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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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| Thursday 29th October 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included at least four Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls at Norwick, Unst and a Radde's Warbler at Loch of Clickimin, Mainland, Shetland, a second Dusky Warbler with the long staying bird at Porthloo, Scilly and a White-billed Diver off Filey, Yorkshire.
Lingering rarities included the Blackpoll Warbler, Olive-backed Pipit, Eastern Stonechat and two further Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls in Shetland, Hume's Warbler in Orkney, Red-flanked Bluetail in Worcestershire, Dusky Warblers in Sussex and Norfolk, five Penduline Tits in Hampshire, Pacific Golden Plover in Moray, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Norfolk, Scilly, Somerset and Yorkshire, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Black Duck in Highland and Lesser Scaup in Somerset. Scarcity highlights included a Serin, a Bluethroat, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Shorelark, two Red-backed Shrikes, two Great Grey Shrikes, four Little Buntings, four Lapland Buntings, a Black-bellied Dipper, a Surf Scoter, a Green-winged Teal, two American Wigeon, three Ring-necked Ducks, 22 Tundra Bean Geese, four Glossy Ibises, a Little Auk, a Great Shearwater, a Balearic Shearwater, three Pomarine Skuas, an American Golden Plover, four Grey Phalaropes, a Sabine's Gull, three Iceland Gulls and five Glaucous Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 24th October 2020 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak on the Isles of Scilly on Gugh; the twentieth individual Nearctic landbird of the autumn and the eleventh species. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Brown Shrike still in Northumberland, Red-flanked Bluetails in both Norfolk and the Western Isles, Eastern Stonechats in Cleveland and Norfolk, Olive-backed Pipits in Norfolk (2) and Scilly, Dusky Warblers in East Yorkshire, Norfolk and Scilly, Long-billed Dowitchers in Cumbria and North Yorkshire, and Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Norfolk, Somerset, County Waterford, and North Yorkshire. Scarcities Little Bunting (Norfolk), Red-backed Shrike (Kent), Barred Warbler and American Wigeon (Nothumberland), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk), Ring-billed Gull (County Louth), Sabine's Gull (Devon), two each of Hoopoe, Richard's Pipit, Shorelark, Great Grey Shrike, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Surf Scoter, three American Golden Plovers, five Ring-necked Ducks, six Glossy Ibises, and seven Waxwings. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 22nd October 2020 | ||
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| New discoveries today included a Rustic Bunting at Nanjizal, Cornwall, two Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls at Baltasound, Unst and one near Melby, Mainland, with a Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Burravoe, all Shetland, single Dusky Warblers on St Martin's, Scilly and at Mid Yell, Shetland, a Pallid Swift at Posbrook, Hampshire, a Lesser Yellowlegs at Welney, Norfolk and single Richardson's Cackling Geese near Fallin, Forth and at Termoncarragh, County Mayo. Significant late news concerned a Double-crested Cormorant on 29th September on a boat 149 miles west of Valentia Island, County Kerry.
Lingering rarities included the Blackpoll Warbler, Pine Bunting, Red-throated Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Shetland, White's Thrush in Devon, Brown Shrikes in Yorkshire and Northumberland, two Red-flanked Bluetails, Eastern Stonechat and three Dusky Warblers in Norfolk, Red-flanked Bluetail in Western Isles, further Eastern Stonechats in Cleveland and Sussex, Desert Wheatear in Northumberland, two Dusky Warblers in Scilly, Lesser Yellowlegs' in Somerset, Devon and Yorkshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper in County Kerry, Blue-winged Teal in County Mayo and Richardson's Cackling Goose in Argyll. Scarcity highlights included a Common Rosefinch, a Short-toed Lark, a Shorelark, a Parrot Crossbill, two Red-breasted Flycatchers, two Hoopoes, two Rose-coloured Starlings, two Red-backed Shrikes, three Bluethroats, five Pallas's Warblers, five Little Buntings, five Richard's Pipits, six Great Grey Shrikes, ten Waxwings, 19 Lapland Buntings, a Pectoral Sandpiper, an American Golden Plover, an American Wigeon, two Green-winged Teal, five Ring-necked Ducks, a Snow Goose, a Black Brant, four Tundra Bean Geese, a Rough-legged Buzzard, two Honey Buzzards, six Glossy Ibises, an Iceland Gull, two Glaucous Gulls, a Little Auk, two Long-tailed Skuas and 140 Great Shearwaters. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 21st October 2020 | ||
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| Rarities present today comprised the Eastern Rufous Bush Chat still in Norfolk,
Blackpoll Warbler, Pine Bunting, Red-throated Pipit and two
Arctic Redpolls all on the Shetland Isles, Brown Shrikes still in both Northumberland and West Yorkshire,
Desert Wheatear in Northumberland, Olive-backed Pipits in Dorset and Shetland,
Red-flanked Bluetails in Northumberland and Norfolk (2), Eastern Stonechats in Cleveland, Norfolk and West Sussex,
Lesser Yellowlegs in both Devon and North Yorkshire, and a total of 10 Dusky
Warblers. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark, Pallas's Warbler and Red-backed Shrike (all on the Isles of Scilly), Richard's Pipit (Ceredigion), Hoopoe (Northumberland), Dotterel (County Kerry), two each of Bluethroat, Little Bunting, Barred Warbler, Rose-coloured Starling, American Golden Plover and Lesser Snow Goose, three Ring-necked Ducks, and four of both Red-breasted Flycatcher and Surf Scoter. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Tuesday 20th October 2020 | ||
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| The Shetland Isles provided the highlight of the day when a Pine Bunting was discovered on Unst where the
Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll remained, whilst on Mainland the Blackpoll Warbler
continued at Aith. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Eastern Rufous Bush Chat still in Norfolk but increasingly elusive, Brown Shrikes in both Northumberland and West Yorkshire (although Turkestan Shrike was suggested as an alternative identification for the latter), Desert Wheatear in Northumberland, Wilson's Phalarope in Hampshire, Kentsh Plover in Somerset, White-billed Diver in Aberdeenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, County Dublin, Somerset and North Yorkshire, four Eastern Stonechats, eight Red-flanked Bluetails (including one inland in Bedfordshire), and a total of 12 Dusky Warblers. Scarcities included Pallas's Warbler (County Durham), Rose-coloured Starling and Richard's Pipit (Dorset), Red-backed Shrike (Kent), Wryneck (County Kerry), Purple Heron (Staffordshire), Lesser Snow Goose (Highland), Surf Scoter (Lothian), two each of American Golden Plover, Little Bunting, Hoopoe, and Ring-necked Duck, and three Red-breasted Flycatchers. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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