Portland Bill : Red-throated Diver 2w, Brent Goose 2e, Common Scoter 3etc, Merlin 2, Purple Sandpiper 1, Mediterranean Gull 100etc, Black Re...

Storm Arwen's blasting northerly did nothing except make field excursions a pretty futile exercise, with the day's only reports bein...

Increasingly windy today with spells of hefty showers through the morning - conditions that scuppered attempts at meaningful searches for pa...

Very slow birding today with just a handful of new migrants logged. Six Redwings , 3 Bramblings , a Golden Plover and the lightest trickle ...

Despite the dreariest of conditions today ticked over with a decent enough selection for late November. At the Bill, 10 Bramblings , 6 Redwi...

Less windy today but the crystal clear sky did no favours when it came to dropping migrants, with a grounded Snipe one of the few new arriva...

The quirks of migration were brought into sharp focus today as Portland fared utterly differently to other watchpoints on either side of the...

Welcome to winter = cold and migrantless. Well, it wasn't quite that bad but the writing's certainly on the wall and after the overn...

Still dribs and drabs of passage to tap into today, even if what was logged by day was but a tiny proportion of what was on the move overnig...

A reminder that there's an InFocus field day at the Obs between 10am and 4pm this Sunday, 21st November The Red-breasted Flycatcher rem...

Another day that looked as though it'd fizzled out uneventfully took an unexpected turn just as dusk fell when a Red-breasted Flycatcher...

Whilst not quite turned off, the migration tap was at best only dripping today. Thrushes, Starlings and finches were conspicuously fewer tha...

Today didn't really pan out as might have been hoped given that not too long ago the forecast had been for a promising northeasterly; in...

Another day packed with movement - this time taking place over quite a broad front which made for a tricky collation of everyone's numbe...

A mightily enjoyable day with movement afoot throughout and a constant vibe that something good was about to appear - the fact that it didn&...

Back to mid-November par today with a fair bit on the move overhead in predominantly overcast and increasingly quiet conditions. The mix of ...

A wet start and much more blustery conditions saw to it that there was very little coverage today. A  Snow Bunting headed south at the Grov...

A much more birdy morning was a treat after things had slowed up over the last couple of days. Finches moving under the heavily overcast sky...

The length of the day-list continues to shorten with the current spell of quiet, mild weather not really doing any favours when it comes to ...

Just a dribble of late passage today with little to excite. A minor 'crest-fest reported from the Grove - 3 Firecrests and a Goldcrest w...

Although it seems from reports that Portland wasn't as favoured for numbers as some other Dorset coastal spots it was a decent enough da...

After being maybe quite upbeat about the prospects for autumn having plenty more in store, today's happenings were uneventful enough to ...

With a milder, breezy southwesterly replacing the cool northerlies of the latter half of the week migrant numbers fell away today. The first...

The first touch of frost of the season was testament to how clear it had remained overnight and how low the chances were of there having bee...

There's nothing like a dip into single figure temperatures to inject some urgency into proceedings - even on a day when there was hardly...

Whilst not endowed with the numbers of the migration fiestas of the last couple of days, today provided a nicely varied selection to give pl...

Long overdue absolutely perfect conditions - millpond calm, a clear sky and really quite mild if you were flogging around birding - provided...

November opened - as it often does these days - with a pigeon-fest, as Wood Pigeons that had been delayed by several days of turbulent weat...

Wildly windy conditions that peaked around dawn did nothing for the quality of the birding, with what coverage there was revealing precious ...

Although hardly conventional vismig conditions - it remained buffetingly windy after a weather front cleared through after dawn and the sky ...