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Portland Bill advice (1 Viewer)
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Darrell Clegg
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Check out the Portland web site http://www.portlandbirdobs.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
There is much information on there including daily updates and a map of the island
Darrell
There is much information on there including daily updates and a map of the island
Darrell
Stevie babe
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You don't mention if you are intending to move to Dorset or just visit.
Close to Portland Bill is Radipole & Lodmoor RSPB Reserves in Weymouth + the Fleet just outside with some good hills just behind the coeast with buzzards. Back east towards Poole is the Arne RSPB reserve and Studland (careful of the naked bathers, they don't like being scoped). North is the Somerset Levels. Slightly inland to the North West is Powerstiock Common. Directly West along the coast is Abbotsbury swannery and West Bexington - check the mere if not dried out should be lots of Reed and Sedge warblers, saw a grasshopper warbler there a few years back.
Check out Nina's posts for news espeically in East Dorset and "Birding the Nothe" (can't rember the website details)
In the words of the Yetties (Folk group from Dorset) Dorset is beautiful.
I'm glad my folks retired there so I have a good excuse to go regularly
Good luck - let us know how you get on.
Steve
Close to Portland Bill is Radipole & Lodmoor RSPB Reserves in Weymouth + the Fleet just outside with some good hills just behind the coeast with buzzards. Back east towards Poole is the Arne RSPB reserve and Studland (careful of the naked bathers, they don't like being scoped). North is the Somerset Levels. Slightly inland to the North West is Powerstiock Common. Directly West along the coast is Abbotsbury swannery and West Bexington - check the mere if not dried out should be lots of Reed and Sedge warblers, saw a grasshopper warbler there a few years back.
Check out Nina's posts for news espeically in East Dorset and "Birding the Nothe" (can't rember the website details)
In the words of the Yetties (Folk group from Dorset) Dorset is beautiful.
I'm glad my folks retired there so I have a good excuse to go regularly
Good luck - let us know how you get on.
Steve
John o'Sullivan
Well-known member
passerine migrants tend to be around the bill area early on in day. Later birds have a tendency to move inland and be found more towards the northward edge of the isle e.g. at the verne or the quarries around portland hotel. I think I that in an easterly overflying migrants go up the west of the island and vice versa. If you are a non- pager person i've always found the people in the obs and at the visitors centre Radipole great for up to date info.
