Portland Bill & Ferrybridge - Sun 27 Oct

A day out with friends today and a visit to Portland Bill and Ferrybridge in the morning, starting at Portland Bird Observatory where we saw a total of three Firecrest feeding in the garden. A walk down to the Bill produced three Black Redstart, and although a got a reasonably decent photo, the bird was facing away from me.

A late Wheatear was on East Cliffs with several Rock Pipit and a lone Purple Sandpiper. Out to see it was pretty quiet but a few Gannet and Mediterranean Gull were passing through with a handful of Razorbill and a couple of Guillemot. One of two distant Kittiwake went through heading west.
Leaving the island we stopped off at Ferrybridge to check out the Brent Goose flock, but unfortunately a chap with a massive camera decided he would try and get in the flock and flushed them all. Despite his poor fieldcraft we did see two Knot, a dozen Turnstone and several Dunlin and Ringed Plover. A lone Red-breasted Merganser was on the water and around five hundred Mediterranean Gull were present. A single Bar-tailed Godwit rounded off a decent morning.

Leaving Weymouth we then headed west to explore further up The Fleet.