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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.


Tuesday 28th August 2007

	The best new rarity of the day was a juvenile Wilson's Phalarope discovered at Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford. The only other new rarity reported was a belated report of a Cattle Egret near Seaton in Devon yesterday, but there was no further sign today. In East Anglia the juvenile Marbled Duck relocated from Lowestoft to Minsmere and a Sacred Ibis in Norfolk baring a red colour-ring on it's right leg provoked much debate as to it's origins. If it proves a wandering individual from the French feral population in may well be popular as many would then consider this a 'tickable' individual. A Gull-billed Tern reported past Cley may hopefully be picked up again elsewhere along the well-watched Norfolk Coast. The best rarities were rather inaccessible; the Solitary Sandpiper remained on St Kilda as did the juvenile Pallid on Shetland Mainland. Elsewhere the Black Stork remained on Anglesey as did the Great White Egrets in Lancashire and Glostershire and the White-winged Black Tern in Essex. The good spell for sea-watching continued but most of the action was further north with Northumberland and Durham both scoring high-prized North Sea records of Great Shearwater and Orkney fairing even better with a single Cory's and 21 Greats recorded altogether today.
- Simon Mitchell, RBA


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