NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today

Welcome to NewsMap Lite. Click on the symbols on the map to find the basic details on the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland.  To see details of each sighting you need to use the subscriber only "NewsMap".

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  Most recent RBA news as at 04:24 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)
Below is the actual text of the 3 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here
 
  Yesterday at 22:34   Dorset Black Redstart Portland Bill still 3.30pm  
 
  Yesterday at 22:34   N.Yorks 2.Little Gulls Filey Brigg still  
 
  Yesterday at 22:32   W.Isles PIED-BILLED GREBE still North Uist at Balranald RSPB south of road at Loch nam Feithean. fem.Ring-necked Duck on Loch Scaraidh  
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  A Great Spotted Cuckoo at Giltar Point, Pembrokeshire was the first major Spring rarity of the year.

Long staying winter rarities still present included the American Coot and Bonaparte's Gull in Highland, American Herring Gull, Bonaparte's Gull and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll, Pied-billed Grebe in the Western Isles, Gyr in Lincolnshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Kent and single Two-barred Crossbills in Lincolnshire, Surrey and Gloucestershire.

The second Little Ringed Plover of the year was in Carmarthenshire, single Ring Ouzels were in Denbighshire and Sussex and a new Garganey was in Gloucestershire, with Wheatears and Sand Martins now at a large number of sites across the country. Spring scarcities included two Hoopoes in the south-west and the Wryneck still in Pembrokeshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA