Daily news summaries

Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Thursday 7th August 2025  
  A Yelkouan Shearwater flew past Berry Head, Devon this morning.

Lingering rarities included the Zitting Cisticola and Black Stork in Suffolk, Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, White-rumped Sandpiper in Yorkshire, two Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire and one in Greater Manchester and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Will Soar, RBA
Wednesday 6th August 2025  
  A Northern Harrier at an undisclosed site in County Clare yesterday was the new rarity of the day.

Continuing rarities included a singing Zitting Cisticola at Walberswick in Suffolk, a rare vagrant, a Black Stork at Boyton Marshes RSPB in Suffolk, Ferruginous Duck at Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB and Earith Gravel Pits in Cambridgeshire, an American Black Tern at Tyninghame Bay in Lothian, a Bonaparte's Gull at Oare Marshes in Kent, a probable Bonaparte's Gull at Cley in Norfolk, a White-winged Scoter at Musselburgh Lagoons in Lothian, and a Lesser Scaup at Audenshaw Reservoirs in Greater Manchester.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
Tuesday 5th August 2025  
  Single Fea's Petrel species flew past Bridges of Ross, County Clare and Annagh Head, County Mayo.

Lingering rarities included the Zitting Cisticola and Black Stork in Suffolk, Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, two Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Will Soar, RBA
Monday 4th August 2025  
  A Fea's Petrel flying past Pendeen Watch in Cornwall at 2.30pm was the new rarity of the day.

Continuing rarities included a singing Zitting Cisticola at Walberswick in Suffolk, a rare vagrant, a Laughing Gull at Trabeg in County Kerry, a Black Stork at Boyton Marshes RSPB in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire and Hampshire, a Bonaparte's Gull at Oare Marshes in Kent, Lesser Scaups at Belvide Reservoir in Staffordshire, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire, and an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull at Annagh Marsh in County Mayo.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
Sunday 3rd August 2025  
  A singing Zitting Cisticola near Walberswick in Suffolk was the standout bird of the day.

Also noted were an Elegant Tern flying south past Annagh Head in County Mayo, and Black Kites over Blandford Forum in Dorset and Winterbourne Dauntsey in Wiltshire.

Continuing rarities included a Black Stork in Suffolk, a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire, and Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire, a Gull-billed Tern in Kent, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
Saturday 2nd August 2025  
  New discoveries today included a Pacific Golden Plover on the Alaw Estuary in Anglesey and a Caspian Tern near Helford, Cornwall.

Lingering rarities included the Black Stork in Suffolk, White-winged Scoters in Lothian and Angus, two Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Eastern Subalpine Warbler in Shetland, Caspian Tern in Nottinghamshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Will Soar, RBA
Friday 1st August 2025  
  Today the roaming Caspian Tern spent a while at Kilvington Lakes in Nottinghamshire before moving on again.

Lingering rarities included the White-rumped Sandpiper in Kent, Black Stork in Suffolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, two Lesser Scaups together in Staffordshire, American Black Tern in Lothian and Laughing Gull in County Kerry.

Seawatching along the east coast produced a good smattering of records of Cory's and Great Shearwaters and Pomarine Skuas.
-  Pete Hayman, RBA
Thursday 31st July 2025  
  There were no new rarities reported today.

Continuing birds included White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk, Kent and East Yorkshire; a Black Stork in Suffolk; a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent; a Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire; a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford; a Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire; a Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire; Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire; an American Black Tern in Lothian; and White-winged Scoters in both Lothian and Angus.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
Wednesday 30th July 2025  
  New headline birds included a Least Tern at Laytown in County Meath, a Black Kite over Portland in Dorset, and a Caspian Tern in Poole Harbour, also in Dorset.

Continuing rarities included White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk, Kent and East Yorkshire, a Black Stork in Suffolk, a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, a Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire and Greater Manchester, a Caspian Tern in Leicestershire, a Black-winged Pratincole in the Western Isles, an American Black Tern in Lothian, and White-winged Scoters in Angus and Lothian.
-  Ben Clark, RBA
Tuesday 29th July 2025  
  New headline birds included a Black-winged Pratincole on North Uist in the Western Isles and two White-winged Scoters off Kinnaber Links in Angus.

Also new were a Caspian Tern in Leicestershire at Eyebrook Reservoir, a Laughing Gull in St Ives, Cornwall, and a White-rumped Sandpiper at Oare Marshes, Kent.

Continuing rarities included White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk and East Yorkshire, a Black Stork in Suffolk, a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, a Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire, a Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, a Ferruginous Duck in Warwickshire, Lesser Scaups in Staffordshire, an Eastern Subalpine Warbler on Fair Isle in Shetland, an American Black Tern in Lothian and a White-winged Scoter also in Lothian.
-  Ben Clark, RBA