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Saturday 2nd March 2019  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Tengmalm's Owl at Tresta, Pied-billed Grebe at Loch of Spiggie and White-billed Diver at Kirkabister, all Shetland, Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Sculthorpe Moor, Norfolk, Penduline Tit at Crossness, London, Red-rumped Swallow at Porth Hellick, Scilly, Spotted Sandpipers at Ferrybank, County Wexford and Killongford, County Waterford, Long-billed Dowitcher at Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire and Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor, Dorset.

Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, a Richard's Pipit, two Little Buntings, two Great Grey Shrikes, six Yellow-browed Warblers, 26 Shorelarks, a Temminck's Stint, a Pomarine Skua, two Rough-legged Buzzards, two Glossy Ibises, a Snow Goose, four Tundra Bean Geese, an American Wigeon, two Surf Scoters, five Ring-necked Ducks, six Green-winged Teal, a Ring-billed Gull and two Kumlien's Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA