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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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| Friday 26th August 2022 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was a dark morph Eleonora's Falcon in Norfolk at Horsey and then
later relocated at Hickling Broad. Breaking news from elsewhere included a Roller in Lincolnshire at Timberland, a Lesser Yellowlegs in County Louth at Dundalk, and in Gloucestershire a
Kentish Plover flew over Severn Beach. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Greater Sand Plover in Cleveland, Turkestan Shrike in East Yorkshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Black Scoter in Aberdeenshire, Aquatic Warbler in Cornwall, and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent. Seabirds today included a Fea's/Desertas Petrel at sea off the Isles of Scilly, a Wilson's Petrel at sea off County Cork, four Long-tailed Skuas, five Sabine's Gulls, 67 Cory's Shearwaters, and a total of 163 Great Shearwaters. On the Shetland Isles scarce migrants comprised Greenish Warbler, Citrine Wagtail, Melodious Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Icterine Warbler, two Common Rosefinches, and a total of four Barred Warblers. Elsewhere, Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), two each of Purple Heron, Red-necked Phalarope, Wryneck, and Surf Scoter, three of both Red-backed Shrike and Temminck's Stint, six of Spotted Crake and Pectoral Sandpiper, and 19 Glossy Ibises were all logged. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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