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Monday 20th February 2017  
  Rarities today comprised the Blue Rock Thrush still in Gloucestershire, Pine Buntings in both Kent and North Yorkshire, Red-flanked Bluetail in Glamorgan, Desert Wheatear in Devon, Eastern Black Redstart in Cleveland, Hume's Warbler on Dorset, Northern Harrier on the Orkney Isles, Pacific Divers in both Cornwall and Northumberland, Hudsonian Whimbrel in Cornwall, Black Scoter in County Kerry, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll and Bonaparte's Gulls in both Clyde and County Cork.

Scarcities included Bluethroat (Lincolnshire), Rose-coloured Starling (West Sussex), Little Bunting (Bedfordshire), Rough-legged Buzzard (Cambridgeshire), Surf Scoter (Conwy), Lesser Snow Goose (Lancashire), two Ring-necked Ducks, three each of Yellow-browed Warbler and Glossy Ibis, four American Wigeons, six each of Ring-billed Gull and Lapland Bunting, eight Great Grey Shrikes, 32 Cattle Egrets, and 36 Shorelarks.
Chris Batty, RBA
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