11th June: Miserable drizzly, cool & increasingly windy conditions produced another bumper total of Manx with likely up towards 10000 ...

  10th June: Although the Serin appeared again - 3 times all briefly overhead at the Obs - and singles of Grey Heron and Reed W were new arr...

9th June: A couple of surprises from the land today with a Serin over the Bill lighthouse and a late Hobby in/off. Steady flow of Manx offsh...

  8th June: A wet morning but bright, sunny afternoon with a few waders the best of the new arrivals incl 9 Sanderling, 6 Ringed Plovers, 4 ...

7th June: Final totals from the sea incl 500 Manx Shearwaters, 70 Balearic Shearwaters, 4 Arctic Skuas & a Storm Petrel. Flurry of late ...

  6th June: Very stormy conditions for the time of year saw the sea super busy with shearwaters - nos difficult with movement in all directi...

  5th June: With the Bee-eaters seemingly having made their escape to Guernsey and the long-staying Turtle Dove at the Obs finally looking a...

  4th June: Bee-eaters heard over Southwell were presumably the reappearing 5 from earlier in the week. Turtle Dove remained at the Obs. Sea...

3rd June: on a really windy day the uptick in Balearic Shearwaters continued with 14 through off the Bill along with c1000 Manx and a single...

2nd June: the 5 Bee-eaters made another two passes over the Obs during the morning and the Turtle Dove remained there; single WW the only ar...

  1st June: 5 Bee-eaters doing a lap of the island from the Bill to the Verne and back again provided the day's highlight; the Turtle Do...

  31st May: birds played second fiddle to moths today, with very full moth-traps to inspect and a succession of fridge twitchers coming to i...

30th May: quiet save for the lingering Turtle Dove at the Obs & a brief Tree Sparrow - yesterday's bird? - also at the Bill; singles...

30th May: the Turtle Dove remained at the Bill and a brief Tree Sparrow there may have been yesterday's bird reappearing but new passeri...

29th May: beyond today's two scarces - the Melodious Warbler & Tree Sparrow (the Turtle Dove was also still about at the Obs) - ther...

28th May: a quieter afternoon but with a notable addition to the earlier totals in the form of Quail flushed from the edge of the Obs garden...

27th May: Turtle Dove still at the Obs; Quail new at the Bill + 3 CC, 3 Spot Fly, 2 Little Egret & a Reed W; inc in Med Gulls to 40 off ...

26th May: despite some epic fieldwork by @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social the expectation of Bee-eaters galore came to nothing, with the day...

25th May: stiff easterly breeze prompted some tern passage with 108 commics, 5 Blacks and a Little thru off the Bill; singles of Arctic and ...