Whilst the continuing mild weather made for pleasant birding, there appeared to be little in the way of new arrivals, with a total of 3 Song...

An overcast day with temperatures back up into double figures saw a small arrival of migrants join the already lingering birds around the ob...

Another cold and clear start to the day, with the winds gradually switching back to the south and building in strength as the afternoon went...

Today marked a return to winter, with both cooler temperatures and decidedly fewer birds. Around the Bill a total of 7 Purple Sandpipers and...

With the wind dropped right away to a light breeze and the temperature clinging to double figures, many of today's birds were actively f...

After a weekend of seawatching, today's clear and dry conditions meant that attentions could shift back to the land. There were signs of...

Whilst another day of wild weather courtesy of Storm Bert, the incoming North African airflow meant it was surprisingly warm for so late int...

With the latter half of the autumn being marked by prolonged periods of calm and dry conditions, there seemed to be quite a deal of anticipa...

Today's crisp and clear conditions felt a lot like the calm before the storm, with a nice variety of birds turned up in the winter sunsh...

Whilst we may have escaped the snowy conditions that seemed to have blanketed large swathes of the country, a rather persistent band of slee...

With downturns in the weather inevitably going to get more frequent from here on in today's clear sky and relative calm had to be made t...

Winter really had set in by the end of today when the temperature was hovering only a little above zero but the precursor to this had been a...

The inexorable slide into winter continued and despite relatively benign conditions through the morning new migrant interest at the Bill con...

A relatively meagre list of migrants to show for today's efforts but there were some snippets of quality in the form of singles of Red K...

The fact that activities were somewhat curtailed by an afternoon spent indoors attending to Obs administrative business couldn't be used...

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The return of some cloud cover was welcome and led to a small uptick in migrant numbers, most of which passed through overhead. At the Bill,...

Someone's hit repeat - weather and birds - and this time round we're not getting nearly as much mileage out of it as we did last wee...

Whilst we're sure that the last knockings of autumn are still a fair way off yet there was no doubt that today's happenings had a di...

Another short spell of pre-dawn damp prompted another small arrival of migrants today. At the Bill, a good 80 Redwings and a handful of Fiel...

A short spell of mizzly damp that passed over the island just as dawn was breaking not only took what little breeze there was out of the eas...

Lots of nice variety today but in quieter, less windy conditions overall numbers of migrants dropped off a little. The Pallas's Warbler ...

Being cheerful souls we're not jumping on the bandwagon of collective national gloomy-weather angst, in fact if anything we're posit...

A day slightly saved by the continuing presence of a Pallas's Warbler at Avalanche Road and Yellow-browed Warblers there and at May Bo...

Lots of quality if slightly lower numbers again today, with an arrival of 3 Pallas's Warblers , 3 Yellow-browed Warblers and a Siberian...

Perhaps the strangest thing about recent days has been how incredibly few birders have been about grossing out on what's been a fantasti...

Wow, what a top drawer day with so much movement going on everywhere you looked. Heavy cloud and a brisk easterly was yet again the order of...

A little bit of a change of emphasis today saw the fresh northeasterly remain a constant feature and perk up interest on the sea where auks ...