Daily news summaries

Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Sunday 15th September 2024  
  The highlight today was a Tennessee Warbler on Fair Isle in Shetland, other new rarities consisted of a Semipalmated Sandpiper at Loch Ordais on Western Isles, Greenish Warbler at Porthgwarra in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gull in Larne, County Antrim, Red-footed Falcon at Elmley NNR in Kent, Black Stork at Dursey Island, County Cork, and Long-billed Dowitcher at Bowling Green Marsh in Devon.

Lingering rarities included the Steppe Grey Shrike in Lothian, Black-winged Stilt in Cambridgeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Baird's Sandpiper in County Kerry, Canvasback in Essex, and two Ferruginous Ducks in Leicestershire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA