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Tuesday 28th October 2014  
  A Franklin's Gull at Blashford Lakes HWT (Hampshire) was presumably the same bird seen there on 19th October. Elsewhere new discoveries included a Desert Wheatear in Pembrokeshire, Radde's Warbler on Isles of Scilly, Little Bunting in East Sussex and Red-flanked Bluetail in Co Mayo.

Lingering rarities included Siberian Stonechat in Hampshire, Spotted Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, Forster's Tern in Co Dublin and Pallid Harrier in Somerset, whilst White-winged Black Tern (East Sussex), Pallas's Warbler (West Sussex), Richard's Pipit (Orkney), American Golden Plover and Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Hoopoe (Suffolk), Ortolan Bunting (Isles of Scilly), two Cattle Egrets, two Red-backed Shrikes, two American Wigeons, two Barred Warblers, four Ring-necked Ducks, seven Red-breasted Flycatchers and 16 Rough-legged Buzzards were also logged.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA