Spent the morning at Portland. Weather was suitably atrocious for seawatching, and I spent the first 3 hours of daylight holed up between beach huts south of the Bird Obs. Really sheltered from the elements there, and the scope didn't require cleaning once, the horizontal rain was missing me completely.
Best birds were a Pomarine Skua (Dark Morph) heading South West, and a couple of Divers, one of which was an Adult Winter Great Northern Diver. Plenty of Gannets, and Kittiwakes, plus 1 definate Razorbill, and several auks sps.
Closer to the beach huts were a couple of Rock Pipits, and I got a very brief glimpse of a Purple Sandpiper.
Got soaked heading back to the car, and Ferrybridge was extremely difficult to scan. Did manage a Pale Bellied Brent Goose (my first pale bellied, although I suspect I saw a few many years ago, before people took much notice of races!). A really smart bird, wouldn't mind seeing more in slightly calmer conditions. | 
