Sooty Shearwater still off the Bill during the morning + a single Balearic and an Arctic Skua; c300 Manx thru east/lingering during the evening.
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Osprey just gone low south over the Grove and Easton
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Another varied selection of migrant moths at the Obs overnight: 2 ramburialis, 2 Scarce Bordered Straw and a Small Marbled all firsts for the year; increases to 62 Rusty-dot Pearl, 20 Diamond-backs, 9 Small Mottled Willow, 7 Rush Veneer and 5 vitrealis.
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Arctic Skua and Puffin from this morning's Bill seawatch © Pete Saunders:
The Osprey was a bit of a comedy of errors: we'd just got home and lifted the lid on the first of the garden moth-traps when we took the trouble to glance up to see which local Common Buzzard it was that was stirring up the gulls so comprehensively - no only was it not a Common Buzzard but an Osprey, but it was also so close overhead that had we have had a camera to hand we'd have likely snapped the most frame-filling photo ever taken of an Osprey at Portland! Sadly, by the time we'd run back through the house to grab the camera from the car the bird was already a rapidly diminishing speck © Martin Cade:
