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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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| Wednesday 11th April 2012 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the arrival of a Black-winged Stilt in Dorset at Radipole Lake, it having migrated fifty miles south overnight from Chew Valley Lake, Somerset. Elsewhere, new rarities included a
White-billed Diver in Highland at Poolewe, a Ferruginous Duck in Wiltshire at Langford Lakes, and a
Blue-winged Teal reported in Somerset, at Ham Wall. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the Thayer's Gull in Lincolnshire, Greater Yellowlegs and King Eider in Aberdeenshire, Red-breasted Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, Spotted Sandpiper and two Long-billed Dowitchers in Somerset, Blue-winged Teal in Clyde, Bonaparte's Gull in County Antrim, Falcated Duck in County Mayo, Richardson's Canada Goose in Argyll, and Glossy Ibises in Dorset, Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire (3), Suffolk and the Western Isles. Significant late news concerned a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll present on Islay on 10th April 2012. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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