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.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Friday 23rd May 2014  
  Highlights today included a Great Reed Warbler trapped at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire, a Broad-billed Sandpiper on Islay, Argyll, a Citrine Wagtail at Haroldswick, Shetland and a Snowy Owl on Benbecula, Western Isles. More regular spring rarities included a Black-winged Stilt in Somerset and a Red-rumped Swallow and four Bee-eaters in Suffolk, with further Bee-eaters in Kent (five), Norfolk and County Kerry.

The Baillon's Crake remained in Kent, as did the King Eider in Aberdeenshire and the flock of five Bee-eaters in Yorkshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA