Saturday 6th September 2014

   A visit to Portland & Weymouth today, hoping for some migrants. We got to see some, but very few photographable sadly.....

    We were watching the Obs quarry, waiting to see a Nightingale, which had been seen there earlier, when a shout of Osprey went up. We all looked up and there it was, quite high up, but an obvious Osprey, very nice. A Redstart landed in some Blackthorn near the quarry, but then quickly disappeared too. Another shout of Osprey, this time further away, the other side of the Obs. Two in a day, not bad.....

   Then Joe Stockwell, the Obs assistant warden, walked across to the quarry, carrying a ringing bag. He opened it, to reveal a Grasshopper Warbler, which he had just ringed. It flew straight to the other side of the quarry, never to be seen again.....

   There was a fair bit of movement in the quarry, which was catching people out.....it was mainly Whitethroats.

Whitethroat

   Eventually the Nightingale showed a couple of times, very briefly though. Then it disappeared again too. A fly over Yellow Wagtail, was the only other thing of note really.

Spoonbills

    A fairly quick visit to Lodmoor RSPB, produced 2 juvenile Spoonbills from the shelter.

   Usual excuses I'm afraid....including the light was all wrong, and from the completely wrong direction...