Contrary to the weather forecast the fog that had rolled in yesterday evening proved to be considerably less all-enveloping than anticipated...

Ordinarily, Portland has a gratifyingly pre-eminent position in the early spring migration stakes but just lately a little bit of the lustre...

A funny old day when expectations were on the high side but reality dealt a different hand. A Hoopoe that dropped into the Strips for a whil...

Dungeness we may not be, at least in spring seawatch terms, but today had a lot going for it with all-day entertainment for anyone keeping a...

Today's shift of the constantly freshening breeze into the east (...it was forecast to be south-easterly but when does that ever happen?...

Although hardly numerous in any one spot, such was today's quite uniform spread of the early season quartet - Wheatear , Blackcap , Chif...

The weather did us no favours again today with a nasty weather system that had slipped in to western France overnight seemingly stopping the...

For the most part today's rewards were very low key although a Sooty Shearwater through off the Bill was a notable exception as it cons...

For the second time this week a seemingly decent little arrival of migrants was all but lost in the wind and rain that had downed them in th...

Really, just don't ask about day's migration experiences! With nine hours or so of mist-netting at the Obs producing just 2 new bird...

Today felt a lot like a lost opportunity: seemingly promising-looking conditions saw a weather front from the north arrive overhead in the l...

A largely underwhelming selection to report from a pleasantly bright, sunny day that had dawned with  one of the sharpest frosts of the year...

A steady passage of Red-throated Divers - 48 through off the Bill - hadn't looked to be on the cards in the continuing chilly northerly...

With the exception of a random Barnacle Goose that dropped into a sheep field at the Bill for a few minutes during the afternoon today'...

A profound change in the conditions as well as the quality of the birding today as a cold front swept south overnight and introduced a blast...

Another very nice drop of summer migrants today in conditions quite unlike those prevailing for yesterday's more 'classic' fall;...

Migration aficionados had noticed today's potential to at last provide them with some action and, thanks to overnight rain and overcast ...

A good all round early season migration day today - about time too! Grounded arrivals have been very conspicuously sparse all month so a lit...

Such has been the dearth of birds on the ground that anyone wandering the byways of the island during the last week or so would be forgiven ...

It was again a real struggle to get much reward anywhere other than on West Cliffs where visible migration maintained decent momentum under ...

Another gloriously sunny, pleasant day albeit slightly tempered by more of a northeasterly breeze than yesterday. The migrant situation hard...

A fair bit more interest today although you had to be on your toes to catch up with any of real quality. With the conditions getting more su...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record today brought forth a light easterly breeze, unbroken sunshine and precious little of great int...