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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.

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Wednesday 4th August 2010  
  A Pacific Golden Plover was discovered on South Uist (Western Isles) and in Kent a Black Stork flew over Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve. Lingering rarities included Lesser Yellowlegs (Cheshire), Laughing Gull (Co Antrim), House Finch (Devon), Whiskered Tern (Cleveland) and Alpine Swift (Orkney).

Elsewhere at Cattle Egret remained in Leicestershire, two Purple Herons (an adult and a juvenile) and a Great White Egret were still at Dungeness RSPB (Kent) and in Nottinghamshire a Common Crane visited Hoveringham Gravel Pits.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA