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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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| Sunday 3rd February 2008 | ||
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| The highlight of today may have been the two Penduline Tits at
Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk, but, unfortunately they were only found at dusk.
Elsewhere, lingering rarities provided much of the entertainment, with 29 Cattle Egrets, including one in Ceredigion, three Great White Egrets, including a mobile and elusive bird in Somerset, and two Long-billed Dowitchers on the south coast. The Ferruginous Duck continued to show distantly at Shipley Lake, Derbyshire, but the Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire again showed very well. The White-crowned Sparrow was still at Cley, on its new seeded area west of the road, and just one Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler was noted in Cornwall. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 2nd February 2008 | ||
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| New rarities today included a second year American Herring Gull in
Cheshire, present briefly at Richmond Bank, along with the usual relocating
egrets. A Great White Egret continues to be seen intermittently on the
north Norfolk coast, and was seen to leave the Holkham roost but was not
re-found. In total, 38 Cattle Egrets were present today, with another
'new' bird in County Cork.
Elsewhere, lingering rarities included the White-crowned Sparrow in Norfolk, Pacific Diver in Pembrokeshire, the return of the King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Glossy Ibis in Lincolnshire, Ferruginous Duck in Derbyshire, two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Cornwall and two American Herring Gulls in County Galway. |
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| Friday 1st February 2008 | ||
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| A Long-billed Dowitcher was located today, at Rodden Hive, on the
Fleet at Langton Herring, Dorset. A Cattle Egret was belatedly reported
from Anglesey, at Malltraeth Marsh RSPB, with good numbers remaining elsewhere.
The Glossy Ibis in Lincolnshire was seen again briefly this morning, with the long staying bird confirmed as still present in Lancashire. Norfolk's White-crowned Sparrow remained in Cley, and other lingering rarities comprised a Pacific Diver in Pembrokeshire, a Ferruginous Duck in Derbyshire, Red-breasted Goose in Sussex and a Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Cornwall. |
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| Tuesday 29th January 2008 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the reappearance of a Franklin's Gull at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset. Elsewhere in England the
White-crowned Sparrow and two Ross's Geese remained in Norfolk, as did a
Wilson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly, both Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Cornwall,
Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, Lesser Scaup in Oxfordshire, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon,
Ferruginous Duck in Derbyshire and single Great White Egrets in both Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. In Wales the Pacific Diver remained in Pembrokeshire as did the Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan. In Scotland a White-billed Diver was seen again on the Shetland Isles and both Lesser Scaup and Great White Egret were seen on the Western Isles. Cattle Egret reports today comprised thirteen in Cornwall (where yesterday at least twenty were present), ten in Devon and singles in East Sussex, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and West Sussex. |
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| Monday 28th January 2008 | ||
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| Today’s headline birds were both long-staying major rarities; the White-crowned Sparrow still in Cley, Norfolk and the
Pacific Diver still at Llys-y-Fran Reservoir, Pembrokeshire. Other lingering rarities confirmed as present today included two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Cornwall, two Ross's Geese in Norfolk, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire, King Eider in Aberdeenshire and Ferruginous Duck in Derbyshire. Cattle Egret reports comprised seven in Cornwall, five in Devon and singles in both County Wexford and West Sussex. |
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| Saturday 26th January 2008 | ||
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| Most notable records today probable relate to the very large number of
white-winged gulls across the country, including several double figure counts of
Iceland Gulls.
Rarities lingering today included the long staying White-crowned Sparrow at Cley, Norfolk, with possibly up to four Ross's Geese and at least three Lesser Snow Geese in the same county, Pacific Diver in Pembrokeshire, two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in Cornwall, a first-winter American Herring Gull in County Galway and still good numbers of Cattle Egrets and Great White Egrets across the country. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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