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Friday 20th March 2020  
  Lingering rarities comprised Lesser Kestrel (Isles of Scilly), Short-toed Treecreeper (Kent), Laughing Gull and Kentish Plover (Somerset), Pied-billed Grebe (Argyll), West Siberian Stonechat (Cheshire), Forster's Tern (Co Galway), Lesser Scaup (Dumfries & Galloway), King Eider (Highland) and two Richardson's Cackling Geese (Western Isles), whilst in North Yorkshire a second Lesser Yellowlegs reportedly joined the long-staying bird at Nosterfield NR.

The best of the rest included Richard's Pipit (East Yorkshire),Yellow-browed Warbler (London), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Snow Goose (Western Isles), Glossy Ibis (Gwent), Todd's Canada Goose (Argyll), Green-winged Teal (Devon), two Rough-legged Buzzards and Tundra Bean Geese, three Lapland Buntings, four Ring-necked Duck, five Surf Scoters and Shorelarks and seven Great Grey Shrikes.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA