The Waterthrush anniversary date is always hotly anticipated in the Portland calendar and although today didn't come up with anything q...

Maybe not before time there was an exciting rush of both quality and quantity today. The crack of dawn highlight was an Olive-backed Pipit f...

A right old miscellany of sightings today under crystal clear skies and, once the early chill had passed, warm sunshine. Two Common Cranes ...

With the fresh easterly wind now well established there were plenty of birds about but quality remained stubbornly hard to come by, with the...

A day that didn't live up to the billing with a brisk easterly and heavy cloud cover really not coming up with the anticipated goods. Th...

Another thoroughly enjoyable day to be bumbling around the island, with a good spread of routine migrants to be enjoyed in very benign condi...

A far more enjoyable day with plenty of common migrants about in calm, warm and sunny conditions. Quality wasn't a feature, with nothing...

Today's blasting north-westerly took a long time to ease down and again made birding on the land pretty hard work. It took a while befor...

Frequent heavy showers continued to get in the way of concerted fieldwork but there was at least fair coverage of many areas. For once the s...

A thoroughly dispiriting day with meaningful fieldwork thwarted by constant pulses of rain or drizzle. Despite most probably arriving far to...

Although a lovely calm dawn looked to have plenty of promise with fair numbers of migrants soon apparent, things fizzled out as an ever inc...

In very welcome quiet conditions there were still plenty of common migrants about, with the totals of the likes of 40 Chiffchaffs and 25 e...

It was about time a week of unrelenting easterlies bore fruit and today saw plenty of arrivals on the ground, a constant if unspectacular pa...

A new month but the same old weather and not too much change in the birding (...or the mothing). Clear skies and a brisk easterly remained ...

A day of visible passage overload, with a veritable torrent of  migrants battling through overhead into the continuing stiff easterly. Numbe...

With there still being precious few reasons for migrants to drop out of the crystal clear night sky it remained largely quiet on the ground,...

With no change in the weather bar the wind racking up to an even more difficult blasting easterly today was not especially fruitful. A fly-b...

The pretty low-key birding continued with a brisk easterly making it difficult to get amongst what few migrants there seemed to be on the gr...

Another lovely warm, sunny day but with a freshening easterly wind becoming a feature. Grounded arrivals were a little more conspicuous than...

A scorching summer-like day with anticyclonic conditions seemingly now setting in for the foreseeable future. Maybe not surprisingly, the q...

A surprisingly dismal showing today, with pre-dawn showers dropping hardly anything in the way of new arrivals; one-off duff days like this ...

  A reminder that the next In Focus field event at the Obs takes place between 10am and 4pm this Saturday, 26th September 2015. On a ...

A blustery north-westerly made for an uneventful day, with grounded migrants at a premium. The few snippets of interest amongst otherwise l...

For the second time in the last few days pretty likely looking fall conditions didn't deliver, with the showers that passed by late in t...