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Saturday 28th February 2026  
  In Dorset the Forster's Tern again re-appeared in Poole Harbour, seen off Baiter Park this afternoon. A Bonaparte's Gull was found on Barra in the Western Isles and a pair of Lesser Scaups was discovered at Clifton Pits in Worcestershire. A Black Kite was reported at Wye in Kent.

The Ross's Gull continued to delight birders at Newlyn in Corwall and other lingering rarities included the Redhead in County Kerry, Harlequin Duck in County Donegal, Stejneger's Scoter, or possibly hybrid, in Fife, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Black Scoter in County Kerry, Baikal Teal in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaups in Essex, Northamptonshire and County Wexford, Pacific Divers in Cornwall and County Donegal, Spotted Sandpiper in County Waterford, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Clare, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall and Denbighshire, Pallid Harrier in Carmarthenshire, Bonaparte's Gull on Shetland, Dusky Warbler in Cornwall and Hume's Warblers in Suffolk and Warwickshire.
Pete Hayman, RBA
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