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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Wednesday 2nd October 2024  
  New discoveries today included an Eastern Olivaceous Warbler at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire, Two-barred Greenish Warbler at Saltwick Bay, North Yorkshire, Olive-backed Pipits at Thornwick Bay, North Yorkshire, and Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, Semipalmated Sandpiper at Dawlish Warren in Devon, Red-rumped Swallow on Kennack Sands, Cornwall, Arctic Warbler and Dusky Warbler at Spurn in East Yorkshire.

Lingering rarities included the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler and Arctic Warbler in East Yorkshire, Pallid Harrier in Norfolk and Yorkshire, Baird's Sandpiper in County Wexford, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Western Bonelli's Warbler on Scilly, Spotted Sandpiper in Fife, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Gloucestershire, Blyth's Reed Warbler in Lincolnshire, and Canvasback in Essex.
-  Ben Clark, RBA