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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Sunday 17th March 2019  
 

Penduline Tit in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Lincolnshire, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset and two Coues's Arctic Redpolls in Norfolk.

There was little change in the supporting cast, with news of two Rough-legged Buzzards, three Glossy Ibises, five Great Grey Shrikes, 19 Shorelarks, three Yellow-browed Warblers, three Surf Scoters, American Wigeon, five Green-winged Teal, four Ring-necked Ducks, two Tundra Bean Geese, 11 Ring-billed Gulls, Kumlien's Gull, seven Iceland Gulls, four Glaucous Gulls, Grey Phalarope, Balearic Shearwater and White-tailed Eagle (Cleveland/North Yorkshire border).

A reasonable arrival of spring migrants involved two Ospreys, 28 Swallows, two House Martins, 70 Wheatears and 24 Little Ringed Plovers.
-  David Campbell, RBA