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Saturday 14th March 2020  
  A fine selection of lingering rarities comprised Ross's Gull (Devon), Laughing Gull and Kentish Plover (Somerset), Pied-billed Grebe (Argyll), Black-throated Thrushes (Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire), West Siberian Stonechat (Cheshire), Forster's Tern (Co Galway), American Herring Gull (Co Sligo), Lesser Scaup (Co Mayo), Bonaparte's Gull (Co Wexford), Long-billed Dowitchers (Devon, Co Wexford and Co Wicklow), Blue-winged Teal (Devon), Penduline Tit (Dorset), White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Lesser Yellowlegs (North Yorkshire), Black Scoter (Northumberland), Richardson's Cackling Goose (Western Isles) and Ferruginous Duck (West Midlands).

The best of the rest included Rose-coloured Starling (Anglesey), Richard's Pipit (East Yorkshire), Yellow-browed Warbler (London), Black-bellied Dipper (Buckinghamshire), Glossy Ibis (Gwent), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Todd's Canada Goose (Lancashire), Green-winged Teal (Co Mayo), two Kumlien's Gulls and Lapland Buntings, three American Wigeons and Ring-billed Gulls, four Surf Scoters, five Shorelarks, ten Great Grey Shrikes and 12 Ring-necked Ducks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA