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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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| Tuesday 28th November 2006 | ||
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| Two new American waders were discovered today with a Long-billed Dowitcher on
the Alaw Estuary, Anglesey and a Lesser Yellowlegs on South Uist, Western Isles. The juvenile
Black-eared Kite was reported again briefly; this time in Norfolk at Snettisham. Otherwise wildfowl led the way with the reappearance of the first-winter male Falcated Duck on Exe Estuary, Devon notable as was the continued presence of both Barrow's Goldeneyes in Forth and Co Down, Black Scoter in Conwy, Bufflehead on Shetland and Lesser Scaups in Dumfries and Galloway, Western Isles and Co Dublin. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 27th November 2006 | ||
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| Lesser Scaup was the flavour of the day with news breaking of females at Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway and Knock Lake, Co Dublin and a
male on North Uist, Western Isles (where there had been two the previous day). The Laughing Gull in Hertfordshire was seen again at dawn at Amwell and on the Western Isles both the Snowy Owl and American Golden Plover showed again on Lewis. A Pallas's Warbler and Yellow-browed Warbler were together at Durlston, Dorset with a further Yellow-browed Warbler at Beer, Devon. Long-stayers were headlined by the Barrow's Goldeneye in Forth, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall and White-rumped Sandpiper in Norfolk. |
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| Monday 20th November 2006 | ||
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| A Wilson's Phalarope discovered at St John's Point, Co Down was, like the continuing
Woodchat Shrike in Devon and Purple Heron in Buckinghamshire, an exceptionally late record. The adult male Barrow's Goldeneyes continued to show well at both Callander, Forth and Quoile Ponadge, Co Down, the Black-eared Kite remained near Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire as did the Dusky Warbler at Spurn Point, East Yorkshire and the Bonaparte's Gull in Lunan Bay, Angus. Several American waders remained in place with Spotted Sandpipers in both Cornwall and Devon, American Golden Plovers in Cambridgeshire and Co Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs in Co Cork and White-rumped Sandpipers in Co Down, Co Wicklow and Norfolk. |
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| Sunday 19th November 2006 | ||
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| The outstanding find of the day was an adult male Barrow's Goldeneye on the River Teith in Callander, Forth. Until 2005
Barrow's Goldeneye was one of the great 'blockers' with just one accepted record, in Ayrshire in November and December 1979. However, with a male in Aberdeenshire during May and June last year and another - or the same -
in Co Down from November 2005 until April 2006 and again in November 2006, everyone has
now had a chance to see this superb duck. An adult Laughing Gull located in the large evening gull roost at Grafham Water was the first Cambridgeshire record whilst an adult Bonaparte's Gull at Lunan Bay, Angus is presumably a returning individual. The Black-eared Kite showed again at Holbeach Marsh, Lincolnshire and other long-stayers including the Forster's Tern in Co Louth, Glossy Ibis in Lancashire, Red-breasted Geese in Dorset and Lincolnshire (2), Cattle Egret in Devon and both Siberian Stonechat and Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall. Continuing American waders were represented by American Golden Plover in Cambridgeshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Kent and four scattered White-rumped Sandpipers. |
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