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- Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 23rd of June 2012
- Exploring Nature Walks Waycroft Quarry 29th of June 2012
- ACO Musto Skiff World Championships at WPNSA
- The Prince of Wales Visits the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
- Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 16th of June 2012
- Exploring Nature Walks Fancy’s Family Farm 22nd of June 2012
- Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 9th of June 2012
- Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 2nd of June 2012
- Exploring Nature Walks Smallmouth 8th of June 2012
- London to Portland Small Ships Race to be Celebrated at the WPNSA
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ACO Musto Skiff World Championships at WPNSA
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) are hosting 104 Musto Skiffs this week for the ACO Musto Skiff World Championships. After two days of pre-worlds warm up regatta competition, the main event started yesterday and will finish on the 30th June. The competitors are expecting to sail twelve races. The WPNSA is a [...]
The Prince of Wales Visits the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
The Prince of Wales visited the Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy (WPNSA) today, June 26th where he toured the Games venue for the sailing competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Hosted by Chairman of the WPNSA Edward Leask, Chief Executive John Tweed and Ben Ainslie who is a triple Gold medalist [...]
Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 16th of June 2012
16th – Barely a sniff of an improvement in the weather today – if anything it got progressively windier as the day went on. For the most part seawatching was disappointingly unproductive, but persistence eventually produced a tally that included 5 Pomarine Skuas, 5 Arctic Skuas and 2 Storm Petrels through or lingering at Chesil [...]
Exploring Nature Walks Fancy’s Family Farm 22nd of June 2012
A Facebook message from Jon Illsley sent us scurrying over to Fancy’s Farm to look at a bumper crop of Early Gentians that he had reported flowering all over his fields. When we got there we were warned that we might have a bit of a job counting them as there were at least 400 [...]
Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 9th of June 2012
9th – A gradual return to normality on the weather front saw the strength of the wind ease away as the day went on, although it remained brisk enough through the morning to ensure there was another decent selection of reports from the sea. The Bill produced the lion’s share of the numbers, with Manx [...]
Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 2nd of June 2012
2nd – A blast of easterly in increasingly poor conditions – fog was a feature for much of the day and light rain had arrived by early evening – made a bit of difference today, with a few late migrants dropping in and a couple of brief highlights. The quality was provided a Hawfinch that [...]
Exploring Nature Walks Smallmouth 8th of June 2012
Unseasonal gales had brought seabirds such as Pomarine Skuas and Storm Petrels to Chesil Cove but we didn’t fancy getting blown about in the wind so we devised a cunning plan… In gales most seabirds struggle along Chesil Beach and past the Bill, often giving birdwatchers at these sites dramatically close views. But a close [...]
London to Portland Small Ships Race to be Celebrated at the WPNSA
On Friday the 15th June, a fleet of up to twenty Sail Training vessels crewed by 200 young people will arrive in Portland from East London as part of the London to Portland Small Ships Race. Their arrival is only the start of an exciting weekend, which includes a visit from Her Royal Highness the [...]
Portland Bird Observatory Report Week Commencing 26th of May 2012
26th – Despite it remaining very warm the strength of the easterly wind put a real downer on proceedings today, making birding very difficult and restricting the catches in the moth-traps. An Osprey that arrived in off the sea at the Bill was the pick of the new arrivals, with the light scatter of ones [...]
Exploring Nature Walks Verne Naval Cemetery 1st of June 2012
With all sorts of exotic birds from the continent such as Bee-eaters, Rollers and Coursers turning up elsewhere in the country we thought we would have a look at the Verne again, just in case. We had already managed a great view of a Sparrowhawk while we were still in the hotel car park and [...]