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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 4th September 2015  
  Lingering rarities still present today included the Black Storks at Bexhill, East Sussex and Sunk Island, East Yorkshire, the Citrine Wagtail on Fair Isle, Shetland, the Greenish Warbler on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and the Lesser Scaup and Ferruginous Duck both at Chew Valley Lake in Somerset. One Bee-eater fledged at Lower Gelt, Cumbria where the two adults remained in attendance, with at least one more chick still in the nest.

Scarcity highlights included an Ortolan Bunting, an Icterine Warbler, a White-winged Black Tern, two Hoopoes, three Honey Buzzards, six Red-backed Shrikes, seven Barred Warblers and 11 Wrynecks.
-  Will Soar, RBA