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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Saturday 11th April 2020  
  Rarities today comprised the Lesser Kestrel still on the Isles of Scilly, West Siberian Stonechat still in Cheshire, and in Hampshire a Black Kite flew over Havant.

Scarcities included Serin (Dorset and East Yorkshire), Hoopoe (Cornwall and two in East Sussex), Wryneck (Norfolk), Green-winged Teal (Angus), three Glaucous Gulls, five Iceland Gulls, and a total of 51 Waxwings.

Incoming spring migrants included Wood Sandpiper (Lancashire), Quail (Norfolk), Turtle Dove (Kent), Blue-headed Wagtail (Lincolnshire), Swift (Cambridgeshire), eight Whinchat, and 19 Garganey.

Late news concerned a Black-winged Stilt present yesterday in the Cotswold Water Park, Gloucestershire/Wiltshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA