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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 13th November 2007 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of an adult Red-breasted Goose with the wintering Barnacle Geese at Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway. Elsewhere a
Long-billed Dowitcher was new at Seal Sands, Cleveland and a Great White Egret flew in off the sea at Waxham, Norfolk before being tracked northwest along the coast to Morston. Lingering rarities comprised of the American Buff-bellied Pipit in Cornwall, a Wilson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly, four Penduline Tits in Suffolk, White-billed Diver in West Sussex, Glossy Ibis in Somerset, Cattle Egret in County Wicklow, American Golden Plover in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gull and Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus and single Lesser Scaups in both Berkshire and the Shetland Isles. On the Western Isles the juvenile grey morph Gyr remained east of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis but the possibility that is actually an escaped hybrid - perhaps with a parentage including Saker - may prove difficult to eliminate. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 12th November 2007 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a party of three Penduline Tits
at Dingle Marshes, Suffolk. Otherwise, a brief Long-billed Dowitcher was seen at Bewl Water, East Sussex, a
Lesser Scaup was confirmed and a White-billed Diver discovered on Fetlar, Shetland Isles and the
Black Scoter returned to Llanfairfechan, Conwy for the tenth succesive winter. In West Sussex the White-billed Diver reappeared whilst other lingering rarities comprised the Gyr on the Western Isles, Glossy Ibis in Somerset, Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaup in Berkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Cattle Egrets in County Wicklow and Dorset (2) and single Great White Egrets in County Londonderry, Hampshire and Lancashire. Displaced Little Auks continued to be seen with reports from 22 counties including site maximums of 2,580 in Aberdeenshire, 860 Orkney Islands, 222 North Yorkshire, 201 County Durham, 136 Norfolk, 109 Moray, 99 Northumberland, 72 East Yorkshire, 59 Lothian and 53 in Cleveland. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Saturday 10th November 2007 | ||
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| An adult Franklins Gull roosted on Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire this
evening. A juvenile Ivory Gull was seen briefly on the Howmore Estuary,
South Uist mid afternoon. A very late Arctic Warbler was on Unst, and a
Kentish Plover was briefly on South Uist. A Lesser Yellowlegs was
found late afternoon at Montrose Basin, Angus, and two White-billed Divers
were seen: one flying past Flamborough, and a presumed returning adult off
Kirkabister, mainland Shetland, with a drake King Eider nearby. As yesterday, large numbers of seabirds continued to be seen around the east coast, although not in the record numbers of Friday. Again, the best count of Little Auks came from the Farne Islands, Northumberland, with over 7,000 birds flying past there. Inland, several Pomarine Skuas were found on reservoirs, such as Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire. Lingering rarities included Glossy Ibis in Somerset, Lesser Scaup in Berkshire, American Buff-bellied Pipit in Cornwall, three Cattle Egrets in Dorset, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Pine Bunting on Fair Isle, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset and Great White Egrets in Norfolk and Lancashire. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Friday 9th November 2007 | ||
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| Nearly all the messages today involved seabirds, with the high winds and
strong tidal surge bringing record breaking numbers of Little Auks within
sight of nearly all the seawatching sites along the east coast, with a maximum
count of over 18,700 seen off the Farne Islands, Northumberland. Elsewhere,
5,381 flew past Whitburn Obs, County Durham, 3,400 were off St.Mary's Island,
Northumberland, 2,800 past Flamborough Head, Yorkshire and 1,100 flew past
Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire. Several birds were reported from inland Norfolk,
including birds on roads and in pub car parks as far from the coast as Norwich.
Large numbers of Pomarine Skuas were also seen, with Leach's Petrels,
European Storm Petrels and Grey Phalaropes also being blown on shore.
An adult White-billed Diver was found off Girdle Ness, Aberdeenshire, by birders searching for Wednesdays Brunnich's Guillemot. Lingering rarities included Glossy Ibis in Somerset, White-rumped Sandpiper and Spotted Sandpiper in Glamorgan, Lesser Yellowlegs in Suffolk, Great White Egret in Lancashire and Lesser Scaup in Berkshire. |
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| Tuesday 6th November 2007 | ||
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| Seawatchers delivered the star bird of the day, a White-billed Diver passing Sheringham, Norfolk during the morning. Over 200
Pomarine Skuas were seen from ten counties including maximums of 103 from Norfolk, 43 from East Yorkshire and 23 from Lincolnshire. Over 50
Little Auks included maximums of 17 from East Yorkshire, ten in Cleveland and nine in Norfolk. The Mourning Dove and Richardson's Canada Goose both remained on Western Isles as did the American Buff-bellied Pipit in Cornwall, Penduline Tit and Lesser Yellowlegs together in Suffolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Devon, Black Kite in Lincolnshire, Glossy Ibis in Merseyside, Ross's Goose in Norfolk, Lesser Scaups in both Berkshire and Somerset and Great White Egrets in both Essex and Lancashire. In Glamorgan the Cattle Egret, Spotted Sandpiper and White-rumped Sandpiper were all seen and in County Cork American Buff-bellied Pipit, Long-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs and American Golden Plover were recorded. In what is a good winter for Great Grey Shrikes singles were recorded today in Berkshire, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, Staffordshire and Surrey. |
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