Bar a short, sharp spell of very heavy rain during the morning, today's mix of a stiff southerly and patchy sunshine was enough to provi...

A perfectly birdable if largely uneventful morning gave way to an increasingly unpleasant afternoon as an onshore gale set in - seemingly se...

Although the occasional mizzly outbreak cropped up from time to time today had far more positives going for it, not least the wind dropping ...

It got worse today! The blustery westerly airflow seems to be doing less and less for us every day with, for example, an all-day mist-nettin...

A day of rather low quality, with the continuing brisk northwesterlies doing no favours for the increasingly needy fieldworkers. Overhead pa...

For the most part another vismig day, with the stiff wind a continuing irritation for both the ringers and the seekers of grounded migrants....

Another difficult day with the strength of the wind an issue throughout. Overhead passage had looked likely to be the day's salvation bu...

It remained way too windy to permit enjoyable fieldwork today but a steady passage developed overhead that could at least be tapped into fro...

Unlike yesterday, there were no great expectations for today's birding prospects in a 40mph northwesterly and the day's list struggl...

There was a slight feeling of injustice about proceedings today: it was the loveliest of days both for migration and for birding, with plent...

 After several days of inclement weather, visible migration was back on track today, with a steady stream of migrants overhead at the Bill i...

Not quite as wet as yesterday but increasingly windy to the extent that today it was really hard work looking for passerines in anywhere but...

Little meaningful coverage today in constantly wet and increasing windy conditions. There were plenty of migrants about in wherever shelter ...

As is so often the case, a change in the weather seemed to be just what was needed to liven up proceedings once again, although it was very ...

Unlike on several recent days, the overcast skies of dawn didn't clear as today went on and this appeared to result in an almost continu...

In the absence of any of the avian surprises of the last few days, today's birding was all fairly low-key, with the assemblage of birds ...

With dreary, anticyclonic conditions firmly established, diminishing returns are inevitably setting in. However, it's the middle of Octo...