To see yesterday's rain replaced by sunny skies seemed like the highlight the day so the fact that there were a few birds as well was qu...

Yesterday's frustrations were nothing compared with those thrown at us today, with heavy rain that set in overnight really dragging its...

Variety was to the fore on a day that also had plenty of frustrations, with frequent drizzly spells and a brisk north-easterly wind putting ...

A continuation of yesterday on the migrant front, with a decent drop of birds everywhere. In a season that's been almost unprecedentedl...

A  cracking day, with a weather front straddled along the Channel holding up migrants and dropping a succession of new arrivals through the ...

A frustrating day with long enough breaks between spells of drizzle or heavier rain to be tempted to open nets, go seawatching and the like,...

Slow on the migrant front today with no more than 20 Willow Warblers , 10 Wheatears and a Garden Warbler grounded at the Bill and 4 Redsh...

Another little flurry of migrants today although after a very clear night the numbers weren't up to yesterday's mark. The Bill area ...

A lovely fine, sunny and warm day that saw the first significant arrival of migrants of the autumn. Numbers on the ground hardly reached wha...

Another abject showing on the passerine front saw just 2 Willow Warblers logged at the Bill and no other grounded migrants reported anywher...

Just odds and ends again today in cool and at times showery conditions. Bird of the day was the year's first Green Woodpecker that visi...

It's a bad job at this stage in the autumn when you're reduced to doing essential maintenance jobs by lunchtime, but 6 hours of cat...

What do we have to do to get some grounded migrants? Today's overcast dawn looked more than suitable for at least a small flurry, but th...

Still not a sniff of suitable conditions for dropping passerine migrants but, maybe not surprisingly, wader variety was a feature. Ferrybrid...

August got underway just as July had ended, with precious little reason for departing migrants to drop out of a night sky so lit by the full...

With a near full moon looming large in a crystal clear sky it didn't look likely that migrants on the move would drop in any quantity, b...

In   much improved conditions the only news of any consequence was of a small arrival of Willow Warblers that included at least 10 at the O...

Another day of brisk north-westerlies. The odd few new arrivals included 10 Willow Warblers abd a Wheatear at the Bill, whilst a steady mo...

Things remain far from what they ought to be at this juncture, with the almost astounding fact that just 4 new birds have been trapped and r...

In still wilder conditions there was a surprise highlight in the form of a Black Guillemot wrecked in Chesil Cove early in the afternoon; f...

It didn't take long for the weather to revert back to grim mode, and today's wind and at times heavy rain again restricted birding ...

We're away on family holiday in Cornwall this week - with what seems to be a pretty iffy internet connection - so updates are likely to...

Quite a shocker of a day that went a long way toward replenishing the recent rainfall deficit. With serious coverage of the bushes out of t...

  Just a reminder, since we're going to be away and the blog mightn't be updated, that the next In Focus field event at the Obs ...