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.

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Monday 10th December 2012  
  Today's best new discovery was a Dusky Warbler on Isles of Scilly, whilst lingering rarities included Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll in Suffolk, Falcated Duck in Oxfordshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire, Pacific Diver and Subalpine Warbler in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lincolnshire, Desert Wheatear in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Scaup in Somerset and Cornwall and Lesser Yellowlegs and Bonaparte's Gull in Devon. In Essex four flyover Glossy Ibises were recorded and another Glossy Ibis lingered in Hampshire.

The best of the rest included White-tailed Eagle in Norfolk, Ring-necked Ducks in Cornwall and Norfolk and American Wigeon in West Yorkshire.

A Franklin's Gull present at Lessingham (Norfolk) yesterday could not be found today.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA