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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.


Saturday 29th September 2007

	While it may have lacked the extreme rarities of yesterday, it proved to be another classic late September day with the pick of the new arrivals including Blyth's Reed Warbler at Woodhorn, Northumberland, Isabelline Shrike at Buckton, East Yorkshire and Red-flanked Bluetail at Weybourne, Norfolk. While the bluetail did a disappearing act the warbler and shrike both proved far more obliging and remained until dusk. Elsewhere presumably the same Gull-billed Tern flew north past Spurn, East Yorkshire and Hartlepool, Cleveland and single Siberian Stonechats were found at Hummersea, Cleveland and Newbiggin, Northumberland. Away from the east coast a Franklin's Gull appeared briefly at Alvecote, Warwickshire, a Long-billed Dowitcher joined a Pectoral Sandpiper at Bough Beech reservoir in Kent, an Aquatic Warbler was ringed at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire and a Bonaparte's Gull dropped in at Strangford Lough in County Down. A Citrine Wagtail on Foula was scant consolation for birders dipping yesterday's first-winter male Siberian Thrush, while on nearby Fetlar the Swainson's Thrush remained for its second day. There was no sign of the Semipalmated Plover on Colonsay, Argyll, or the Red-flanked Bluetail at Corton, Suffolk. Other Shetland specials included a brief Great Snipe on Fetlar and a new Lanceolated Warbler on Fair Isle along with a fleeting Red-throated Pipit. The exceptionally confiding Paddyfield Warbler at St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent and the American Buff-bellied Pipit on St Mary's, Scilly, were among the most popular of the remaining rarities. There was a notable arrival of Great Grey Shrikes along the coast between Essex and North Yorkshire together with a scattering of Yellow-browed and Barred Warblers and Red-breasted Flycatchers. Seabirds including Sabine's Gulls, Grey Phalaropes, Bonxies and Gannets continued to delight patch-watchers on Midlands water bodies and particular mention must go to the remarkable gathering of three Grey Phalaropes and a single Red-necked Phalarope viewable from the same hide at Cley NWT Norfolk.
- Andy Symes, RBA


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