Short-eared Owls – Portland Bill, Dorset
Having stopped for sandwiches we parked up just south of the Southwell Business Park so that we could walk south along the abandoned fields towards the higher light. This is the favoured area for the […]
Portland Bill
Purple Sandpiper – Portland Bill, Dorset
After a day in the Weymouth area we headed to Portland and on our way to Portland Bill we stopped off at Chesil Cove and connected with the Black Redstart which showed really well on […]
American Cliff Swallow – Portland Naval Cemetery, Dorset
On Thursday my pager bleeped at work and I knew that this meant mega alert and that a major rarity had turned up. In a perverse way I prayed it wasn’t in Dorset and I was therefore slightly relieved to see it was on the Scillies. It was, however, a bird I needed (American Cliff Swallow) and a very rare one at that. I rang Peter who had already had the mega alert on his pager and he had already made some tentative plans to twitch Scilly at the weekend, probably with Richard Baatsen […]
Olivaceous Warbler – Portland Bill, Dorset
Early July is traditionally a quiet time for rarities being too late for spring migrants and too early for autumn vagrants. We were visiting Mum & Dad in the Caravan at Calshot and the hot weather made it a lazy relaxing day. At around 3pm, however, the pager attached to my belt shattered the calm with a Mega Alert. An Olivaceous Warbler had been trapped and ringed at Portland Bill, it had been released into the Observatory quarry but had not been seen since […]
Blyth’s Pipit – Portland Bill, Dorset
Woodchat Shrike, Top Fields, Portland, Dorset
