Tuesday 20th October 2026.
With rain coming in overnight, I once again left the Moth
Box off. It was a very wet morning in Southsea and a thoroughly wet, miserable
one in Old Portsmouth, where the rain grew heavier as the morning wore on.
Brighter weather is apparently on the way this afternoon,
but the outlook for the rest of the week is poor, with a storm even predicted
for this Friday.
I had hoped to see more Thrushes passing overhead, but there
was no visible migration during the hour or so I spent in Old Portsmouth this
morning.
Pembroke Road, Old Portsmouth:
Despite the poor weather, there were some notable sightings
this morning and when one of the Cross-channel Ferries exited Portsmouth
Harbour, it gave a loud blast of its horn and scattered at least a 100+ Wood
Pigeons off Governor’s Green! A Great Black-backed Gull sailed over the houses
by Penny Lane and again, I heard the House Sparrows ‘chirruping’ distantly from
the hedgerow by the Bowling Green.
The Robin was seen very briefly hopping about on the
footpath adjacent to the Bowling Green and a Wren could be heard bursting into
song briefly in the same area.
The birds seen or heard this morning included the following:
- Herring Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Wood Pigeon
- Feral Pigeon
- House Sparrow (heard only)
- Starling
- Carrion Crow
- Magpie
- Wren (heard only)
- Robin
Other news:
Sadly, not in Hampshire, but in nearby Isle of Wight, a
Pacific Golden Plover has taken up residence with Golden Plovers at Western Yar
Estuary, near Yarmouth, and has been present there for nearly a week. I have only ever seen one
Pacific Golden Plover and that was well in my ‘twitching’ days, where we
travelled to the Yare Valley in Norfolk, at Buckingham Marshes with both Andy
Fisher and Geoff Farwell. However, it took two attempts to see the bird!
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