With the buffeting southwestly remaining a constant - and tiresome - feature it was no great surprise that 2
Grey Phalaropes wrecked in Chesil Cove would be the day's high point. There was precious little competition in that department, with 28
Balearic Shearwaters and an
Arctic Skua through off the Bill, a
Pied Flycatcher and a lingering
Firecrest at the Obs and singles of
Green Sandpiper and
Arctic Tern at Ferrybridge really not cutting the mustard when it came to quality. What relatively few other migrants were logged were largely on repeat and scarcely worth a mention.
Green Sandpipers are far less than annual visitors to the tidal shoreline at Ferrybridge where this singleton was disturbed from as dawn broke © Pete Saunders:
Currently, poor overnight conditions for moth-trapping but still a few migrants turning up incl single Passengers at the Obs on both the last two nights; best of the other scarces an Old World Webworm at the Grove yesterday. Striped Hawks still nearly nightly, White-specks beginning to increase.
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— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
