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This page gives you access to all of RBA's daily news summaries (since April 13, 2006), 10 days at a time. The most recent are shown, or you can select a specific date to show (along with the previous 10 days). Prior to April 13, 2006 you can find weekly reviews, located in articles. | |||
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| Friday 25th August 2017 | ||
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| A Blyth's Reed Warbler was a new discovery on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and the
Greenish Warbler was also still present on the island. A Melodious
Warbler was nearby on Papa Westray, whilst Shetland produced Icterine
Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, two Wrynecks, two Barred
Warblers and a Common Rosefinch all on Fair Isle, and other single
Red-backed Shrikes at Skaw, Unst and Grutness, Mainland.
Lingering rarities included the Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Caspian Tern in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher, two Black-winged Stilts and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Bonaparte's Gull in Dorset, Greenish Warbler in Cornwall and Wilson's Petrels in County Kerry (four) and Scilly. Other scarcity highlights included an Ortolan Bunting, a Bluethroat, a Sabine's Gull, a White-winged Black Tern, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, a Purple Heron, a Spotted Crake, a Surf Scoter, two Dotterels, two Red-necked Phalaropes, two Temminck's Stints, two Melodious Warblers, two Hoopoes, three Red-backed Shrikes, three Wrynecks, seven Pectoral Sandpipers and nine Glossy Ibises. Seawatching and pelagic trips produced ten Sabine's Gulls, nine Pomarine Skuas, eight Cory's Shearwaters, seven Great Shearwaters and a Leach's Petrel. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Monday 21st August 2017 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the arrival of two separate Yellow Warblers in the wake of Hurricane Gert. The first to be found was in County Cork at Mizen Head - the fifth record for Ireland and the second at that site following one in August 2008 - whilst the second was discovered at Portland, Dorset - the sixth for Britain and the first for England. Both remained into the evening and represented the earliest ever autumn arrival of a Nearctic landbird in Britain and Ireland. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Laughing Gull still in County Sligo, Caspian Tern in Norfolk, two Wilson's Petrels off the Isles of Scilly, and in Kent the Long-billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull and two Black-winged Stilts all remain. An Aquatic Warbler was reported in Hampshire at Farlington Marshes and on the Isle of Man an astonishingly early Olive-backed Pipit was seen briefly on the Calf of Man. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling and Red-necked Phalarope (together in East Yorkshire), White-winged Black Tern and Hoopoe (together in Devon), Purple Heron (Lancashire), two each of both Spotted Crake and Temminck's Stint, six Pectoral Sandpipers, nine Glossy Ibises, 11 Great Shearwaters, 13 Cattle Egrets and 20 Cory's Shearwaters. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Sunday 20th August 2017 | ||
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| A Fea's or Desertas Petrel and a Wilson's Petrel were seen from
a pelagic off Falmouth, Cornwall this afternoon, and another of each flew past
Chynalls Point in the same county.
Lingering rarities included the Laughing Gull in County Sligo, Forster's Tern in County Louth and Long-billed Dowitcher and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent. Ten Wilson's Petrels were seen from the Scilly pelagic (with another from the Scillonian.III, and eight were seen from the Baltimore pelagic. Scarcity highlights included a Rose-coloured Starling, a Barred Warbler, a Purple Heron, a Temminck's Stint, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, a White-winged Black Tern, a Surf Scoter, two Spotted Crakes, two Hoopoes, two Glossy Ibises and six Pectoral Sandpipers. Seabirds included two Sabine's Gulls, a Long-tailed Skua, 13 Pomarine Skuas, six Cory's Shearwaters and 78 Great Shearwaters. |
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| Thursday 17th August 2017 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was realisation that a reported Little Stint at Nosterfield, North Yorkshire is actually either a
Western or Semipalmated Sandpiper with structural characteristics
suggesting the former. If it does prove to be a Western Sandpiper it will be only the ninth British record and the first ever inland. However, as the bird is in winter plumage a certain identification may not prove possible. Other rarities comprised the flock of seven Bee-eaters now present in Hertfordshire at Bayford, the American White-winged Scoter still in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Western Bonelli's Warbler in East Yorkshire, Caspian Tern in Norfolk, White-rumped Sandpiper in Northumberland, and Long-billed Dowitcher and Bonaparte's Gull together in Kent. Scarcities included Melodious Warbler (Pembrokeshire), Glossy Ibis (Norfolk), Dotterel (South Yorkshire), two each of White-winged Black Tern, Night Heron and Surf Scoter and six Cattle Egrets. Day totals of notable seabirds were 89 Cory's Shearwaters, 44 Great Shearwaters and two each of Wilson's Petrel and Sabine's Gull. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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