11th November

 

Not too many new arrivals in today's unrelenting gloom but at least it was birdable: 2 Siberian CCs & 2 Dartford Ws the best at the Bill; elsewhere, a late Northern Wheatear at New Ground; 153 Common Scoter through on the sea at the Bill. www.portlandbirdobs.com/2026/11/11th-november.html

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— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM

The day's Siberian Chiffchaffs were looking and sounding great in today's gloomy quietness - ghostly pale and incessantly peeping as they went about their business © Martin Cade:

In view of the national wheatear situation there does seem to be a degree of injustice in Portland logging three late 'ordinary' Northern Wheatears in succession without a sniff of a Desert or Isabelline © Nick Hopper:

Dartford Warblers have been a pretty constant presence around the Bill just lately and, ringing-wise, today's single from the CEF mist-nets is a record-breaker - the fifth ringed this autumn, beating the previous highest year total of four in 1991

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— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM

In the garden in the rain, Redwing and Great Spotted Woodpecker

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— Debra Saunders (@debbyseamist.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM

A few from Ferrybridge/Harbour the past few days

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— Debra Saunders (@debbyseamist.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM