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This page gives you access to all of RBA's daily news summaries (since April 13, 2006), 10 days at a time. The most recent are shown, or you can select a specific date to show (along with the previous 10 days). Prior to April 13, 2006 you can find weekly reviews, located in articles. | |||
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| Monday 3rd July 2006 | ||
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| The only 'new' rarity discovered today was presumably an old friend, a colour-ringed Great White Egret
at Mockbeggar, Hampshire is presumably the bird that has intermittently frequented the numerous waters in that vicinity over the last four years. A belated report of a
Great White Egret seen recently in Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire may well be the same bird. An adult male Common Rosefinch remained on territory at Newmachar, Abderdeenshire having been present at this site for at least eleven days. In Greater Manchester the adult male aythya at Pennington Flash that on Saturday had been identified as a Lesser Scaup was today confirmed to be just a Scaup. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 28th June 2006 | ||
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| In the main it was a quite summer day with the headline birds being the Scops Owl
in Thrupp, Oxfordshire and the Great White Egret still at Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria. Two
Wilson's Petrels were again located by a pelagic trip off St Mary's, Isle of Scilly in the evening. The best of the rest included a Sabine's Gull briefly at Dawlish Warren, Devon and a Serin at Portland, Bill, Dorset. Autumn passage of common waders is now well under way with Spotted Redshanks, Green Sandpipers and Ruff appearing at many sites. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 26th June 2006 | ||
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| Another quiet day for most regions although an evening pelagic boat trip off Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly revealed five
Wilson's Petrels together with a further individual noted before the boat had passed St Agnes! This inshore bird later being watched from The Garrison, St Mary's. Further pelagics are planned for the coming weekend. Elsewhere a Bee-eater on Unst was presumably one of the birds noted earlier in the month on Yell or Fair Isle. Although the pair of Black-winged Stilts remain at Martin Mere, Lancashire their breeding attempt has been unsuccessful; sadly none of the four eggs have hatched. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Sunday 25th June 2006 | ||
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| The only new rarity discovered today was a Great White Egret at Tacumshin, Co Wexford - found in the afternoon by birders searching for the subadult male
Montagu's Harrier that has been present there for over a week. On Shetland the adult Laughing Gull put in another appearance; this time on Mainland at Toab, whilst the Bee-eater remained on Yell at Camb. Whilst the Great Reed Warbler in Angus remained on territory at Loch of Kinnordy the individual present yesterday at Far Ings, Lincolnshire appeared to have left overnight. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 24th June 2006 | ||
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| Although in the middle of a traditionally quiet time of year, a couple of new
rarities were still to be found. Best was a Great Reed Warbler at Far
Ings Nature Reserve, on the Humber Estuary, in Lincolnshire. Also, a Black
Kite flew over Anton Lakes, near Andover, Hampshire at 9.30am and a Bee-eater
flew south over Easington in East Yorkshire in the early evening. In Somerset, a
Woodchat Shrike was found at Lucott Cross in the middle of Exmoor, and in
the Western Isles two different first summer Ring-billed Gulls could be
found on Lewis.
The boatload of intrepid birders in the North Atlantic scored their main prize of the summering Black-browed Albatross on Sula Sgeir, some 40 miles north of the Butt of Lewis in the Western Isles, which, together with yesterdays Bridled Tern, made this long round trip well worthwhile. Elsewhere, the Scops Owl remained at Thrupp in Oxfordshire, the Lesser Yellowlegs was still at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, the Bee-eater was still on Yell, Shetlands and the Great Reed Warbler remained in Angus. Common Scoters again featured on inland waters with flocks of up to 24 reported from various sites |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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