Portland's seventh Blyth's Reed Warbler was an almost expected arrival what with so many having been reported around the country in the last fortnight; either mist-nets are a very effective way of sampling for them or our field skills don't run to much when it comes to this species - every single one of our records is of a bird first found in a mist-net. Today's individual was just about as good as they come, with its appearance and morphology seemingly perfect in every respect (...although we were a little disappointed that at some stage it didn't break into song) © Erin Taylor/Martin Cade:
Puffins are being seen a little more frequently than usual just lately...
...whilst today's blustery conditions brought Manx Shearwaters within photographic range at the Bill © Pete Saunders:
The first Marbled Whites of the year were on the wing at the Bill today; in the first few decades of recording by the Obs the first emergence dates were often not before early July but since the turn of the century there's been a rapid advance such that mid-June emergence became the norm and this is the second year in the last four when the first sighting has been logged in the first week of the month © Martin Cade:
