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Wednesday 11th February 2015  
  The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the Slaty-backed Gull at Killybegs, County Donegal: the first sighting since 17th-18th January.

Rarities elsewhere comprised two White-billed Divers together in Highland at Loch Ewe, the Harlequin Duck still in Aberdeenshire, Laughing Gull on the Wirral, three Penduline Tits and a Bonaparte's Gull in Devon, King Eider in Cornwall, Blue-winged Teal on the Orkney Isles, and Lesser Scaup in both Ayrshire and Glamorgan.

Scarcities included Surf Scoter (Essex), Richard's Pipit and Cattle Egret (Kent), two Serins (Essex), three each of Little Bunting and Ring-necked Duck, four Rough-legged Buzzards and five American Wigeons. Other notable gulls totalled 13 Caspian, 10 Glaucous, seven Iceland, three Ring-billed and a Kumlien's.
Chris Batty, RBA
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