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Tuesday 17th February 2015  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall at Mawnan Smith.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Harlequin Duck still in Aberdeenshire (with another reported briefly in Highland), American Coot, Black Scoter and Lesser Scaup in County Kerry, Black Scoter and Ross's Goose in Northumberland, Laughing Gull still on the Wirral, King Eider in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, and Black-bellied Dipper in East Yorkshire.

Scarcities included Serin (Essex), two Surf Scoters, three each of Little Bunting, Richard's Pipit and Glossy Ibis, five American Wigeons, six Shorelarks, 10 Waxwings, 13 Rough-legged Buzzards and 20 Great Grey Shrikes. Further notable gulls were represented by 15 Iceland, 12 Glaucous, five Ring-billed and two Caspian.
Chris Batty, RBA
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