Saturday, 5 April 2025
Island Tick
Thursday, 20 March 2025
SCP (Scoters, Little Gulls, swallow etc)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Harrier (St Cath's)
Saturday, 8 March 2025
SCP (Skua, Velvets etc)
Wheelers Bay Ventnor: (fem type) Black Redstart on March 5th.
SCP (St Cath's):
Sat March 8th: morning sea watch with George H [06:40-08:50]. Easterlies (ESE). Given it's early March, there was enough to keep us interested with a few highlights: an Arctic Skua east (by date early in the season), as well as three Velvet Scoters (with a scoter flock), a mixture of ducks (100+ scoter, Pintail, teal etc). LBB gulls. In off mipits etc. Number-wise somewhat paltry compared to Dunge?! but enjoyable all the same.
Sun March 9th: similar conditions (easterlies): SCP [06:40-09:35] with George (then Ollie): slow going, but some things moving eastwards: C.Scoter 26, LBB 10, Shoveler 7E, RTD 12E/2on, Common Gull 13, etc. Mipits in-off c60, a few alba/pied wags including a good candidate for White Wagtail (coasting low and east). My first singing Chiffchaff.
Ventnor: Hummingbird hawk-moth on March 10th (and chiff calling over Leeson Road).
Mind boggling Pintail numbers!!! Full totals ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/fqG5Avaug1
— Dungeness Bird Observatory (@DungenessBO) March 7, 2025
Friday, 28 February 2025
End of Feb
Friday, 14 February 2025
CASPIAN Gull (Sandown)
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Velvet Scoters (Little gull)
Sunday, 2 February 2025
BN Grebe
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Black Redstart (SCP)
Walked from home (Ventnor) to SCP today (Jan 14th): nearly 10 miles there and back - on a pleasant and slightly milder day. I had Black Redstart in mind and sure enough one was near the lighthouse; my first of the year. Some (perhaps) early signs of spring included a butterfly sp on the wing (may have been a peacock?), hazel catkins, snowdrops etc.
Jan 26th: Post Storm Eowyn (quiet) a.m sea-watch at SCP, (SSE/breezy/F6), 08:00-09:25: could only muster 17 RTD, 22 Kitts, 50 Gannets, a few common gulls and fulmars etc...
Humpback sightings continue in Sussex 🐋
— Sussex Dolphin Project 🐬 (@SussexDolphin) January 13, 2025
Thank you to all those who have been reporting humpback sightings over the last week. This footage, recorded by Stan Coddles on Sunday at Birling Gap shows the Humpback whale pectoral fin slapping, a form of non-verbal communication.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/S5UtKS4daU
Drake Lesser Scaup at Longham Lakes this afternoon showing well in poor light. @DorsetBirdClub pic.twitter.com/WydAQGZmnw
— Mike Gibbons (@cloudedyellows) January 17, 2025
Friday, 10 January 2025
Sea watch (& Purple sand)
Friday, 3 January 2025
Purple Sands (Ventnor)
Cropped image of the LESSER YELLOWLEGS at Pennington Marshes, Hampshire.
— MarcM381 (@aquilabirding) January 6, 2025
Original photo by Jeremy MCclemen, pic.twitter.com/LMYyYNmJVm
New Year (WTEs)
Island Tick
April 1st/Tennyson Down : came upon a Large Tortoiseshell along the footpath west of the 'quarry' NT car park. Initially very settl...

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My 1st juv Yellow-legged Gull at Sandown Beach (North of the pier/typical spot for them) on July 15th and 17th.. probably my earliest by ...
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Post a fairly staid sea watch at ' St Cath's ' (early doors with Mark B and Gary H til 09:45), just after I packed up around 10:...
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Yesterday (Saturday Oct 26th) Steve Jones put out news of a Yellow-browed Warbler and a possible Hume's Warbler , both along Bath Road ...