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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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| Monday 22nd May 2023 | ||
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The highlights of the day were a Short-toed Eagle briefly in Cumbria at Ambleside, a Broad-billed Sandpiper in Northumberland at Budle Bay, a Savi's Warbler in East Yorkshire at Blacktoft Sands, and on the Shetland Isles a Snowy Owl and two Subalpine Warbler species on Fair Isle, with further Subalpine Warbler species on both Out Skerries and Unst. Rarities elsewhere comprised Caspian Tern, Great Reed Warbler, and Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in Gloucestershire, Black Kite briefly in Cambridgeshire, Bee-eaters in Kent (4) and Suffolk, and Black-winged Stilts in Gloucestershire, Norfolk (3), North Yorkshire (2), and Suffolk (2). Scarcities included Red-breasted Flycatcher, Icterine Warbler, and two Bluethroats all on the Isle of May, Fife, whilst elsewhere American Golden Plover (East Yorkshire), White-winged Black Tern (Kent), American Wigeon (Shetland), Spotted Crake (Oxfordshire), Glossy Ibis (Suffolk), two of both Golden Oriole and Night Heron, six Red-backed Shrikes, and a total of 17 Temminck's Stints. Significant late news concerned the Elegant Tern yesterday back in County Galway at Inishroo, and on Saturday a male Black-eared Wheatear species at Hound Tor, Devon. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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