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.
Get news summaries starting        GO
  Switch to summary view
  << Newer Back to the most recent Older>>  
Tuesday 24th August 2021  
  Discoveries today included a Black-winged Pratincole briefly in Hampshire at East Dean with a further pratincole species briefly at Annesley Pit Top, Nottinghamshire, a Caspian Tern in Suffolk off Southwold, and Greenish Warblers in Norfolk at Horsey and on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Least Tern still in County Dublin, Forster's Tern still in County Louth, Black Stork in Lincolnshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, both Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson's Petrel on Scilly, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and the Shetland Isles, Black Kite in Pembrokeshire, Baltic Gull in Oxfordshire, and Greenish Warblers in both East Yorkshire (2) and Shetland.

Scarcities included American Golden Plover (Orkney Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Durham), Montagu's Harrier (Norfolk), Cory's Shearwater and Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), three each of Melodious Warbler, Barred Warbler, Common Rosefinch, Red-backed Shrike, and Wryneck, four Glossy Ibises, and a total of six Long-tailed Skuas.
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