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| The highlight of the day was a Squacco Heron in East Yorkshire at Kilnsea where it showed all day. Rarities elsewhere comprised a
Pacific Golden Plover new in Cornwall at Gwithian, a brief Alpine Swift in Shropshire at Broseley, the territiorial
Great Reed Warbler still in Cambridgeshire, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk and
Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and London. Scarcities included Rose-coloured Starling (Aberdeenshire), Golden Oriole (Gloucestershire) and Red-backed Shrike (Surrey). |
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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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| Thursday 28th June 2018 | ||
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| Rarity highlights comprised Snowy Owl (Western Isles), Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Shetland), Bonaparte's Gull (London) and Bee-eater (London), whilst the best of the rest included Red-backed Shrike (Surrey), Rose-coloured Starlings (Aberdeenshire, Co Cork, Dumfries & Galloway, Shetland and Western Isles), Golden Oriole (Shetland) and Cattle Egret (Dorset). | ||
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| Wednesday 27th June 2018 | ||
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| Rarities today comprised Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and London, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk and Bee-eaters in East Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Scarcities included Golden Oriole and Hoopoe (both Gloucestershire), Red-backed Shrike and White Stork (2) (both Surrey), Rose-coloured Starling (Western Isles) and a migrant Red-necked Phalarope (Highland). |
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| Tuesday 26th June 2018 | ||
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| Rarities today comprised the Black-headed Bunting still on the Shetland Isles,
Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgeshire, Savi's Warbler in Suffolk,
Bonaparte's Gull in London, Bonaparte's Gull and brief Black Kite in Kent, and
Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk. Scarcities included Golden Oriole (Gloucestershire), Ring-necked Duck (Argyll), Cattle Egret (Merseyside) and four Rose-coloured Starlings (County Cork, County Galway, County Kerry and the Shetland Isles). |
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| Monday 25th June 2018 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was two Caspain Terns and a Great Shearwater watched at sea off Galley Head, County Cork. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the territorial Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgieshire, Eastern Subalpine Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Savi's Warbler in Suffolk, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk, and Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and London. Scarcities included Golden Oriole (Gloucestershire), Long-tailed Skua (Shetland Isles), Cattle Egret (Merseyside), two migrant Red-necked Phalaropes (together on the Orkney Isles), and a total of four migrant Rose-coloured Starlings. |
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| Sunday 24th June 2018 | ||
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| Rarities today comprised the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still on the Wirral,
Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgeshire, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk,
Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and London, and Black Kites reported briefly in both Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. Scarcities included Red-breasted Flycatcher (Isle of Man), Purple Heron (County Cork), Cattle Egret (Merseyside), Long-tailed Skua (Highland), Spotted Crake (West Yorkshire), and three Rose-coloured Starlings (Aberdeenshire, County Kerry and the Orkney Isles). |
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| Saturday 23rd June 2018 | ||
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| New discoveries comprised a 1st-summer Bonaparte's Gull at
Cross Ness (London) and Snowy Owl on Stronsay (Orkney), whilst
Great Reed Warbler (Cambridgeshire), Bonaparte's Gull
(Kent) and Savi's Warbler (Suffolk) all lingered. The best of the rest included four Rose-coloured Starlings (Aberdeenshire [2], Co Kerry and Western Isles), Honey Buzzard (North Yorkshire) and Cattle Egret (Merseyside). |
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| Friday 22nd June 2018 | ||
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| Lingering rarities still present today included the Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgeshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent and Ferruginous Duck in Durham.
Scarcity highlights included a Hoopoe, a White-winged Black Tern, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Glaucous Gull, an Iceland Gull, a Cattle Egret, a Balearic Shearwater, three Honey Buzzards and four Rose-coloured Starlings. |
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| Thursday 21st June 2018 | ||
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| In Dorset the American Royal Tern was seen off Weymouth at 5.30am, but, despite much searching, it wasn't located again.
Other lingering rarities included the Black-headed Bunting at Norwick, Shetland, Semipalmated Sandpiper at Washington, County Durham, Great Reed Warbler at Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, Iberian Chiffchaff at Otley, Yorkshire and Bonaparte's Gull at Oare, Kent. Scarcity highlights included a Spotted Crake, a Glaucous Gull, two Honey Buzzards, six Rose-coloured Starlings and eight Cattle Egrets. |
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| Wednesday 20th June 2018 | ||
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| Highlight of the day was the lingering American Royal Tern
at Church Norton (West Sussex) - but only just. Early risers bagged the tern at
first light, before it departed to the south at 4.37am. In the evening the tern
was relocated in Weymouth (Dorset), when it flew over Lodmoor RSPB at 8pm,
before eventually settling in Portland Harbour until 10.15pm, when it again flew
off. New discoveries elsewhere comprised Semipalmated Sandpiper at Washington WWT (Co Durham) (originally reported as a Little Stint before it was reidentified from photographs) and Black-headed Bunting on Unst (Shetland). The Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Shetland), Bonaparte's Gull (Kent) and Great Reed Warbler (Cambridgeshire) all lingered. The best of the rest included White-winged Black Tern (Co Durham), Red-necked Phalarope (East Yorkshire), three Rose-coloured Starlings, Glossy Ibis (Northumberland) and Lapland Bunting (Western Isles). |
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