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Friday 14th February 2020  
  Discovery of the day was a 1st-winter American Herring Gull at Axmouth (Devon).

Elsewhere a Black Kite reportedly flew over Trunch (Norfolk), whilst West Siberian Stonechat (Cheshire), Blue-winged Teal and Long-billed Dowitcher (Devon), Penduline Tit (Dorset), Lesser Scaup (Dumfries & Galloway), Ferruginous Ducks (Essex, Hampshire, South Yorkshire and Warwickshire), Black-throated Thrush (Lincolnshire), Lesser Yellowlegs (North Yorkshire) and Blue-headed Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Norfolk) all lingered.

The best of the rest included Hoopoe (Hampshire), Yellow-browed Warblers (London and Wiltshire), Todd's Canada Goose (Merseyside), Grey Phalarope (East Yorkshire), Green-winged Teal (Suffolk), three Great Grey Shrikes, five Shorelarks and seven Ring-necked Ducks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA