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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 12th May 2020 | ||
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| A Red-rumped Swallow was found at Wyke Regis, Dorset.
Lingering rarities included the Iberian Chiffchaff at Croft, Lincolsnhire and the 13 Bee-eaters north of Rhiw, Gwynedd. Scarcity highlights included six Dotterel, at least two White-winged Black Terns, a Montagu's Harrier, a Honey Buzzard, two Glaucous Gulls and three Iceland Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Monday 11th May 2020 | ||
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| Rarities today comprised the Red-rumped Swallow still in County Dublin at Swords Estuary, and a
Bee-eater briefly in Hampshire at Havant. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (Nottinghamshire), Woodchat Shrike (Isle of Wight), American Golden Plover and Buff-breasted Sandpiper (together in County Mayo), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Hoopoe, Green-winged Teal and Lapland Bunting (Shetland Isles), Montagu's Harrier (Northamptonshire), Little Auk (Aberdeenshire), and a total of nine migrant Dotterel. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 9th May 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included a male Little Bittern at Clypse Reservoir, Isle of Man, a Great Reed Warbler at Cley NWT, Norfolk and a Black-winged Stilt at Sidlesham, Sussex. Eastern Subalpine Warblers were found at Boddam, Shetland and on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, whilst the Western Subalpine Warbler was confirmed and still present on St Mary's, Scilly. Thirteen Bee-eaters were at Mynydd Rhiw, Gwynedd, two were on Sherkin Island, County Cork, and singles were at Kilnsea/Spurn, Yorkshire and Beachy Head, Sussex. Black Kites flew over Cannop Ponds and Barnwood (both Gloucestershire), Hastings Country Park (Sussex), Dungeness (Kent), Kilnsea/Spurn (Yorkshire) and Wivenhoe (Essex).
Both the Red-rumped Swallow and two Bee-eaters lingered in Scilly. Scarcity highlights included an Icterine Warbler, a Woodchat Shrike, a Red-backed Shrike, a Wryneck, a Grey-headed Wagtail, three Serins, six Golden Orioles, a Corncrake, eight Dotterel, four White-winged Black Terns, four Roseate Terns, a Montagu's Harrier, three Honey Buzzards, two Pomarine Skuas, a Green-winged Teal and an Iceland Gull. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Friday 8th May 2020 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the identification of a Semipalmated Sandpiper
in County Wexford at Tacumshin where it has first been found on 7th April. Rarities elsewhere comprised a Rustic Bunting new on the Shetland Isles on Fair Isle, the Citrine Wagtail still on the Orkney Isles, Western Subalpine Warbler new in Pembrokeshire on Skokholm, two Black Storks flew over Ambaston, Derbyshire, Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly, Bee-eater in Cleveland, East Yorkshire and the Isles of Scilly (3), and single Black Kites logged in County Durham, Cornwall, East Sussex, and Norfolk. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Northumberland), Ortolan Bunting (County Louth), American Golden Plover (County Mayo), Wryneck (Kent), Temminck's Stint and Grey-headed Wagtail (Norfolk), Shorelark (Orkney Isles), two each of both Golden Oriole and Iceland Gull, and three of Hoopoe and migrant Dotterel. |
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| Wednesday 6th May 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included a Savi's Warbler at Druridge Bay, Northumberland, a Black Kite near Wedmore, Somerset and two Bee-eaters over Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire.
Scarcity highlights included a Red-backed Shrike, a Serin, a Short-toed Lark, a Golden Oriole, two Hoopoes, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Glossy Ibis, two Purple Herons, a Montagu's Harrier, two Honey Buzzards, a Balearic Shearwater, two Pomarine Skuas, three Iceland Gulls and three Glaucous Gulls. |
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| Tuesday 5th May 2020 | ||
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| Notable sightings today included a Red-backed Shrike in County Durham, single
Hoopoes in both Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, at least two Golden Orioles on the Isles of Scilly with another in County Cork, a Balearic Shearwater
in Dorset, and both Iceland Gull and Glaucous Gull remain together on the Shetland Isles. Late news concerned the Steller's Eider still present on the Orkney Isles on Papa Westray on 24th April. |
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| Sunday 3rd May 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included a Squacco Heron at High Eske NR, Yorkshire, an Iberian Chiffchaff at Croft, Lincolnshire, female Subalpine Warblers in Shetland at Funzie, Fetlar and in Scilly at Porth Hellick, St Mary's, and a Black Kite over Stoneleigh, London.
The Red-throated Pipit lingered in Scilly, as did the Red-footed Falcon in Kent. Scarcity highlights included a Wryneck, a Grey-headed Wagtail, two Hoopoes, a Night Heron, eight Dotterel, two Roseate Terns, two Glaucous Gulls, two Iceland Gulls, a Balearic Shearwater and seven Pomarine Skuas. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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