With a blasting, cold northery to contend with fieldwork wasn't exactly a pleasure today. The only additions to the sightings of recent ...

In markedly improved conditions there was considerably more coverage today. The Bill came up with a routine tally of 6 Purple Sandpipers , a...

Very showery and unpleasantly cold in the vicious wind today. Apart from the discovery of a second Red-necked Grebe in Portland Harbour the...

In mightily unpleasant conditions - a dreary, damp start giving way to a blasting and very cold northwesterly - a Great Skua lingering off ...

In tandem with the soaring temperature once the sun came out the day's list increased in leaps and bounds, albeit not including much tha...

It's a sad reflection both of the quality of the day's observations and the sorry state of the local Greenfinch population that thi...

Today's only slight change was an increase to 20 in the Black-necked Grebe total from Portland Harbour; 3 Great Northern Divers , a Red...

This week's  Coot aside(!) winter birding has rather stagnated just lately and without a pretty profound shake-up in the weather it...

The Bill received plenty of coverage and it was the sea that returned the numbers, with 27 Red-throated Divers , 9 Common Scoter , 6 Brent G...

With the rain of the last couple of days replaced by pleasant sunshine there was a lot more incentive to venture out, with the chief reward ...

Yesterday's onset of rain proved to be just the beginning of almost 24 hours of drizzle or heavier bursts that finally petered out towar...

A rather innocuous dawn belied what was to follow once persistent drizzly rain and a freshening and increasingly raw south-easterly set in. ...

Another lovely day of light winds and almost unbroken sunshine - perfect winter birding conditions. Surprises were few and far between but m...

A right old mid-winter miscellany on a lovely crisp but sunny day. If roam-about releases count as highlights then yet another Great Bustar...

We're sure there must have been folk looking elsewhere on a fair weekend day but pretty well all the reports we received were from the B...

A welcome upturn in the weather: blue skies, pleasant sunshine and very little wind for the best part of the day. Fieldwork came up with ma...

After another night of weather excesses - did we hear correctly that overnight Portland Bill was the windiest place in south-west England? -...

Coverage-wise, today was a bit of a shocker even though the daylight hours actually turned out to be something of a window of opportunity be...

A surprisingly number of observers about for a blustery, chilly and at times wet mid-week day. Many of the regulars put in appearances, incl...

With the constantly windy and frequently wet conditions beginning to look depressingly reminiscent of last January there was limited enthusi...

Plenty of weekend coverage saw many of the regulars make the list today, including the Hooded Crow at the Grove pig farm, 13 Black-necked G...

A samey vein of weather and rather repetitious birding at the moment. Three Purple Sandpipers and 2 Blackcaps were again at the Bill, sin...

A blustery but very mild day that saw nothing much change. The Hooded Crow and the Black Guillemot at the Grove and off Portland Castle re...

A very wet start to the day - even though the sun was out by mid-morning - kept most people indoors and the only reports were of the Hooded ...

Although the promised rain largely held off until late in the afternoon today was an uninspiring mix of dreary skies and a chilly and consta...

More of the same today with many of the long-established winterers remaining on station. The 2 Blackcaps were still at the Obs, 4 Red-thro...

Normal winter service resumed today after a month when first the Barred Warbler and then the long holiday break brought about a birding foo...

The presence of an array of bird-racers and year-listers making the most of chilly but otherwise rather benign conditions ensured the establ...

The   quest by a good many visitors for year-ticks ensured better coverage than might have been expected after the overnight return of soggy...

The see-saw conditions of late December certainly remain established, with unbroken sunshine replacing yesterday's uniform gloom. The b...

Despite less than pleasant damp, dreary and increasingly windy conditions the new year got off to a decent enough start, with several skuas ...