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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 6th November 2006 | ||
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| With few new rarities being found a White-rumped Sandpiper in Co Mayo was the best of the bunch. A male
King Eider reappeared at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the Desert Wheatear and two
Little Buntings remained on the Isles of Scilly and the Dusky Warbler
continued at Lowestoft, Suffolk. A late Woodchat Shrike lingered near Marlborough, Devon and the
nineteenth Pallas's Warbler of the autumn was reported in Chiswick, London. Long staying rarities that are beginning to look that they may spend the winter include the Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent and Red-breasted Geese in Dorset and Lincolnshire (two). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 2nd November 2006 | ||
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| The highlight of some fabulous seawatching along the British east coast was a
Brünnich's Guillemot in East Yorkshire, seen briefly off Flamborough
Head with it - or another - reported later off Withernsea. A few Grey
Phalaropes and Pomarine Skuas were noted passing various watchpoints
but it was, in the main, the day of the Little Auk, of which the peak
counts comprised in Northumberland 7,881 Farne Islands and 6,000 Newbiggin, East
Yorkshire 3,190 Flamborough Head and 1,050 Spurn, Co Durham 3,049 Whitburn,
Angus 1,637 Fishtown of Usan, East Yorkshire 1,092 Scarborough and 646 Filey,
Norfolk 752 Sheringham, Lincolnshire 401 Gibraltar Point, Aberdeenshire 329
Girdle Ness, Cleveland 256 South Gare, Suffolk 103 Benacre, Kent 35 Reculver and
Essex 33 Holland Haven. Elsewhere a Dusky Warbler on Hayling Island, Hampshire was a county first and a Black Kite in Lincolnshire that flew over Freiston Shore and appeared to roost near Butterwick will prove popular if it shows again tomorrow morning. The Desert Wheatears in East Sussex (at Cooden Beach) and Isles of Scilly (St Mary's) remained from yesterday but the Masked Shrike had gone from the latter. The Black Duck continued on Fair Isle, Shetland Isles and the White-billed Diver was seen again in Roaringwater Bay, Co Cork. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 1st November 2006 | ||
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| A remarkable discovery today came in the form of Britain's second Masked
Shrike. Just two years after the first, it was found on St.Mary's on the
Scilly Isles and remained on show during the late afternoon. A fine male Desert
Wheatear was also found on St.Mary's and the island also continued to host a
Blyth's Reed Warbler, a Rose-coloured Starling and a Richard's
Pipit, with a Serin on Tresco and at least three Yellow-browed
Warblers on the islands.
Elsewhere another Desert Wheatear was found at Cooden Beach in East Sussex. A White-billed Diver flew north past Girdle Ness in Aberdeenshire and a Black Duck was found on Fair Isle in The Shetlands. An American Golden Plover flew over Nanjizal Valley near Land's End in Cornwall. In northerly winds, seawatching along the east coast produced large numbers of Little Auks with a smattering of Sooty Shearwaters, Pomarine Skuas and Grey Phalaropes among the commoner seabirds. Southern counties witnessed some impressive movements of common birds at various sites topped by a passage of 74,000 Woodpigeons past Christchurch Harbour in the morning. |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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| Tuesday 31st October 2006 | ||
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| Today brought more of the same with highlights amongst the finds an American Golden Plover
on South Uist, Western Isles, a White-rumped Sandpiper at Ballycotton, Co Cork and a brief
Olive-backed Pipit at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire. Of the rarities remaining from previous days the Blyth's Reed Warbler on St Mary's, Isle of Scilly, Radde's Warbler on Bardsey Island, Gwynedd, Glossy Ibis at Fluke Hall, Lancashire, Cattle Egret near Sidmouth, Devon and two American Golden Plovers in Cambridgeshire were the most noteworthy. A total of 33 Spoonbills was notable, including flocks of 18 on the Taw Estuary, Devon and 12 at Brownsea Island, Dorset. In London the distinctive adult Yellow-legged Gull with extensive, dense but neat head streaking showed again in Hyde Park but it still remains for it to be identified to form. It, at least superficially, closely resembles Azorean Yellow-legged Gull although it has been suggested that this head pattern can perhaps also be shown by some Yellow-legged Gulls of the, principally Mediterranean, form michahellis. |
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| Monday 30th October 2006 | ||
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| A Blyth's Reed Warbler identified on St Mary's, Isle of Scilly was the rarest find of the day with an
Arctic Redpoll on Fair Isle, Shetland Isles, American Golden Plover at Maxey, Cambridgeshire and a
White-rumped Sandpiper at Lurgangreen, Co Louth also new discoveries. A second
Radde's Warbler was unearthed on Bardsey Island, Gwynedd. In Ireland the White-billed Diver showed again off Cape Clear, Co Cork with Lesser Yellowlegs nearby at Rosscarbery, Forster's Tern in Co Louth and White-rumped Sandpiper still in Co Kerry. In England the Cattle Egret reappeared near Sidmouth, Devon whilst two Red-breasted Geese remained in Lincolnshire as did the Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent, Great White Egret in West Yorkshire and White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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