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Sunday 20th July 2014  
  Continuing rarities today comprised the Black-winged Pratincole still in Cambridgeshire, Collared Pratincole and family party of six Black-winged Stilts in Suffolk, Ross's Gull in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Laughing Gull in County Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, and the family of five Black-winged Stilts in West Sussex. Otherwise, a Black Kite was seen briefly in Berkshire.

Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (London), Long-tailed Skua (Lothian), White Stork (Oxfordshire), Red-backed Shrike and Temminck's Stint (both Norfolk), Spotted Crake (Dorset and Gloucestershire), Glossy Ibis (Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Oxfordshire) and nine Great White Egrets.

Late news concerned a Black-winged Stilt at Shapwick Heath, Somerset on 13th July.
Chris Batty, RBA
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