By dint of a lot of fieldwork there was eventually a pretty decent list to show for what on the face of it had looked to be a quiet day with...

Still breezy for much of the day but altogether more pleasant in wall-to-wall sunshine. Migrants certainly weren't plentiful but a good ...

The fierce south-westerly that set in overnight blew on throughout the morning before slowly abating as skies cleared during the afternoon. ...

Just when we'd like to see easterlies set in to waft us the June rares so we were treated to the onset of what felt a lot like an autumn...

Overnight wind and rain knocked down another small arrival around the island, although with sporadic dizzly rain persisting throughout the m...

Just a handful more late migrants to show from today's fieldwork. The best of the bunch was a Pied Flycatcher at Avalanche Road, where ...

The island somehow contrived to get no more than a brief shower of rain out of some otherwise pretty unpleasant cool and windy conditions to...

The day's only reports were from the Bill where 4 Chiffchaffs , 2 Spotted Flycatchers and a Cuckoo made up the migrant tally on the gr...

After a bit of overnight petrel action, when the first trapping session on the season saw 3 Storm Petrels tape-lured and ringed at the Bil...

Another day, another Bee-eater ; today's bird over Top Fields at least went one better than the day before yesterday's individual a...

  A reminder that the next In Focus field event at the Obs takes place between 10am and 4pm tomorrow, Tuesday 26th May 2015.   Qualit...

A couple more nice surprises today in the form of a Bee-eater heard overhead at Weston and an Ortolan Bunting that dropped in briefly at t...

It's that time of year when surprises pop up quite out of the blue so on a lovely warm, sunny but otherwise largely migrant-lite day it ...

Grey skies and a spell of drizzly rain through the morning resulted in a nice little flurry of late migrants around the Bill area. Birding w...

A further improvement in the conditions - albeit with the breeze still being in the north-west - saw a lot more movement today: variety pick...

Slightly more to report but only by virtue of the unhelpful westerly wind having abated somewhat. The Turtle Dove lingered on at Southwell a...

Only an eternal optimist would have expected much from a blasting and at times unpleasantly cold north-westerly so today's dismal showin...

It felt rather like we'd slipped back into late winter today rather than continued the advance into early summer. Migrants certainly we...

Clear skies and a north-westerly breeze didn't bode at all well for migrants and it was quite a surprise that variety was as good as it ...

Yesterday's north-easterlies were replaced by westerlies and interest dwindled right away. At the Bill numbers on the ground were reduce...

At long last a few migrants - not really that many and hardly scratching the surface when it comes to bolstering the seriously deficient May...

A reminder that the next In Focus field event at the Obs takes place between 10am and 4pm this Sunday, 17th May 2015.   Yesterday...

One of these days things are going to pick up again - maybe tomorrow? - but there were precious few signs to give encouragement today. Amon...

Only the faintest hint of an upturn in numbers on the ground today, with new arrivals limited to a thin spread of Spotted Flycatchers every...

Another quite dreadful day for common migrants was salvaged for one fortunate observer when in quick succession he stumbled across 2 separat...

It was certainly quality rather than quantity that made the day today, with the Tawny Pipit again showing from time to time at the Bill and...

Although routine migrants remained almost startlingly few and far between today did come up with plenty of interest: another pulse of Pomari...