet Pond area of the New Forest, being seen mid morning and again mid afternoon. Further north, the Black-winged Pratincole made a brief appearance at Saltholme RSPB, Cleveland, before it flew south.

New discoveries today included a singing Thrush Nightingale on Portland, Dorset, a Western Subalpine Warbler and a Blyth's Reed Warbler on Fair Isle, Shetland (with another of the latter also at Virkie, Shetland), a second Bonaparte's Gull at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, Devon (joining the long staying Bonaparte's and Ross's Gulls) and a Black Kite over Culswick, Shetland. Another Black Kite was found in Suffolk, but was seen to be bearing a white ring, and is therefore assumed to be of captive origin. The number of Black-winged Stilts at the two breeding sites increased, with three eggs hatching at Cliffe, Kent, and two hatching at Medmerry, Sussex.

Other lingering rarities seen today included the Spectacled Warbler in Norfolk, Savi's Warbler in Suffolk, Lesser Scaup in Cheshire and King Eider in Aberdeenshire.
Will Soar, RBA
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