A Night Heron has more than enough pedigree to save any lacklustre day and when the circumstances of its occurrence are as peculiar as thos...

After a couple of duff springs for them we were due a bit of a Pom-fest and just that came to pass today, with the gentle northeasterly and ...

Since all but two of the observers out and about around the island today failed to spot an enormous white and black bird flying majestically...

We currently have a decent selection of secondhand optics and associated paraphernalia for sale; these are as follows: A local Obs member is...

Not that there was much going on anyway, but the premature arrival of high summer saw to it that there was even less today. Although the day...

When it takes more than half an hour to register the first entry on the day-sheet and two hours before the first migrant's ringed at the...

Call yourself a Bird Observatory? - just at the moment we're verging on incurring the scrutiny of Trading Standards for purporting to be...

After yesterday's migration debacle today saw a considerable improvement, with the waft of an easterly and clear skies no impediment to ...

Sometimes overnight rain works for us - just a couple of days ago it worked a treat - but on just as many days it kills migration dead which...

After yesterday's bumper day, today saw a return to the more pedestrian rate of migration that we've grown accustomed to of late wit...

Finally - after what's seemed like an interminable wait - all the variables aligned as fair conditions over the near continent coupled w...

April continues to tick along in a largely underwhelming manner, with most species turned up more or less on cue but for the most part in fa...

With yesterday's rain only finally clearing through just as dawn broke and with a stiff and cold easterly still well established hopes w...

Well, we needed some rain. On most fronts today was a write-off, with respectability just about provided by some pedestrian sea passage in b...

It was far too fine a day to expect much in the way of new arrivals and apart from the literally flying visit of a  Hoopoe  at Weston things...

With last night's blasting southwesterlies - the official peak windspeed was evidently up towards 60mph - taking most of the morning to ...

Another day with plenty of potential that sadly fell short of the mark, with any improvement in the grounded migrant situation being right a...

A day of painful inadequacies on all front: a fresh southerly in mid-April might have been construed to offer the possibilities of a fall of...

We're fans of changes in the weather but today's switch of the wind into the west after weeks of almost constant easterlies did no f...

Another day with things just about ticking over, albeit with the general feeling among the fieldworkers that despite the increasing cloud co...

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Bar another flurry of Hoopoe sightings today didn't have tremendously much going for it; the unbroken sunshine was again nice but an unw...

Another day that ticked along under a blazing sun and in a still cool northeasterly. For Hoopoe -aficionados it was a day of frustration and...

Once the chill of dawn had passed, an appreciable drop in the strength of the wind made for a pleasant day's birding, even if what was o...

With not a sniff of a change in the weather there was a real feel of diminished returns about today's proceedings, with a much thinner s...