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Surprise end of the afternoon catch at the Obs: only the fourth Merlin ever ringed here
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Freaky record: just been to rescue a bird stuck in the roof space of a garage at Southwell and it's turned out to be a male Cirl Bunting!
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An unlikely catch in a mist-net at the Obs - adult Peregrine!
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So often a rain bird at the Bill: Wood Warbler trapped at the Obs after this morning's dose of damp
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The long-staying Wryneck has come out of the woodwork again : first trapped on 8th October and now 25% heavier than it was then - soon be too heavy to leave...
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Great Grey Shrike trapped at dawn at the Obs
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Bizarre late afternoon catch at the Obs: a Hawfinch has just turned up in a mist-net at the Obs
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Well we were hoping this might happen but certainly didn't expect it to: pair of Cirl Buntings turned up together in a net at the Obs
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A very infrequent catch in the Obs garden:
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This Whitethroat is the 616th bird ringed at the Obs today - after a 12 hour session the brain's a bit addled so we might be getting this wrong but we think this is the Portland all-time record day catch
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Wryneck just trapped and ringed at the Obs
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Unexpected mid-June catch at the Obs: a Common Nightingale; a good brood patch evident in the hand so presumably a departing failed breeder
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Melodious Warbler trapped in the Crown Estate Field
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Look what just turned up in a net at the Obs - pretty obviously still about after being missed for a few days!
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The first Redstart of the spring the pick of a nice little flurry of grounded migrants at the Bill; 50 birds ringed so far at the Obs
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A handful of hawks: two each of Striped and Convolvulus from the Obs moth-traps overnight
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Bizarre catch of the day just now: a Woodlark in the bottom of a mist-net deep inside the Obs garden - presumably dived in to avoid a predator (has been a lot of Merlin activity this mrng). Only the second Woodlark ever ringed at the Bill.
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Spotted Flycatchers streaming through over the Obs - nearly 100 already this mrng. Fantastic!
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An early surprise from the Obs mist-nets: Portland's 10th ever Nuthatch
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...and to think, we're usually pretty sceptical about HBs before the middle of the month
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Delighted to be able to announce that we have just been successful in our attempt to purchase the Obs Quarry and adjacent field (together with a further strip of land in the Strips) - further details to follow on the blog tonight.
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A new Melodious Warbler just trapped at the Obs
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There's not a hope of us keeping something like this quiet at the Bill in April so please be aware that there are singing/apparently paired Cirl Buntings currently about the island. Cirl Bunting has Schedule 1 protection so give them a wide berth and DON'T linger near them
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Unlikely catch deep inside the Obs garden: only the second Merlin ever ringed at PBO
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The vagrancy's getting extreme - Budgie trapped at the Obs
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A nice early morning capture at the Obs:
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Another day, a different Hippolais: Icterine Warbler just trapped at the Obs
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Only two birds trapped on the first round of the nets this mrng - let's hope April's ratio of scarces to routine fare continues in this vein:
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Still plenty of Yellow-legged Gulls to get amongst today and the grim weather has given us a chance to write something about one of this summer's most exciting events - Cirl Bunting has bred successfully for the first time at Portland
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Didn't hear this mentioned by anyone else amongst the throng of birders watching the shearwaters at the Bill today but 7 Ruddy Shelducks flew past heading west - photo just sent through by Mike Trew
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Wryneck trapped in the Crown Estate Field
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A nice early catch at the Obs: the first Ring Ouzel of the autumn
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Freaky little late night event: there's a Fox trying to get in the Obs front door!
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Great Reed Warbler trapped at the Obs - shortly to be released in the Obs Quarry
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Freaky mud-summer record: a Hawfinch has just appeared on the bird table in the Obs garden
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Always a pleasure to see: the first Willow Warbler of the spring just trapped at the Obs
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A new Wryneck trapped at the Obs just now
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The Continental Coal Tit just trapped at the Obs - seriously smart little birds!
