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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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| Wednesday 28th June 2006 | ||
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| In the main it was a quite summer day with the headline birds being the Scops Owl
in Thrupp, Oxfordshire and the Great White Egret still at Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria. Two
Wilson's Petrels were again located by a pelagic trip off St Mary's, Isle of Scilly in the evening. The best of the rest included a Sabine's Gull briefly at Dawlish Warren, Devon and a Serin at Portland, Bill, Dorset. Autumn passage of common waders is now well under way with Spotted Redshanks, Green Sandpipers and Ruff appearing at many sites. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 26th June 2006 | ||
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| Another quiet day for most regions although an evening pelagic boat trip off Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly revealed five
Wilson's Petrels together with a further individual noted before the boat had passed St Agnes! This inshore bird later being watched from The Garrison, St Mary's. Further pelagics are planned for the coming weekend. Elsewhere a Bee-eater on Unst was presumably one of the birds noted earlier in the month on Yell or Fair Isle. Although the pair of Black-winged Stilts remain at Martin Mere, Lancashire their breeding attempt has been unsuccessful; sadly none of the four eggs have hatched. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Sunday 25th June 2006 | ||
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| The only new rarity discovered today was a Great White Egret at Tacumshin, Co Wexford - found in the afternoon by birders searching for the subadult male
Montagu's Harrier that has been present there for over a week. On Shetland the adult Laughing Gull put in another appearance; this time on Mainland at Toab, whilst the Bee-eater remained on Yell at Camb. Whilst the Great Reed Warbler in Angus remained on territory at Loch of Kinnordy the individual present yesterday at Far Ings, Lincolnshire appeared to have left overnight. |
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| Saturday 24th June 2006 | ||
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| Although in the middle of a traditionally quiet time of year, a couple of new
rarities were still to be found. Best was a Great Reed Warbler at Far
Ings Nature Reserve, on the Humber Estuary, in Lincolnshire. Also, a Black
Kite flew over Anton Lakes, near Andover, Hampshire at 9.30am and a Bee-eater
flew south over Easington in East Yorkshire in the early evening. In Somerset, a
Woodchat Shrike was found at Lucott Cross in the middle of Exmoor, and in
the Western Isles two different first summer Ring-billed Gulls could be
found on Lewis.
The boatload of intrepid birders in the North Atlantic scored their main prize of the summering Black-browed Albatross on Sula Sgeir, some 40 miles north of the Butt of Lewis in the Western Isles, which, together with yesterdays Bridled Tern, made this long round trip well worthwhile. Elsewhere, the Scops Owl remained at Thrupp in Oxfordshire, the Lesser Yellowlegs was still at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, the Bee-eater was still on Yell, Shetlands and the Great Reed Warbler remained in Angus. Common Scoters again featured on inland waters with flocks of up to 24 reported from various sites |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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| Friday 23rd June 2006 | ||
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| The star bird today was an adult Bridled Tern in northwest Scotland that flew past a boat in The Minch
between the Western Isles and Highland early in the evening. The last truly twitchable Bridled Tern was over fifteen years ago
and the next accessible individual will attract quite a crowd. This incredible sighting was made all the more remarkable in that
the boat contained ten keen twitchers heading out to Sula Sgeir hoping to connect
with the summering Black-browed Albatross. Tomorrow will reveal whether their trip produces an incredible seabird double-whammy for some of the participants. A male Red-backed Shrike and a Serin were surprise mid summer finds at Portland, Dorset whilst a belated report of a White-billed Diver was received from Gairloch, Highland. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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