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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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| Friday 14th March 2008 | ||
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| The drake Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire was, once again, relocated
today, this time at Alvecote Pools NR, where it showed well all day. The King
Eider in Devon also reappeared in the Northam Burrows area, but the Ayrshire
bird wasn't seen.
Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers were seen in Cleveland and Cornwall, Glossy Ibises in Lancashire and Lincolnshire, two Ross's Geese are still in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan and still plenty of Cattle Egrets in the south west. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 13th March 2008 | ||
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| A Great White Egret in Leicestershire at Watermead Country Park and a brief
Black Kite in Lincolnshire near Digby represented new discoveries. Lingering rarities comprised the Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers in both Cleveland and Cornwall, King Eiders in both Ayrshire and Devon, Lesser Scaups in both Dumfries and Galloway and Perth and Kinross and single Ross's Geese in both Lancashire and Norfolk. Cattle Egret reports concerned nine in Cornwall with singles in each of Ceredigion, Hampshire and Gloucestershire. |
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| Tuesday 11th March 2008 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a King Eider at Troon, Ayrshire. Presumably this is same drake King Eider that has returned to the Ayrshire coast in spring or summer in most years since 2003, and the same as that seen off the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll in recent weeks. Lingering rarities included the White-crowned Sparrow and Ross's Goose both in Norfolk, Wilson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler in Cornwall, Ross's Goose in Lancashire, Lesser Scaup in Dumfries and Galloway, both Long-billed Dowitcher and Falcated Duck in Devon, Glossy Ibises in both Lincolnshire and Merseyside and Great White Egrets in both Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire. Cattle Egret reports comprised eighteen in Cornwall, two in West Sussex and singles in each of Devon, Dorset, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Lincolnshire and Somerset. |
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| Saturday 8th March 2008 | ||
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| Rarities today included the Barrow's Goldeneye at Quoile Pondage,
County Down, with the adult Forster's Tern nearby at Killyleagh harbour,
Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler still in Norton churchyard, Cleveland,
Glossy Ibises in Lincolnshire and Lancashire and the long staying
White-crowned Sparrow at Cley, Norfolk, although this bird is becoming very
erratic in its appearance in the seeded paddock.
Sand Martins are being seen across the southern half of the country now, and another spring migrant included a Hoopoe in north Wales, and Llanrwst, Conwy. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 5th March 2008 | ||
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| The Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire has moved location, being seen at
Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve today. Other notable news today concerned a belated
report of a Snowy Owl, photographed on 16th February in Moray.
The long staying White-crowned Sparrow was reported again, with other rarities including the King Eider again in Devon, two American Herring Gulls still at Nimmo's Pier, County Galway with the Forster's Tern still nearby, Glossy Ibises in Lincolnshire and Lancashire, Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex, Ross's Goose in Norfolk and still good numbers of Cattle Egrets. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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