With no sign of yesterday’s Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler at Portland, we headed straight to the first summer Collared Flycatcher. After an hour of frustratingly brief glimpses through the crowd of people into the garden where it was staying, someone found the field where we were actually supposed to have been viewing from, and we immediately had great views. I was standing next to Adrian Webb at the time and he took this photo with his huge lens:
A Peregrine was the only other bird of note seen during the wait adding to the Hobby that we had seen somewhere in the New Forest. We then headed off for at sea-watch at the bill. The sea was rather quiet and in about an hour we managed the following:
Shag x 3
Guillemot - many.
Gannet - many.
Puffin x 3
Fulmar x 5
Kittiwake x 4
Manx Shearwater x 6
Turnstone x 3
Razorbill x 2
Rock Pipit x 11
Swallows- many in off.
We then went for a walk around the bill and the obs’, finding not very much before heading off to double check the Bonelli’s site. Although there were many Phyllosc’s, they were all Chiffchaffs or Willow Warblers, so after a quick drink in the pub by the bill, decided to head home, arriving early evening.
