Daily News Summaries | ||||
![]() | ||||
![]() |
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. | |||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||||
Switch to summary view | ||||
![]() |
||||
<< Newer | Back to the most recent | Older>> | ||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Wednesday 7th April 2021 | ||
![]() |
||
Rarities today comprised both the Northern Mockingbird and Lesser Yellowlegs
still in Devon, the White-winged Scoter again in Lothian, both American Herring Gull
and Western Subalpine Warbler still in Cornwall, Alpine Swift in Pembrokeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher
in North Yorkshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Gloucestershire, Dusky Warbler in Merseyside, two
Red-rumped Swallows together in Kent, two Richardson's Cackling Geese
together on the Western Isles, and three White-billed Divers together on the Orkney Isles. Scarcities included Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Wiltshire), Purple Heron (Essex), Night Heron (Isle of Wight), Bluethroat (Northumberland), Richard's Pipit (Cheshire), Serin (Cornwall), Wryneck (Pembrokeshire), Sabine's Gull (Moray), Taiga Bean Goose (Suffolk), two each of Little Bunting, Hoopoe, Yellow-browed Warbler, and Great Grey Shrike, three of Grey Phalarope, four of Surf Scoter and Green-winged Teal, five Glossy Ibises, 12 Lapland Buntings, and a total of 13 Ring-necked Ducks. Incoming spring migrants included Wood Warbler (West Sussex), Little Tern (Hampshire), Nightingale (Kent), Grasshopper Warbler (London), two each of Blue-headed Wagtail and Cuckoo, four Hobbies, five Pied Flycatchers, and a total of 41 Garganey. Significant late news concerned a Great Spotted Cuckoo sound-recorded at Stroud, Gloucestershire in the early hours of 31st March. |
||
- Chris Batty, RBA | ||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
<< Newer | Back to the most recent | Older>> | ||
| ||||
![]() | ||||
All weather charts on this page are Crown Copyright of the Met Office and are reproduced here with their permission. If you wish to reproduce any of these charts yourself, you must seek prior approval from the Met Office |
||||
![]() |