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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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Saturday 17th June 2017  
  New discoveries included a Red-rumped Swallow on The Lizard (Cornwall), a flyover Bee-eater in Kent and a flyover Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk. In West Sussex the Elegant Tern remained in situ, whilst Red-footed Falcon (Surrey), Little Bittern (Somerset), Spotted Sandpiper (Cumbria), Iberian Chiffchaff (Cheshire) and Black-winged Stilts (Norfolk [4] and Cambridgeshire [6]) all lingered.

The best of the rest included Marsh Warblers (Suffolk and Cleveland), Icterine Warbler (Highland), White-tailed Eagle (Norfolk), Serin (Co Cork) and American Night Heron (Shropshire).
-  Stuart Piner, RBA