Disappointingly quiet today, with no sign of overnight cloud leading to an upturn in migrant numbers. A new Wryneck did show up at the Bill...

A day that ticked over with low level migrant interest without ever looking like anything out of the ordinary was about to happen. The mainl...

A succession of drizzly rain bands that passed through during the morning gave a different complexion to the weather today and saw most atte...

  A reminder that there's an  In Focus field event at the Obs between 10am and 4pm this Saturday, 23rd September. Not really...

A lovely day to be out birding with plenty of routine passage to get amongst. Chiffchaffs are coming to the fore, with a good 80 at the Bil...

With quieter conditions at least temporarily established it perhaps wasn't a surprise that the two long-stayers - the Wryneck and the Ho...

No day with Wryneck and Hoopoe topping the listings ought to be dismissed but there was a feeling that, these to long-stayers aside, today...

A similar day to yesterday saw the lovely birding conditions of the morning gradually give way to an afternoon spoilt by some hefty showers ...

Weather-wise, the nicest day of the week by a margin: after a clear, chilly start in the gentle northerly it was feeling really warm by midd...

With routine passerine migration remaining less than riveting it was left to the sea and the trio of lingering goodies to the provide the da...

A lot of hard work today in an unrelenting blasting westerly eventually came up with a really decent list. The highlight came after dogged p...

Yesterday's wild winds hadn't diminished to nearly the degree that had been expected and it was still well beyond brisk at dawn, wit...

The wild weather that blew in yesterday afternoon persisted throughout the night, with the wind barely abating until well into the afternoon...

The relatively calm of dawn was short-lived and it wasn't long before a full-blown southwesterly gale sprung up. The Obs Quarry Wryneck ...

With a stiff northwesterly blowing there wasn't really much hope of quality newcomers and it was left to two elusive stayers - the Hoopo...

The following entries appeared on the day-sheet today: Bill: Balearic Shearwater 19, Common Scoter 19, C (commic, Common?) Tern 10, Manx S...

The big influx of Yellow Wagtails over the August bank holiday weekend aside, this autumn's been a real slow-burner to date; finally tho...

Clear skies and a brisk northwesterly saw Meadow Pipit passage get going for the first time this autumn but it remained very slow for groun...

A far drizzlier day than expected with the already fresh westerly strengthening markedly towards evening - not the sort of conditions likely...

A quite peculiar day with a nice flurry of scarcer migrants but very little in the way of more routine fare. After a drizzly, misty night th...