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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 14th August 2006 | ||
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| Whilst a Greenish Warbler on Inner Farne, Northumberland was the only new rarity discovered the day enjoyed a reasonable variety of birds. At Portland Bill, Dorset
both Melodious Warbler and Wryneck were found and North Sea seawatchers enjoyed a scattering of
Long-tailed Skuas, Balearic Shearwaters and Leach's Petrel. The Stilt Sandpiper remained on Brownsea Island, Dorset with a Red-necked Phalarope new in at Elton Hall Flash, Cheshire and Spotted Crakes at both Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire and Beddington, London. A Long-tailed Skua was well inland at Rutland Water, Leicestershire. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 9th August 2006 | ||
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| Rare gulls again made the headlines today when an adult Franklin's Gull
was discovered late in the evening at Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire - the first county record. Disappointingly it was
soon lost in the large gull roost but hopefully it will reappear there tomorrow.
On Tiree, Argyll a brief adult Ross's Gull was most unseasonal. Elsewhere an adult White-winged Black Tern flew over Neumann's Flash, Cheshire late in the evening and a Melodious Warbler was trapped at Portland Bill, Dorset in the morning - the fourth individual of this species at this bird observatory in little over a fortnight. The Cattle Egret remained for its second day at Burnham Norton, Norfolk and appears not to be ringed. The escaped Cattle Egrets (emanating from Pensthorpe Waterfowl Park, Norfolk) present nearby last year were both ringed on the tibia, although the rings were difficult to discern at times. However, whilst the benefit of the doubt may be given to the Cattle Egret, photographs of the White Pelican at Bough Beech Reservoir, Kent appear to show that several of the primary feathers have been clipped indicating a captive origin for this bird. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Tuesday 8th August 2006 | ||
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| In Suffolk an adult White-winged Black Tern found at Minsmere RSPB
during the morning was the same individual as that present yesterday evening on Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire - an overnight movement of around 160 miles. A brief Pallid Swift was over St. Mary's (Scilly)
during the evening, (relatively) hot on the heels of a bird on Bryher two weeks
ago. In Norfolk a Cattle Egret was located at Burnham Norton but its'
provenance is anyone's guess as two birds were present at nearby Burnham Overy Staithe
for much of last autumn.
In Northumberland a subadult Night Heron was reported from Cresswell Pond briefly while a Grey Phalarope was a good find from a pelagic out of Lyme Bay (Dorset) during the morning. Otherwise it was still fairly slow, particularly in regards to wader passage, although a few more Wood Sandpipers and Spotted Redshanks in the past couple of days are hopefully the forerunner of more numbers, as well as much wanted diversity. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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