Well, when staff members decide it's better to just get it over with by diving headlong off the patio wall than spending even one more day toiling around after non-existent migrants you know it's probably time to take a break from full daily blog updates - we'll still be posting here every day but will be relying more on Bluesky/Twitter embeds and photos/videos until things get busier again later in the summer.
Bill migrants pretty limited today: 7 Spot Flys, 2 CCs and a Reed W grounded; trickle of hirundines, Swifts and waders overhead; lingering Balearic Shearwater, 90 commic terns and 3 Arctic Skuas on the sea. Just 5 birds ringed between the Obs and Culverwell.
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
saw about a dozen species in tout, meadow brown was nfy.
— andylportland.bsky.social (@andylportland.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Amongst the waders at Ferrybridge this evening it was nice to see 32 little super-dark and super-smart Tundra Ringed Plovers © Martin Cade:
