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19th April
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IN FOCUS SOUTH WEST Optics day this Sunday 21st April @PortlandBirdObs @DorsetWildlife for more info call Keith 01225 891352 @opticronuk ...
18th April
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With it way too clear overnight - and far less windy than during the last couple of days - migration no doubt picked up far overhead but the...
17th April
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The smallest of upticks in passage was appreciated after a couple of lean days but the 50 Swallows , 25 Willow Warblers , 15 Chiffchaffs , 1...
16th April
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Not a day of plenty on the land, sea or overhead, in fact for this date it was a bit of a shocker with only the continuing Western Subalpine...
15th April
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In keeping with the pattern so far this spring no sooner had it looked like migration was gaining momentum than shoddy weather rolls in to b...
14th April
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There was certainly a bit of quality on offer amongst today's mix, with a Hoopoe in off the sea at the Bill kicking things off in exciti...
13th April
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Consecutive days with plenty of birds - blimey, things really are looking up! The mould was set right as dawn broke when a Cirl Bunting app...
12th April
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These things are relative so today was hardly, for example, like last year's mega day when a tsunami of migrants swept through the islan...
11th April
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In a day long peasouper, for a few hours we were able to kid ourselves that there were migrants out but we just couldn't see them; howev...
10th April
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Another day that offered what looked to be some hope of a fall out of migrants on the land and a bit of a seawatching, both of which almost ...
9th April
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A 60mph westerly gale really isn't what's needed in mid-April and for the most part Storm Pierrick was an ill wind bird-wise. A Ho...
8th April
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Popular opinion ventured that there was a more than evens chance of a decent drop of birds today - but what do we know about it? In the even...
7th April
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A less than compelling day: batteringly strong winds overnight saw passerine migration remain on hold and did far less for the sea than migh...
6th April
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A bit of a curate's egg of a day - something that perhaps might have been expected given the peculiar conditions that saw the likes of a...
5th April
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Yesterday's hint of things getting going again did indeed prove to be the precursor to migration gaining substantially more momentum, wi...
4th April
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These things are relative because the recent bar has fallen to ever such a low level but there was just the tiniest hint of there being more...
3rd April
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Weather-wise, our tale of woe continued, with the strength of the wind being today's blight. An unseen Serin in song in a birder's g...
2nd April
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Another day with no more than single figure totals of grounded migrants at the Bill, amongst which 2 White Wagtails and a lone Redwing prov...
1st April
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A pre-dawn deluge might have been hoped to be the shot in the arm that our needy cause required but in the event fell well short of expectat...
31st March
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March has been very much a month of fits and starts, with the overall feeling of spring action getting going really promptly being spoilt by...
30th March
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Much improved conditions were welcomed for permitting comfortable fieldwork but were maybe a little too improved to deliver on the migrant f...
29th March
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Yesterday's weather excesses may have passed but the overnight and daytime conditions remained far too turbulent for passerines to get m...
28th March
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What an extremely wild day: we haven't seen official figures for the afternoon wind strength but it seemed like it might have been gusti...
27th March
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One day it's going to settle down and dry up but today most definitely wasn't that day...and by the sound of things nor is tomorrow!...
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