At least it didn't rain today although in most other respects the day was a dud with the wind still firmly in the west and still far too...

The wildest of weather, including virtually day-long rain, put paid to most meaningful birding today. Intrepid searches amongst some shelter...

The aftermath of Storm Austen was a day of blasting northwesterlies - no good to man nor bird. The Snow Bunting and 2 Black Redstarts rema...

In the context of this week today passed off very satisfactorily, with far more about than was expected. Despite the continuing stiff wester...

 A howling westerly filled nobody with enthusiasm at dawn but after some very late starts the discovery of a Snow Bunting on East Cliffs at...

The fact that the keenest of today's fieldworkers sacked off the afternoon in favour of baking a Christmas cake spoke volumes for how th...

Despite a lot of hard work in often trying circumstances today really didn't go to plan, with overnight rain delivering neither quantiti...

There's some really fun birding afoot at the moment, with today offering a hatful more overhead passage and some surprisingly good water...

Quite a ripper of a day with the migration tap well and truly opening as birds streamed through into a brisk and - for the first time this a...

Quite an oddity of a day, with the complexion being set early when the first two warblers out of the mist-nets at the Bill were both  Yellow...

After early signs that didn't look at all promising in a brisk and dreary southwesterly today actually ended up passing off quite succes...

Plenty of movement afoot today although the majority of it concerned overhead passage and grounded arrivals were decidedly fewer than might ...

A murky, damp and very windy night - conditions that dragged on for a while after dawn - didn't look at all likely to have done us any f...

For a day that dawned downright miserably - windy, mizzly and with almost no visibility - and promised nothing more than a nice lie-in, bein...

The return of quiet conditions was welcome and produced plenty of passage although perhaps not quite the quantity of grounded arrivals that ...

What with a nagging, stiff northwesterly a constant feature routine birding wasn't easy again today but there was some movement to tap i...

A stiff westerly that set in overnight freshened towards gale force as the day went on and scuppered most serious fieldwork today. The Red-b...

While quantity was again a feature, with Blackcap and Chiffchaff both topping 150 on the ground at the Bill alone and lots of overhead passa...