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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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Tuesday 6th May 2025  
  The highlight of the day was a Solitary Sandpiper on the Western Isles at Butt of Lewis, Lewis where it been first been photographed yesterday.

Rarities elsewhere comprised a White-winged Scoter still in Fife, Spotted Sandpiper and Great Reed Warbler both still in Cambridgeshire, territorial Savi's Warbler still in Cornwall, two Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire, a Red-rumped Swallow in Northumberland briefly at Weetslade, a Ferruginous Duck new in Somerset at Ham Wall, and a total of 14 Red-footed Falcons comprising singles in Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Hampshire, Norfolk, and Somerset, two in both Cambridgeshire and County Wexford, and five together in Suffolk.
-  Chris Batty, RBA