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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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| Sunday 20th August 2006 | ||
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| A busy autumn day with the highlight being a Little Shearwater watched flying west past Pendeen Watch, Cornwall. Elsewhere discoveries included a
Blue-winged Teal at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex, a White-winged Black Tern
at Meare Heath, Somerset and a Ferruginous Duck at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset. The first-winter
Woodchat Shrike, present since Friday, on Fair Isle, Shetland shows advanced moult and a large amount of white in the primaries suggesting it may well be of the eastern form
niloticus. The east coast between Shetland and East Yorkshire enjoyed a good showing of drift migrants with six Greenish Warblers (three in Aberdeenshire, singles in Cleveland, East Yorkshire and Northumberland), 17 Barred Warblers, nine Icterine Warblers, ten Wrynecks, seven Red-backed Shrikes and a Common Rosefinch all logged. An unusual autumn phenomena was the arrival of five Dotterel trips totaling 188 birds and including 51 together at Terrington Marsh, Norfolk. The Stilt Sandpiper remained all day on Brownsea Island, Dorset but the Broad-billed Sandpiper at Aberlady Bay, Lothian only put in a brief appearance during the morning. Popular Aquatic Warblers remained at both Simbridge, Gloucestershire and Seasalter, Kent. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 14th August 2006 | ||
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| Whilst a Greenish Warbler on Inner Farne, Northumberland was the only new rarity discovered the day enjoyed a reasonable variety of birds. At Portland Bill, Dorset
both Melodious Warbler and Wryneck were found and North Sea seawatchers enjoyed a scattering of
Long-tailed Skuas, Balearic Shearwaters and Leach's Petrel. The Stilt Sandpiper remained on Brownsea Island, Dorset with a Red-necked Phalarope new in at Elton Hall Flash, Cheshire and Spotted Crakes at both Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire and Beddington, London. A Long-tailed Skua was well inland at Rutland Water, Leicestershire. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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