Unless this spring starts bucking its ideas up it's going to go down the pan just like last spring did - or maybe it's just that the...

That we're in a bit of lull in migratory activity shouldn't really be any surprise given the continuing blasting westerly, with the ...

A brisk westerly that freshened through the day and was touching gale force by the evening made for testing conditions for the migrant seeke...

Sadly, the daily migrant tallies have been on the slide and that pattern continued today, with poor numbers on the land and sea; overhead pa...

Another day that slightly flattered to deceive, with a decent enough list of relatively brief oddities and suggestions from the mist-nets at...

A relatively low-key day although that didn't matter a jot because the weather was so gloriously warm and sunny that it was a pleasure j...

It was another blink and you'll miss it kind of day on the birding front, with the majority of new arrivals shooting straight on past ma...

The infrequency of southeasterlies during spring here meant that today's forecast had already generated some pretty lofty expectations t...

It is perhaps rather telling that the bird of the day was in fact belated news from yesterday of a Woodchat Shrike found during the evening...

With the peak of the turbulent weather not arriving until well into the evening, today passed by in a similar fashion to yesterday, with a b...

The first influences of Storm Dave could be felt on the island today, with a fresh southwesterly concentrating most of the day's efforts...

Today's migration happenings played out in a similar fashion to yesterday, albeit at a much small magnitude, with a trickle of common mi...

With the island right on the cusp of a profound change in conditions at sunrise - a clear moonlit night and cloudless dawn was quickly follo...

There were plenty of positive signs to see out the end of March, with thick cloud cover in the morning precipitating the first proper arriva...

Despite improved conditions - for birding if not for migration - there was scarcely any improvement in migrant numbers today. The Wheatear t...

The migrant drought continued, at least on the ground, with no more than low single figure totals of a few routines at the Bill, where the s...

Migration remained at the lowest of ebbs, with a single Redwing one of the very few new arrivals on the ground at the Bill; visible passage ...

With the forecast showing the wind dropping right away combined with some scattered showers throughout the night, expectations were raised f...

A pretty slow day with migration hardly picking up at all after yesterday's northwesterly blow. Conditions were altogether more favourab...

It was always going to be hard work detecting any migrant activity in today's battering northwesterly, but all attempts at fieldwork sug...

An increase in cloud cover that preceded the gradual return of turbulent conditions was enough to drop another small arrival of migrants at ...

Whilst not quite a wholesale change in the conditions, some much welcome hazy cloud cover saw another pulse of migrants rapidly work their w...