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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Saturday 9th May 2015  
  New arrivals today included a Squacco Heron at Prawle Point and a Bonaparte's Gull at Topsham, both Devon, a Tawny Pipit on Portland, Dorset, an Alpine Swift at Pugneys Country Park, West Yorkshire, a Red-rumped Swallow at Porthcurno, Cornwall and a Black Kite over Grove Ferry NNR, Kent.

Lingering rarities present again today included the Greater Yellowlegs and Bonaparte's Gull in Hampshire, King Eider and seven White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire (with another of the latter still in Orkney) and the Lesser Scaup in Yorkshire.
-  Will Soar, RBA