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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 24th February 2012 | ||
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| Apart from a new Glossy Ibis near Montgomery, Powys, sightings today
were similar to the last few days. Highlights included the Common
Yellowthroat in Gwent (which remained for its 8th twitchable day, raising
the hopes of the second batch of potential weekend visitors), Paddyfield
Warbler in Sussex, Bufflehead in Cornwall and Bonaparte's Gull
in County Antrim.
Other lingering rarities included single Red-breasted Geese in Suffolk, Essex and Dumfries and Galloway, single Lesser Scaups in Glamorgan and Gloucestershire and single Glossy Ibises in Suffolk, Dorset and Glamorgan, with three in Pembrokeshire. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 23rd February 2012 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the arrival of five Glossy Ibises in Norfolk at Berney Marshes. The flock later dispersed, and perhaps it was one of these birds that reached Minsmere, Suffolk later in the afternoon. A newly arrived Lesser Scaup
at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, was apparently the same male that had been present at Newquay, Cornwall for five days until yesterday;
a movement of 125 miles to the northeast. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Common Yellowthroat in Gwent, both Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Paddyfield Warbler in West Sussex, Forster's Tern in County Galway, Blue-winged Teal on the Isles of Scilly, two Long-billed Dowitchers in County Wexford, Lesser Scaups in both Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, Glossy Ibises in both Dorset and Lancashire, Ross's Geese in both Norfolk and Dumfries and Galloway, and Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire. Scarcities included 50 Tundra Bean Geese and 81 Smew, with gull tallies including 38 Iceland, nine Glaucous, four Ring-billed, four Caspian and two Kumlien's. |
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| Sunday 19th February 2012 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a pair of Two-barred Crossbills in Norfolk at Lynford Arboretum: the first in that county since December 2002. Elsewhere, a
Coues's Arctic Redpoll was identified in Cambridgeshire at Woodwalton Fen, as was an
American Golden Plover in Cornwall at Crowdy Reservoir, and Lesser Scaups in both County Cavan at Belturbet and Cornwall at Newquay. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Common Yellowthroat in Gwent, Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Paddyfield Warbler in West Sussex, Pallid Harrier in County Galway, Red-breasted Geese in both Devon, Dumfries and Galloway and Suffolk, Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Glamorgan, two Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, Northern Long-tailed Tit in North Yorkshire, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll, Ross's Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire, Glossy Ibises in Ceredigion, Dorset, Lancashire and Somerset. Scarce gulls included 332 Iceland, 41 Glaucous, 24 Kumlien's, five Ring-billed and two Caspian, whilst 49 Tundra Bean Geese were counted and 114 Smew were logged. |
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| Friday 17th February 2012 | ||
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| The Common Yellowthroat remained in-situ in Gwent, becoming the first
easily twitchable bird since 1997.
New rarities seen today included a first-winter Bonaparte's Gull in Cardiff, Glamorgan (at the same site also hosting an adult), an American Golden Plover near Davidstow, Cornwall and a Glossy Ibis over Brundall, Norfolk. Long staying rarities once again comprised the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Northern Waterthrush on the Isles of Scilly, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Paddyfield Warbler in Sussex, Lesser White-fronted Goose and three Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk, single Glossy Ibises in Kent, Somerset and Ceredigion, single Red-breasted Geese in Suffolk and Devon, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll, Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire and single Lesser Scaups in Glamorgan, County Kerry and Cornwall. |
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| Thursday 16th February 2012 | ||
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| News of the tenth Common Yellowthroat for Britain was released today,
with a first-winter male present in Rhiwderyn, Gwent for the last few days.
Being the first potentially twitchable bird for the mainland, and the first live
bird since one on Foula, Shetland in 2004, it is likely that, if it sticks, it
will be very popular at the weekend.
Long staying rarities still present today included the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Paddyfield Warbler in Sussex, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Northern Long-tailed Tit in Yorkshire, single Glossy Ibises in Kent, Dorset, Devon and Lancashire, single Red-breasted Geese in Suffolk and Essex, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll and single Lesser Scaups in Gloucestershire and Cornwall. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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