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Disappointed at the lack of a random capture of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak but a Wryneck that's just dropped in out of nowhere will do for now
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Death's-head Hawk settled on a fence beside one of our garden moth-traps at the Grove; other migrants last night incl 2 more Old World Webworms and a Porter's Rustic at the Obs and an Old World Webworm at the Grove
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Weymouth news of a White's Thrush found dead - seemingly after colliding with a window - last week (probably on Tuesday 12th) at Roundhayes Close
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A proper photo after the previous gratuitous one - haven't heard the precise details yet but seemingly an almost simultaneous find by Dave Bishop and John Lucas on their walks
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Bit of an odd morning: no big arrival of migrants but the Melodious trapped earlier, a singing male Firecrest at the Obs and at least 7 Pied Flys there
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Certainly wasn't expecting a North American vagrant this morning: a Stephens' Gem trapped overnight at the Obs. Seemingly the 9th for Britain and bearing in mind the weather conditions presumably most likely a genuine arrival across the Atlantic rather than a dodgy import
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This is getting like the old days: another Melodious Warbler trapped at the Obs just now
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Good start to the morning's mothing: Death's-head Hawk in the first trap
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Didn't get round last evening to posting the final moments of the Death's Head Hawk warming up on the Obs patio wall before it suddenly shot off into the night
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Hawfinches might look pretty but they're absolutely brutal in the hand
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Melodious Warbler just trapped at the Obs
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To break the recent monotony of Striped Hawks a Bedstraw Hawk caught overnight at the Obs
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One of these years we're going to be too old and knackered to keep doing this but they're always worth it, so while we still can...another hour's sleep lost for the first Storm Petrel of the summer - the earliest date we've ever caught one here
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Large Tortoiseshell at Bottomcombe - alongside the main footpath above the old railway line south of Tescos; nice find by Andy Dyball
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A foot fetishist's dreamland at Ferrybridge this evening: Grey Phalarope strutting its stuff on the shoreline
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Doesn't take long before someone totally ignores requests to not enter the fields to get closer to the Long-eared Owl - it's really very simple: if you haven't got permission from the land owner to enter the fields please just stick to the footpaths
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More typical behaviour from the bird photography community: these two boneheads are within metres of an active Peregrine eyrie and have flushed the birds which are flying around calling constantly. They then ignore requests to leave the site - unbelievable.
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Bountiful nets this mrng : now a Dartford Warbler from the Crown Estate Field
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Red-breasted Flycatcher just trapped at the Obs
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Bit of a bizarre event: Chough landed on top of the Obs lighthouse tower - so close that this was all we could see of it from the patio
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An afternoon bolt from the blue: a Hawfinch has just flown in at the Obs and straight away dropped into a net
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Barred Warbler trapped in the Crown Estate Field
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Interesting ringed Chiffchaff from the Obs mist-nets just now: turns out to have been first ringed here as a migrant on the same date - 17th March - in 2017. Really rare to catch passing migrants in more than one year.
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A proper fall this mrng - 110 ringed so far at the Obs; flurry of 6 overdue additions to the lockdown list there taking the tally to 103
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Disappointed to hear that this afternoon a photographer decided to station himself on the floor of the Obs Quarry right under the Little Owl nest-site - can we remind the numbnuts amongst the photography community that the quarry is out of bounds.
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Little Bunting trapped in the Crown Estate Field
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Exceedingly distant but you get the idea - it's now flown and lost to view heading towards West Cliffs
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A surprise fair little drop of migrants at the Bill this mrng incl the first Grasshopper and Reed Warblers of the season
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Opened the one sheltered net in the Obs gdn on another wildly windy morning on the off chance of catching a Redwing that was in the vicinity and a previously unseen Red-breasted Flycatcher has turned up in it - bit of a fluke
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The Pallas's Warbler still about at the Obs where it's just been trapped
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First Willow Warbler of the spring trapped at the Obs and the first Merlin also just gone through; steady little passage of RtDivers off the Bill - 26 so far this mrng
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Not that it's saying much because they've been having such a grim time if it but more Goldcrests ringed in the last hour than we've trapped on any one day in both the last two years
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Today's Portland news
thanks to Geoff Orton for the spectacular in-hand Hoopoe photos
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Duo of Convolvulus Hawks off the tops of the Obs moth-traps before we've even checked the trap contents
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Wood Warbler trapped at the Obs this afternoon - the pick of a sm flurry of new arrivals with the rain today; also Ring Ouzel at the Bill and 5 Great Skuas thru on the sea.
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Very sad to say farewell today to
@Erin_Taylor93
who's leaving us for 18 months of albatross-bothering with
@BAS_News
on Bird Island, South Georgia.
We couldn't have wanted for a better work-mate in the last three and a half years - have a great time down south.
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A Southern Brindled Green from the Obs moth-traps this mrng - the first for the UK mainland?
@MigrantMothUK
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Swallows enjoying the new pool in the middle of the Crown Estate Field - b****y hard work getting it into a state where it holds water at this time of year so quite satisfying! (...also a Snipe flushed from the edge of it this mrng)
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Our 9th Firecrest ringed this month - equals the total for the whole of last year
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Had begun to look inevitable as it kept returning but the Hoopoe has just turned up in a net in the Obs gdn
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Striped Hawkmoth nectaring at Red Valerian in the Obs garden this evening
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The Red-breasted Flycatcher still at the Obs - just trapped and released in the front garden
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Little Bunting trapped in the Crown Estate Field
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Still ridiculously high nos of common migrants for so late - even on a millpond calm, sunny morning: multiples of Spot Flys, WWs, CCs, Reed Ws, Sedge Ws, Bcaps, Whinchats & a Grasshopper W around the Bill so far today; Balearic Shearwater & Arctic Skua thru offshore
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