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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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| Monday 6th April 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included a Red-rumped Swallow south past Scarborough, Filey and Spurn, all Yorkshire, an Alpine Swift at Howth Head, County Dublin and a Blue-winged Teal at Exminster Marshes RSPB, Devon.
The Lesser Kestrel lingered in Scilly, as did a White-billed Diver in Orkney. Scarcity highlights included a Wryneck, two Serins, three Lapland Buntings, four Hoopoes, four Shorelarks, 38 Waxwings, a Glossy Ibis, a Ring-necked Duck, a Surf Scoter, a Black Brant, three Iceland Gulls and four Glaucous Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Sunday 5th April 2020 | ||
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| Discoveries today included an Alpine Swift in Dorset at Leigh, Red-rumped Swallow in Hampshire
at Titchfield Haven, and a Red-footed Falcon reported in Cornwall at Sancreed. Rarities elsewhere comprised the
Lesser Kestrel still on the Isles of Scilly and the West Siberian Stonechat still in Cheshire. Scarcities included three Hoopoes (Cornwall, Devon, and Scilly), two each of both Rough-legged Buzzard (Buckinghamshire and Essex) and Shorelark (Norfolk), American Wigeon and Lapland Bunting (Suffolk), Spotted Crake (Merseyside), Ring-necked Duck (Bedfordshire), Dotterel (County Kerry), Surf Scoter (Lothian), and Grey Phalarope (Lincolnshire). Incoming spring migrants included Garden Warbler (Oxfordshire), Grasshopper Warbler (Scilly), Nightingale (Suffolk), two each of Redstart, Cuckoo and Hobby, three Swift, four each of Garganey and Tree Pipit, six Little Terns, 10 Yellow Wagtails, 12 White Wagtails, and 42 Ring Ouzels. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Friday 3rd April 2020 | ||
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| Significant news from yesterday concerned a Short-toed Treecreeper at Dungeness, Kent.
Lingering rarities still present today included the Lesser Kestrel in Scilly, American Herring Gull in Cornwall and Ferruginous Duck in West Midlands. Scarcity highlights included a Ring-necked Duck, four Iceland Gulls and 67 Waxwings. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 2nd April 2020 | ||
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| New rarities discovered today comprised an American Herring Gull in Cornwall at Penzance, and an
Iberian Chiffchaff singing in Dorset at Christchurch. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Lesser Kestrel on the Isles of Scilly and the Black-throated Thrush in Lincolnshire. Scarcities included Ring-necked Duck (Bedfordshire), White-tailed Eagle (Cambridgeshire), Lapland Bunting (Highland), Glaucous Gull (Argyll), and Iceland Gull (Highland and Northumberland). Incoming spring migrants included three Garganey, four Ring Ouzels, and a total of 24 Ospreys recorded on passage. |
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| Tuesday 31st March 2020 | ||
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| Lingering rarities seen today included the Lesser Kestrel in Scilly, Black-throated Thrush in Lincolnshire and Siberian Stonechat in Cheshire.
Scarcity highlights included four Shorelarks, a Purple Heron, a Surf Scoter, a Green-winged Teal, a Ring-necked Duck, a Black Brant, four Iceland Gulls and five Glaucous Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Monday 30th March 2020 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the arrival of a male Bufflehead in West Yorkshire at Swillington Ings, whilst on Anglesey a male Blue-winged Teal
was discovered. On the Isles of Scilly the Lesser Kestrel remained with a Hoopoe also noted there whilst scarcities elsewhere comprised Purple Heron (Norfolk), Surf Scoter and Lapland Bunting (Highland), Green-winged Teal and Glaucous Gull (Western Isles), two Iceland Gulls, and three Shorelarks (all together in East Yorkshire). Reports of incoming spring migrants included nine Ospreys, five Garganey, three each of Ring Ouzel, Sedge Warbler and Swallow, two of White Wagtail and Willow Warbler, Redstart and Cuckoo (Hampshire), and Yellow Wagtail (Dorset). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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