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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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| Tuesday 21st April 2020 | ||
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| A Savi's Warbler was found at Brading Marshes RSPB, Isle of Wight, and an Alpine Swift was in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset. Late news from yesterday concerned a Citrine Wagtail at Siddick Ponds, Cumbria.
The Lesser Kestrel lingering in Scilly. Scarcity highlights included a Woodchat Shrike, a Lapland Bunting, a Waxwing, three Hoopoes, a Purple Heron, two Glossy Ibises, a Green-winged Teal, a Black Brant, two Montagu's Harriers, a Ring-billed Gull, three Glaucous Gulls and four Iceland Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Monday 20th April 2020 | ||
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| Rarities today comprised the Lesser Kestrel still on the Isles of Scilly on St Mary's, the
Collared Pratincole still in County Cork at The Gearagh, and a Red-rumped Swallow discovered in Pembrokeshire at Heathfield. Scarcities included Bluethroat (Orkney Isles), Serin (Isles of Scilly), Richard's Pipit (Lincolnshire), Purple Heron (Dorset), Montagu's Harrier (Kent), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Pectoral Sandpiper (Cheshire), Lapland Bunting (Western Isles), Waxwing (Argyll), two each of both Iceland Gull and Glaucous Gull, six migrant Dotterel, and eight Hoopoes. Late news concerned a female Bufflehead present yesterday in Kent near Folkestone. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 18th April 2020 | ||
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| A Collared Pratincole was found at The Gearagh, County Cork, and an Eastern Subalpine Warbler was trapped and ringed at Sandwick, Shetland.
The Lesser Kestrel lingered in Scilly. Scarcity highlights included a Hoopoe, a Wryneck, two Lapland Buntings, 15 Waxwings, a Pectoral Sandpiper, four Dotterel, a Ring-necked Duck, a Green-winged Teal, a Black Brant, three Glaucous Gulls and six Iceland Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Friday 17th April 2020 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of Red-rumped Swallows in Conwy at Great Ormes Head and in East Sussex at Piddinghoe. Elsewhere, the Lesser Kestrel remained on the Isles of Scilly, Serin and Wryneck were seen in Cornwall, Ring-necked Duck in Bedfordshire, Green-winged Teal in Angus, Lapland Bunting in County Donegal, both Yellow-browed Warbler and two Dotterel in East Yorkshire, three Hoopoes, and 15 Waxwings. Notable migrants included a total of 47 Black Terns, four Garganey, two Turtle Doves, Wood Warbler (Somerset), Wood Sandpiper (Lancashire), Quail (Merseyside), and Blue-headed Wagtail (Lincolnshire). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 15th April 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included an Iberian Chiffchaff at Rhiw, Gwynedd, a Bee-eater at Barnstaple, Devon and a Black Kite over Hornchurch, London. Significant news from yesterday concerned a Short-toed Treecreeper at Dungeness, Kent.
Lingering rarities included just the Lesser Kestrel in Scilly. Scarcity highlights included a Hoopoe, two Wrynecks, 16 Waxwings, a Corncrake, a Rough-legged Buzzard, two Pomarine Skuas, a Black Brant, a Ring-necked Duck, a Green-winged Teal, four Glaucous Gulls and eight Iceland Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Tuesday 14th April 2020 | ||
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| The highlights of the day were single Hoopoes in both Hampshire and West Sussex,
Richard's Pipit in Lincolnshire, two Dotterel together in Pembrokeshire, two
Balearic Shearwaters off the Isles of Scilly, four Iceland Gulls, five Glaucous
Gulls, and a total of 32 Waxwings. Incoming spring migrants included Wood Sandpiper (Dorset), Spotted Flycatcher (Aberdeenshire), Swift (Essex), and Garganey (Norfolk and Northamptonshire). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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