Only ever a wild weather visitor to Portland Harbour, this was one of ten Kittiwakes through there this morning © Pete Saunders:
19th November
Winter really had set in by the end of today when the temperature was hovering only a little above zero but the precursor to this had been a pretty wild morning of blasting northwesterlies. The sea was busy with routine fare for the time of year amongst which 3 Red-throated Divers and a Brent Goose passed by off the Bill; lingering Kittiwakes numbered in the low hundreds off the Bill, with several also passing through Portland Harbour, whilst Lesser Black-backed Gulls were also more numerous than of late including 32 off the Bill. Five Purple Sandpipers were at the Bill where a few of the recent regular passerines still about included a lone Blackcap; elsewhere, 2 Grey Plovers passed through at Portland Harbour.
