Daily news summaries

Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Saturday 16th May 2009  
  Easterly rarities continued to arrive today, with the star being a male Collared Flycatcher at Crail, Fife. Single Thrush Nightingales were in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Suffolk, a second Little Bittern was on the Isles of Scilly, a Red-footed Falcon flew over the Black-winged Pratincole in Kent, single Red-rumped Swallows were in Norfolk and Kent, an Alpine Swift was in Carmarthenshire and a Subalpine Warbler was on Orkney.

The Collared Pratincole was still in Norfolk, as was Rustic Bunting on Shetland, Pallid Swift in Merseyside, Balearic Woodchat Shrike in County Wexford, Savi's Warbler in Essex and the Great Reed Warbler on the Isles of Scilly,
-  Will Soar, RBA