Better today although without being in any way as rewarding as it could/should be at this juncture: there seems to be an awful lot of migran...

Still only low single figure totals of common migrants to show for today's efforts but odd morsels of quality amongst them included 3 Fi...

Migration really has ground to the halt, with today's continuing and always freshening southwesterlies doing absolutely nothing for us. ...

With a blustery morning following an intermittently wet night and the second half of the day knocked out by a substantial band of rain rolli...

Despite uninspiring conditions - overnight wind and rain that didn't look to have been very helpful on the migration front and left of a...

Barring a likely Alpine Swift that flew in off the sea at the Bill but couldn't quite be clinched by its sole observer the day again bel...

Wot, still no Alpine Swift? - although fieldwork was severely curtailed by some pretty grim damp and dreary conditions there was still a fai...

What proved to be lovely conditions for a Mother's Day drive to Portland for a Cream Tea weren't ever likely to be much cop for thos...

A reduced post tonight via the phone app whilst we try and fix a desktop computer issue.  An underwhelming day that saw the migration moment...

The continuing waft of southerlies did us no harm again today with the first decent push of Chiffchaffs bringing forth a well into three fig...

Plenty of positives again today, with the southerly airflow seeing migrants arrive in decent numbers throughout the south of the island. The...

Portland Bird Obs this Sun 19th March @PortlandBirdObs is the venue for our Optics field day @opticronuk @SwarovskiOptik @hawkeoptics @V...

Today's dreamy expectation: skeins of Alpine Swifts coursing through overhead; today's brutal reality: singles of Wheatear , Chiffch...

A sea day - not that the fierce gale that blew in overnight actually delivered much for those that took the trouble to look. Gull passage co...

An uptick in the air temperature prompted some migrant movement today, with a fair bit of gull passage offshore, a handful of new arrivals o...

Our very needy cause wasn't aided by some pretty grim conditions today as swirling drizzle and reduced visibility put off all but the ke...

We can only say it how it was: the Hooded Crow hybrid was back at the Bill after its sojourn at Barleycrates Lane, a Redwing dropped in at ...

The arrival of milder air might have been expected to be accompanied by frequent rain and reduced visibility and so it proved, with few oppo...

Topsy-turvy weather conditions saw the island miss out on snow that set in a few dozens of miles inland but it still felt raw in a stiff eas...

Barring an interlude of light rain either side of midday today's relatively quiet conditions saw a little bit of movement overhead and o...

A shift to a brisk westerly saw a handful of visible migrants logged - including single figure totals of Lesser Black-backed Gull , Meadow P...

More of the same on a second successive very still and heavily overcast day. New arrivals at the Bill consisted of 30 Wood Pigeons arriving...

Although depressingly grey skies and the lack of any warmth in the air tried their damnedest to spoil proceedings there was a faintly intere...

Hardly a deluge of interest today but a Hooded Crow  that showed up at the Bill was a surprise and a Firecrest at Suckthumb Quarry was an on...

Poor rewards again from a day that turned out to be surprisingly pleasant after the chilly breeze of the morning had abated. The migrant tal...

Although hardly worthy of note for this date there was a tiny bit more about today than of late, with 3 Redwings and a Lapwing new on the gr...

One of these days spring's going to come - unfortunately it wasn't today as February ended as uneventfully as it's progressed th...

Just a handful of winterers making up today's dismal return: 40 Common Scoter settled off the Bill and singles of Black Redstart and C...

Nothing of note today. There still looked to be a few extra Stonechats about but other than it was just regulation winterers on show includi...

With the weather apparently firmly stuck in a samey, chilly vein for the foreseeable future the prospects aren't looking great and if to...

A little bit of movement today saw a few extra thrushes and Stonechats logged at the Bill but numbers and variety remains very low. A Water ...