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.

Choose a starting date
Wednesday 31st October 2018  
  New discoveries included Blyth's Pipit (Isles of Scilly), White-billed Diver (Western Isles) and Dusky Warbler (Essex), whilst lingering rarities comprised Grey-cheeked Thrush, Olive-backed Pipit and Dusky Warbler (Isles of Scilly), Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Pied Wheatear (Shetland), King Eider, Eastern Stonechat and two Coues's Arctic Redpolls (Norfolk), Black Scoter (Northumberland), American White-winged Scoter (Lothian), Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), Lesser Yellowlegs (Dorset and Highland), Baird's Sandpiper (Gwent), American Buff-bellied Pipit (Cornwall), Spotted Sandpiper (Co Durham) and Richardson's Cackling Goose (Argyll).

The best of the rest included Pallas's Warbler (East Yorkshire), two Rose-coloured Starlings and Pectoral Sandpipers, four Red-breasted Flycatchers and Richard's Pipits, six Barred Warblers and eight Rough-legged Buzzards.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA