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 7th May 2025  
  The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the pale morph Booted Eagle in East Anglia where it flew over the Norfolk/Suffolk border at Carlton Marshes.

Rarities elsewhere comprised a Citrine Wagtail new in the Isles of Scilly on Bryher, Pacific Diver still in County Cork, the territorial Great Reed Warbler still in Cambridgeshire, two Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, and a total of 16 Red-footed Falcons comprising singles in Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Somerset, and County Wexford, two together in Cambridgeshire, three in Norfolk, and five together in Suffolk.

Significant late news for yesterday concerned a Long-billed Dowitcher in Argyll at Loch Gruinart, Islay.
-  Chris Batty, RBA