| 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. | |||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||||
| Switch to summary view | ||||
|
||||
| << Newer | Back to the most recent | Older>> | ||
|
||||
|
|
|
| Sunday 13th August 2023 | ||
|
||
| A Semipalmated Sandpiper was found at Pool of Virkie, Shetland today, whilst the first Wilson's Petrel for Ceredigion was taken by a Peregrine off New Quay. A further ten of the latter were seen from a pelagic off Courtmacsherry, County Cork, six were off Scilly and singles were seen from both Pendeen and Porthgwarra, Cornwall. A Bee-eater flew over Pegwell Bay, Kent and a Black Kite flew over Honing, Norfolk.
Lingering rarities still prsent included the Stejneger's Scoter and King Eider in Lothian, Hudsonian Godwit in Shetland, Black-winged Pratincole in County Donegal, White-rumped Sandpiper in Orkney, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, seven Black-winged Stilts in Lincolnshire and five in Yorkshire, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Black Stork in Kent and Bonaparte's Gull in Argyll. Scarcity highlights included a Short-toed Lark, a Marsh Warbler, three Red-backed Shrikes, a Honey Buzzard, a Montagu's Harrier, a Ring-necked Duck, eight Glossy Ibises, a Spotted Crake, an American Golden Plover, two Pectoral Sandpipers, 13 Grey Phalaropes, a White-winged Black Tern, seven Sabine's Gulls, 19 Balearic Shearwaters, 149 Great Shearwaters, around 4,067 Cory's Shearwaters, two Pomarine Skuas and five Long-tailed Skuas. |
||
| - Will Soar, 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 |
||||
|
||||