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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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| Saturday 8th April 2023 | ||
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| Another Short-toed Treecreeper in Kent spent 15 minutes at Bockhill Farm, St Margaret's at Cliffe mid morning, but didn't show to anyone except the finders. An American Bittern was flushed with a Purple Heron at Lough Gill, County Kerry (only the latter was a county first).
Other new discoveries included just a Baltic Gull at West Bexington, Dorset, an Alpine Swift over Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and three White-billed Divers off Portsoy, Aberdeenshire. Lingering rarities included the Ross's Gull in Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, Black-winged Stilts in Cornwall (eight), County Wexford, County Waterford, County Cork (six), County Kerry (six) and County Clare, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Black Duck in County Mayo, Lesser Scaups in Somerset and Western Isles, Eastern Yellow Wagtail in Suffolk, two Alpine Swifts in County Antrim and one in Cornwall and White-billed Diver in Moray. Scarcity highlights included three Woodchat Shrikes, a Great Grey Shrike, five Serins, seven Hoopoes (including three on Portland, Dorset), a Yellow-browed Warbler, a Lapland Bunting, five Shorelarks, five Purple Herons, 12 Night Herons, nine Glossy Ibises, a Montagu's Harrier, a Rough-legged Buzzard, a Green-winged Teal, three Surf Scoters, nine Ring-necked Ducks, two Tundra Bean Geese, a Glaucous Gull, a Kumlien's Gull and seven Iceland Gulls. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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