11th October 2014

First stop today was as Ferrybridge, Weymouth to look for the two Grey Phalaropes. There was no sign so we moved on to Chesil Cove where another birder had already located the two birds just off the beach. It was very difficult to photograph them given their size and the roughness of the sea made photographing them through the scope very difficult indeed.

Next stop was Reap Lane Portland, where we instantly located the juvinile Rose-Coloured Starling amongst a flock of common starling. It dropped into the scrub shortly after though, and we didn't relocate it for another 10-15 minutes, after which it gave superbly close but brief views, thus we failed to photograph it. After this, it suddenly started to pour down, preventing any further attempts at photographing it.