Early spring migrants survive cold snap!
Day two of the Siberian winds and snow showers saw the beach and fields with a dusting of snow and ice. Offshore the sea raged with the...
Cool start to January
January 2017 was dominated by cold weather systems and the coastal habitat was uninviting for many birds and especially passerines! A...
Elusive Dusky Warbler ends a great month
The Bockhill Boys had found a Dusky Warbler in Kingsdown yesterday and so we headed out early this morning to try and locate it....
An obliging Guillemot
The cold easterly winds continued over the weekend and a nice surprise was a winter plumage Guillemot drifting past only a few metres...
Twite a nice find!
A fairly quiet morning was livened up considerably by the discovery of 2 TWITE on the rough ground at the end of the Undercliff....
A day of Migration
After yesterday's amazing trip to Spurn to see Britain's second ever Siberian Accentor, I was up and on the hunt for my own local rarity...
Easterlies deliver a Pallas's Leaf Warbler
Having spent the weekend up North at Spurn, watching mouth-watering numbers of migrants and some decent rarities, it was nice to get out...
A morning of surprises!
Setting out at first light, we were hoping for an eastern rarity, after the cold easterly winds that have been blowing for the past few...
First signs of Winter
October has arrived with cooler winds and a flurry of early winter migrants. A decent walk early today turned up the first Firecrest of...
MEGA patch bird starts the day!
After forcing myself to get up and out at 6.30am following a late night, I walked to my car where I had to get a Camera battery. At...
