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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 18th September 2006 | ||
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| Another busy day with the star birds on the Shetland Isles: Pechora Pipit and
Booted Warbler were both discovered on Fetlar whilst on Fair Isle the lingering Pechora Pipit was joined by both
Olive-backed Pipit and Red-throated Pipit and on Fetlar a Siberian Stonechat
was found. Meanwhile, the Scilly Isles held attention with an Arctic Warbler on St Agnes and another brief view of the suspected Eleonora's Falcon on St Mary's; the fourth such sighting in a week. The Glossy Ibis at Swadlincote, Derbyshire was confirmed but then promptly flew off over Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire and a juvenile Red-footed Falcon was reported at Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. Lingering Nearctic waders included both Least Sandpiper and Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall whilst a Spotted Sandpiper at Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Somerset and a Baird's Sandpiper at Cross Lough, Co Mayo were new discoveries. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 14th September 2006 | ||
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| Newly discovered rarities today comprised a Lesser Scaup at Pine Lake, Lancashire,
Greenish Warbler on Cape Clear, Co Cork and a Baird's Sandpiper at Tacumshin, Co Wexford. Other notable finds included
Tawny Pipit on Blakeney Point, Norfolk, five Buff-breasted Sandpipers on South Uist, Western Isles,
Melodious Warbler Carnsore Point, Co Wexford, Kentish Plover Pagham Harbour, West Sussex and
Sabine's Gull inland at Audenshaw Reservoir, Greater Manchester. Popular long stayers included the Snowy Owl on The Mullet, Co Mayo, Semiplamated Sandpipers at Keyhaven, Hampshire and Smeriwck Harbour, Co Mayo (2), Subalpine Warbler on Bryher and the juvenile Long-tailed Skua at Queen Mother Reservoir, Berkshire for its sixth day. The arrival of Black Terns continued with 573 reported from 54 sites during the day including peak counts of 70 Shell Ness, Kent, 61 Farmoor Reservoir, Oxon, 39 Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire and 31 Upper Bittell Reservoir, Worcestershire. |
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| Tuesday 12th September 2006 | ||
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| Talking point of the day was an adult dark morph Eleonora's Falcon on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, seen well in flight by a single observer over Old Grimbsy at 3pm.
Elsewhere on Scilly an unidentified Bonelli's warbler species was found on Tresco with, around the archipelago,
Subalpine Warbler, Woodchat Shrike, Buff-breasted Sandpiper,
Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike, three Wrynecks, Pectoral Sandpiper and
Lapland Bunting. Yet more American waders were discovered in Ireland with a new Baird's Sandpiper at Annagh, Co Mayo and lingering elsewhere were three Semipalmated Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, White-rumped Sandpiper, two Pectoral Sandpipers and ten Buff-breasted Sandpipers (including eight together at Tacumshin, Co Wexford). On Shetland the highlights were the Great Snipe lingering on Unst and the Citrine Wagtail still on Fair Isle. |
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