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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: 11th April

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

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

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 ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

03.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 2nd April

Although we're stuck in samey conditions - blazingly bright and sunny with a naggingly strong northeasterly a constant feature - and the bir...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

02.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 1st April

Today's blasting easterly may have made for challenging conditions in the field but there were plenty of rewards to be had from the various ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

01.04.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 31st March

Whilst today saw a slight upturn in proceedings, it's fair to say that March fizzled out with a whimper rather than a bang. An Osprey arrivi...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

31.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 30th March

Far too fine a night and day to expect much in the way of grounded migrants and a Bullfinch was about as good as it got at the Bill, where e...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

30.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 29th March

Had it not been for the continuing Dotterel at Ferrybridge today would have been distinctly underwhelming on the migrant front, with the cry...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

29.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 28th March

On another day, this morning's short band of pre- and post-dawn rain might have precipitated a drop of migrants but today things didn't work...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

28.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 27th March

With dawn breaking to the sight of yesterday's blanket of fog still hanging low over the island it could easily have been assumed that there...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

27.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 26th March

Another pleasant day's birding although ultimately prematurely curtailed when a blanket of fog - all too often the blight of anticyclonic ea...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

26.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 25th March

A relatively low-key day although no less enjoyable for that, with fair conditions allowing for plenty of fieldwork. A small influx of Firec...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

25.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 24th March

A cooler day than yesterday but the birding was distinctly hotter, at least in terms of quality if not quite quantity. Any day that starts w...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

24.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 23rd March

That's more like it: a taste of the Portland spring we're used to and not the wholly inadequate offerings visitors have had to put up with h...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

23.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 22nd March

What a really strange period of migration this is: quite how we can be tapping into so many record-breakingly early arrivals during a period...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

22.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 21st March

Whilst this morning's cold and grey start didn't really proffer much hope on the migration front, a scattering of new arrivals just about ke...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

21.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 20th March

The variety of migration on offer today was perfectly in keeping for the first day of astronomical spring, with birds continuing to make the...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

20.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 19th March

Today saw another exciting pulse of early spring migration, although this would have been hard to appreciate from a walk around the Bill whe...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

19.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 18th March

First off, Happy Birthday to ourselves - we're almost up to OAP vintage: today's the 64th anniversary of the official opening of PBO at its ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

18.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 17th March

It was heartening to be woken by a Rain Alarm alert today and to look out and find that heavy cloud cover had rolled in overnight. Whilst th...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

17.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 16th March

By way of 'proper' migrants, the fact that a lone Snipe at the Bill was the day's show-stealer just about said it all today; single Black Re...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

16.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 15th March

Same weather, same migrants, slightly different numbers. Being a nice bright weekend day there was an increase in coverage but, sadly, more ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

15.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 14th March

A lovely albeit still chilly day but one with few noteworthy migrant happenings. A Short-eared Owl was new at the Bill where 7 Wheatears , ...

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

14.03.2025

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 13th March

IN FOCUS SOUTH WEST Optics day this Sunday 16th March @PortlandBirdObs 10 till 4 @DorsetWildlife 07307 698798 @DorsetBirdClub @opticronuk...

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Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre - Nature & Animals

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: 11th April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 10th 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

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 2nd April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 1st April

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 31st March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 30th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 29th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 28th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 27th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 26th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 25th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 24th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 23rd March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 22nd March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 21st March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 20th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 19th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 18th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 17th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 16th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 15th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 14th March

Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre: 13th March

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