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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. | |||
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| Monday 22nd May 2006 | ||
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| A quiet day with the highlights being the continued presence of the Black-winged Stilt inland at Upton Warren, Worcestershire and the Woodchat Shrikes at Whitburn, Co Durham and Bryher, Isles of Scilly. Strong westerly winds defined the bird news with exceptional numbers of Storm Petrels continuing to be seen along the English south coast; county maximums including 140 Penzance Cornwall, 110 Portland Dorset, 46 Seaton Devon, 18 Dungeness Kent, nine St Catherine's Point Isle of Wight and eight Milford-on-Sea Hampshire. In northern Scotland similar weather conditions treated observers to a passage of Long-tailed Skuas with a peak of 163 past Mangersta, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles and 59 past Aird an Runair, Benbecula, Western Isles and 38 in Scapa Flow, Orkney. Inland, two flew over the Findhorn Valley, Highland. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Friday 19th May 2006 | ||
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| The best finds of the day were a popular Broad-billed Sandpiper at Over Fen in Cambridgeshire and a Gull-billed Tern which was first seen at Kingsbury Water Park in Warwickshire in the afternoon, before moving to Lound gravel pits in Nottinghamshire in the evening. A Bee-eater flew south over Winterton Dunes in Norfolk and a Spotted Sandpiper was reported at Menlough in County Galway. There were belated reports of a Red-footed Falcon in Cambridgeshire yesterday, and a Black Kite over Dartmoor in Devon on Sunday. Setting a trend, many unseasonably displaced seabirds were seen, chief among them being Storm Petrels off the south coast, with up to 500 off Portland Bill, and there were many Long-tailed and Pomarine Skuas seen in the North West. Also, a Sabine’s Gull was seen in Cumbria and a few Balearic Shearwaters were seen off Devon and Cornwall. |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 17th May 2006 | ||
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| The Black Stork was again located today, seen first in Co Durham flying over Frosterley before being relocated in Northumberland heading east over Plenmeller Common. A male Blue-winged Teal at Longtown, Cumbria was presumably the bird seen earlier in the spring in Northumberland. Like that bird this one bears a metal ring and is of unknown provenance. |
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| Monday 15th May 2006 | ||
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| Star find today was another Broad-billed Sandpiper, this time
with Dunlin on the Lune Estuary at Cockersand, Lancashire. Otherwise
little else of note was discovered, except for a Night Heron briefly on
St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in the evening. Many of the weekend attractions remained with - in Devon - the Gull-billed Tern at Braunton and the Iberian Chiffchaff at Postbridge, in Suffolk, the Lesser Scaup at Bramford and in Angus, the Great Reed Warbler at Forfar Loch. However, those who crossed to the Isle of May were to be disappointed as the Calandra Lark had moved on. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Sunday 14th May 2006 | ||
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| A cracking male Turkestan Shrike (form phoenicuroides) was found at
Whitburn Bird Observatory in Co. Durham in the morning but sadly was not seen
again after it flew north at about 9am. At the other end of the country a
Gull-billed Tern performed well on the River Caen at Braunton in Devon. A
Red-footed Falcon was found at Walland Marsh in Kent, with a Red-rumped
Swallow at Old Head on Kinsale Co Cork, a Great White Egret at
Rosslare Back Strand, Co Wexford and an Alpine Swift reported over
Southend in Essex in the afternoon. The Calandra Lark continued to show on and off on the Isle of May in Fife and the Lesser Scaup at Brampton in Suffolk also proved popular. Broad-billed Sandpipers were still on the Humber Estuary at Spurn and at Tacumshin in County Wexford. New Purple Herons were at Fingringhoe in Essex and in the Slimbridge/Frampton area of Gloucestershire but typically, they were mostly seen in flight. New Woodchat Shrikes were found at Portland, Dorset, on Bryher, Scilly and at Boyton Marshes in Suffolk and a Bee-eater flew past Grune Point in Cumbria. Other typical mid-May fare included Temminck's Stints in Lincolnshire, Cleveland, Norfolk and Essex, a trip of 12 Dotterel briefly in Norfolk with another 16 still in north Lincolnshire, a smattering of Spoonbills and several Garganey scattered throughout the country. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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