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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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| Sunday 6th June 2021 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the continued presence of both mega rarities: the Red-necked Stint in Northumberland on the Blyth Estuary, and the
River Warbler in Somerset at Ham Wall. Discoveries included a Black-headed Bunting in Essex on The Naze briefly, two Collared Pratincoles together in Kent at Dungeness, a Lesser Yellowlegs at Grutness, Shetland Isles, a Black Stork briefly at Sellindge, Kent, a Black Kite briefly at Oakham, Leicestershire, and single Bee-eaters in each of County Cork, East Yorkshire, and the Isles of Scilly. Other rarities today comprised the American Herring Gull still in Cornwall, Rustic Bunting, King Eider, and two White-billed Diver all on Shetland, territorial Great Reed Warblers still in both Northumberland and Nottinghamshire, King Eider still in Aberdeenshire, and Red-footed Falcons in Kent, Norfolk (2), and Suffolk. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Friday 4th June 2021 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a River Warbler in song at Ham Wall, Somerset where it showed well into the evening and was accompanied by a
Savi's Warbler. Discoveries elsewhere included a Great Reed Warbler in Northumberland at East Chevington, Red-footed Falcon in Norfolk at Hickling Broad, and on the Shetland Isles a Rustic Bunting on Foula, a Great Reed Warbler at Sumburgh, Mainland, and a Blyth's Reed Warbler on East Burra. Brief encounters included both a Black Stork and Bee-eater in Cornwall, and further Bee-eaters in Derbyshire and Northumberland. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Calandra Lark and two King Eiders on Shetland, Great Reed Warbler in Nottinghamshire, and Western Subalpine Warbler on the Isle of Man. Significant late news concerned a Red-footed Falcon at Staveley, North Yorkshire, and a Blyth's Reed Warbler at Whitburn, County Durham both present yesterday, and that the reported territorial Little Crake recently in Cambridgeshire was actually most likely a Shelduck. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 2nd June 2021 | ||
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| A White-tailed Lapwing was present at Stodmarsh NNR, Kent briefly this morning, before it flew south, whilst a Little Swift was also a brief visitor to Porth Hellick, Scilly this evening.
A Western Bonelli's Warbler was found on Skoholm, Pembrokeshire, with a Blyth's Reed Warbler at Langport, Somerset, a Pallid Harrier in Aberdeenshire, two Red-rumped Swallows at Mizen Head, County Cork and several Bee-eaters in Yorkshire (nine at Whitby, eight at East Newton, five at Spurn, one at Filey and one at Bempton) with further birds in Kent at Dungeness and South Foreland and Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire. Lingering rarities still present included the Calandra Lark in Shetland, Lesser Grey Shrike in Yorkshire, Great Reed Warbler in Nottinghamshire, Black Stork and American Herring Gull in Cornwall and White-billed Diver in Shetland. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Monday 31st May 2021 | ||
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| A Slate-coloured Junco was photographed in a garden in east Lothian, and late news from Sunday involved a Little Crake heard at Wicken Fen NT, Cambridgeshire late evening.
Other new discoveries today included single Lesser Grey Shrikes on Skomer, Pembrokeshire and at Whitby, Yorkshire (the latter joined by a flock of at least 11 Bee-eaters, with further singletons on St Agnes, Scilly and over Samphire Hoe Country Park, Kent), a Thrush Nightingale at Brook, Isle of Wight, two Rustic Buntings on mainland Shetland, a Blyth's Reed Warbler on Coll, Argyll, a Western Subalpine Warbler on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (with a Subalpine Warbler species on Unst, Shetland), a Greenish Warbler at Spurn, Yorkshire, a Red-rumped Swallow on North Ronaldsay, Orkney and a Black Kite over Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Lingering rarities still present included the Calandra Lark, Rustic Bunting and Bee-eater in Shetland, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Black Stork and Black Kite in Cornwall, Sardinian Warbler in Shetland, Great Reed Warbler in Nottinghamshire, Collared Pratincole in Kent, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, two Black-winged Stilts in Suffolk and Black Kite in Kent. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Friday 28th May 2021 | ||
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| A good day for discoveries with on the Shetland Isles Eastern Subalpine Warbler and Tawny Pipit
joining three Rustic Buntings on Fair Isle, with two more Rustic Buntings
new on Foula, the first Blyth's Reed Warbler of the spring found on North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles, in County Wexford a
Subalpine Warbler species on Great Saltee Island and a Bonaparte's
Gull at Churchtown, two Black-winged Stilts together in Suffolk at Trimley Marshes, a
Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly on St Martin's, a mobile Bee-eater
in Norfolk, and Black Kites briefly in Dorset, Highland, and Somerset. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Eastern Subalpine Warbler in East Yorkshire, Collared Pratincole in Kent, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Savi's Warbler in Carmarthenshire, and both Bee-eater and White-billed Diver on the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included American Golden Plover (Devon), Woodchat Shrike (Suffolk), Night Heron and Pectoral Sandpiper (Cornwall), Bluethroat and Wryneck (Shetland), Grey Phalarope (Hampshire), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland), Temminck's Stint (Leicestershire), two each of Purple Heron, Ring-necked Duck, and Glossy Ibis, three Common Rosefinches, seven Red-backed Shrikes, eight Icterine Warblers, and a total of nine Golden Orioles. Significant late news concerned a Black Stork seen yesterday in Surrey at Thursley Common and then Frensham. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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