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Saturday 9th March 2019  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Penduline Tits in Greater London and Dorset, Forster's Tern in Co.Galway, Red-rumped Swallow in County Cork and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk.

Scarcity highlights included a Richard's Pipit, three Yellow-browed Warblers, five Great Grey Shrikes, 23 Shorelarks, a Temminck's Stint, a Night Heron, two Rough-legged Buzzards, two Tundra Bean Geese, two Taiga Bean Geese, an American Wigeon, two Surf Scoters, three Green-winged Teal, four Ring-necked Ducks, three Glossy Ibises, three Ring-billed Gulls, three Kumlien's Gulls, six Glaucous Gulls and 17 Iceland Gulls.
-  Will Soar, RBA