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Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

13.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 12th May

A wholesale albeit brief change overnight saw some heavy showers roll in off the Channel and give the island its first proper drenching in m...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

12.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 11th May

In the continuing absence of numbers - the novelty of a drop of rain during the morning came far too late to do us any good - a Firecrest in...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

11.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 10th May

More of the same today with slight encouragement being provided during the evening as noticeably warmer air arrived in tandem with a veil of...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

10.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 9th May

Visible passage was a little stronger today, with a sample one hour count of 149 Swallows , 72 Swifts and 28 House Martins heading north al...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

09.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 8th May

Just at the moment it seems a lot more likely that Kosmos 482 will plunge into the Obs garden than it does that a worthwhile migrant - or a...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

08.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 7th May

Another lovely day to be out birding but, once again, far too nice to have expected any sort of arrival of grounded migrants. Swallows , and...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

07.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 6th May

Very little changing save for the fact that by the afternoon the nagging, cold northeasterly had dropped right away. Although the recent nig...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

06.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 5th May

Colder, just as breezy and very hard-won rewards today. A Turtle Dove at Portland Castle was the pick of the limited selection of grounded ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

05.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 4th May

A slight improvement today, with a brisk and suddenly very chilly northeasterly dropping a good deal more than we'd grown accustomed to in r...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

04.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 3rd May

We'll take anything on the migration front and when the birds come up short like they did again today we're always happy to salvage the day ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

03.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 2nd May

Informed wisdom suggested that by mid-morning today there wouldn't ever have been a 2nd May with so few sightings on the day sheet - and it ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

02.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 1st May

A Night Heron has more than enough pedigree to save any lacklustre day and when the circumstances of its occurrence are as peculiar as thos...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

01.05.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 30th April

After a couple of duff springs for them we were due a bit of a Pom-fest and just that came to pass today, with the gentle northeasterly and ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

30.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 29th April

Since all but two of the observers out and about around the island today failed to spot an enormous white and black bird flying majestically...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

29.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 28th April

We currently have a decent selection of secondhand optics and associated paraphernalia for sale; these are as follows: A local Obs member is...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

28.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 27th April

Not that there was much going on anyway, but the premature arrival of high summer saw to it that there was even less today. Although the day...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

27.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 26th April

When it takes more than half an hour to register the first entry on the day-sheet and two hours before the first migrant's ringed at the Obs...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

26.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 25th April

Call yourself a Bird Observatory? - just at the moment we're verging on incurring the scrutiny of Trading Standards for purporting to be som...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

25.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 24th April

After yesterday's migration debacle today saw a considerable improvement, with the waft of an easterly and clear skies no impediment to pote...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

24.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 23rd April

Sometimes overnight rain works for us - just a couple of days ago it worked a treat - but on just as many days it kills migration dead which...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

23.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 22nd April

After yesterday's bumper day, today saw a return to the more pedestrian rate of migration that we've grown accustomed to of late with, Swall...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

22.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 21st April

Finally - after what's seemed like an interminable wait - all the variables aligned as fair conditions over the near continent coupled with ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

21.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 20th April

April continues to tick along in a largely underwhelming manner, with most species turned up more or less on cue but for the most part in fa...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

20.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 19th April

With yesterday's rain only finally clearing through just as dawn broke and with a stiff and cold easterly still well established hopes weren...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

19.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 18th April

Well, we needed some rain. On most fronts today was a write-off, with respectability just about provided by some pedestrian sea passage in b...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

18.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 17th April

It was far too fine a day to expect much in the way of new arrivals and apart from the literally flying visit of a Hoopoe at Weston things...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

17.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 16th April

With last night's blasting southwesterlies - the official peak windspeed was evidently up towards 60mph - taking most of the morning to subs...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

16.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 15th April

Another day with plenty of potential that sadly fell short of the mark, with any improvement in the grounded migrant situation being right a...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

15.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 14th April

A day of painful inadequacies on all front: a fresh southerly in mid-April might have been construed to offer the possibilities of a fall of...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

14.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 13th April

We're fans of changes in the weather but today's switch of the wind into the west after weeks of almost constant easterlies did no favours a...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

13.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 12th April

Another day with things just about ticking over, albeit with the general feeling among the fieldworkers that despite the increasing cloud co...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

11.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 10th April

Bar another flurry of Hoopoe sightings today didn't have tremendously much going for it; the unbroken sunshine was again nice but an unwelco...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

11.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 11th April

IN FOCUS OPTICS Optics day this Sunday 13th April @PortlandBirdObs @DorsetBirdClub 07307698798 @DorsetBirdClub @opticronuk @SwarovskiOpt...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

10.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 9th April

Another day that ticked along under a blazing sun and in a still cool northeasterly. For Hoopoe -aficionados it was a day of frustration and...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

09.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 8th April

Once the chill of dawn had passed, an appreciable drop in the strength of the wind made for a pleasant day's birding, even if what was on of...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

08.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 7th April

With not a sniff of a change in the weather there was a real feel of diminished returns about today's proceedings, with a much thinner sprea...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

07.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 6th April

Today had a little bit of everything going for it, with a bountiful selection of grounded common migrants including a couple of firsts for t...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

06.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 5th April

Perhaps we've reached the point in spring where birds are on the move regardless, as today's hardly ideal conditions of blasting wind and cr...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

05.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 4th April

Like the weather, the birding was very much a tale of two halves, with a cold and damp start seeing another decent arrival of grounded migra...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

04.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 3rd April

The northeasterly airflow's showing no sign of abating, but today's increasingly overcast conditions - that heralded the novelty for recent ...

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Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 12th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 11th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 10th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 9th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 8th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 7th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 6th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 5th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 4th May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 3rd May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 2nd May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 1st May

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 30th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 29th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 28th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 27th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 26th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 25th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 24th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 23rd April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 22nd April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 21st April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 20th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 19th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 18th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 17th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 16th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 15th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 14th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 13th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 12th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 10th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 11th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 9th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 8th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 7th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 6th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 5th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 4th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 3rd April

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