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
Crossbills (LEOs and Nightjar)
Evidently going to be a Crossbill year with more this morning, either perched or on the move. At least sixteen at Luccombe Village includi...

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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 ...
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A couple of days ago (October 15th), George found a Richard's Pipit along the coast and just west of the Lighthouse, which again was se...
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Feb 14th : Found a 1st winter Caspo today (around midday) at Sandown Canoe Lake (in brisk easterlies), which didn't linger unfortunatel...