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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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| Thursday 24th September 2009 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the continued presence of the Sandhill Crane in the Orkney Isles on South Ronaldsay. The bird showed throughout the day at Windwick before again returning to Liddel Loch at dusk. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Fan-tailed Warbler still in Kent, an Arctic Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Blue-winged Teal in Cleveland, Baird's Sandpiper in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian, White-rumped Sandpiper in Essex, single Long-billed Dowitchers in each of Merseyside, Isles of Scilly and Somerset, American Golden Plovers in County Cork, Orkney Isles (3) and County Waterford, three Cattle Egrets together in Gloucestershire, Glossy Ibises in Kent (5), Lancashire (6), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk (2) and West Sussex and Great White Egrets in Cumbria, Hampshire, Lancashire, London, Somerset (2) and Suffolk Scarcities included nine Lapland Buntings, eight Wrynecks, seven Pectoral Sandpipers, four Spotted Crakes, three each of Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Red-backed Shrike, two each of Ortolan Bunting, Rose-coloured Starling, Barred Warbler, Richard's Pipit and Yellow-browed Warbler and singles of Tawny Pipit (Suffolk), Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), Woodchat Shrike (Cornwall), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Isle of Scilly), Icterine Warbler (Gwynedd) and Red-necked Phalarope (Norfolk). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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