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Wednesday 24th February 2016  
  Rare wildfowl comprised Hooded Merganser (Wiltshire), Black Duck (Co Cork), King Eider (Co Sligo), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Co Sligo), Lesser Scaup (Cornwall and Glamorgan) and Ferruginous Duck (Norfolk). Long-billed Dowitchers in Leicestershire, Hampshire and Northumberland, Pacific Diver in Cornwall and two Penduline Tits in Gloucestershire also lingered.

The best of the rest included Hoopoe (West Midlands/Staffordshire), three Yellow-browed Warblers and three Richard's Pipits.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA