Saturday 30th August 2025

Wigeon - 1 Brand's Bay

Goosander - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Balearic Shearwater - 52 Portland Bill

Purple Heron - 1 jug Priory Marsh Christchurch (headed up the Avon Valley)

Spoonbill - c20 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Hbr

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 2 Osprey Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 1 Wareham Channel

Knot - 6 juv Browndea Lagoon

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Holloway's Dock

Greenshank - 9  Poole Hbr, 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wryneck - 1 Lower Piddle Valley 

Sand Martin - 130 over Stanpit Marsh, 5+ Brand's Bay

Swallow - 100 over Stanpit Marsh, 10+ Kingcombe NNR

Tree Pipit - 9 over Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 135 Stanpit Marsh

Grey Wagtail - 11 over Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Corfe Mullen

Juv. Purple Heron _ over Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Friday 29th August 2025

Swift - 1 Ulwell Gap.
Ruff - 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Greenshank - 6 Stanpit, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Wick.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Studland.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Wick water-meadows.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Witchampton.
Yellow Wagtail - 7 over Stanpit, 4 Osmington Mills.
Common Redstart - 3 Ulwell Gap.
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle car park.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Ulwell Gap.
Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Stanpit, 1 Ulwell Gap.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Garden Warbler - 3 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit.

Swallow, Osmington Mills © Paul Harris

Yellow Wagtail with horse, Osmington Mills © Paul Harris

Thursday 28th August 2025

Swift - 1 over A35 south of Dorchester
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Sunnyside Farm
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - c30 at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 6 Stanpit, 2 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay
Sanderling - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill -  55 Brownsea Island, 1 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 1 Wick WMs
Hobby - 1 trapped & ringed in Lower Piddle Valley
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit
Yellow Wagtail - 7 over Christchurch Harbour, 4 Sunnyside Farm

Wednesday 27th August 2025

Goosander - 1 stll Christchurch Harbour.
Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - 11 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 5 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 5 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 41 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 52 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 15 west of Abbotsbury, 12+ Priory Marsh.
Osprey - 6+ Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Ham Common.
Hobby - 1 Brands Bay.
Yellow Wagtail - c80 Hengistbury Head. 4 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 2 Lytchett Matravers, 1 west of Abbotsbury, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Upton CP.

Sparrowhawk, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Nuthatch, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Tuesday 26th August 2025

Knot - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Sanderling - 6 Stanpit.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 3 Middlebere, 2 Stanpit.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Silverlakes.
White Stork - 1 over Poole Harbour went NNW.
Spoonbill - 14 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 10 Stanpit.
Osprey - 2+ Poole Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere.
Hobby - 1 Litton Cheney.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP.

Monday 25th August 2025

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Swift - 5 East Bexington.
Nightjar - 1 Longham Lakes (caught and ringed).
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 1+ Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Woodsford Quarry (private area).
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford Quarry (private area).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
White Stork - 55+ over Dorchester.
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor.
Cattle Egret - 7 Priory Marsh.
Osprey - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Bryanston, 1 Crossways.
Red Kite - 2 Bryanston, 1 Kinson.
Wryneck - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Sugar Hill.
Yellow Wagtail - 80+ W of Abbotsbury, 1 Waddock Farm cress beds.
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Stanpit.
Common Redstart - 6 Durlston CP, 3 Lambert's Castle, 1 East Bexington, 1 Maiden Castle.
Wheatear - 8 Maiden Castle area, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 20+ Lambert's Castle, 3 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Castle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 18 Durlston CP, 3 Wild Woodbury, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP.
Nightingale - 1 Culverwell.

Wryneck, Sugar Hill © Rob Morrison

Sunday 24th August 2025

Ringed Plover - 195 from Fisherman's Bank
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Warmwell Cress Beds, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 4 from Fisherman's Bank
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 25 Lytchett Fields
Caspian Gull - 1 West Bexington
Spoonbill - 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Cattle Egret - 4 towards Hengistbury Head
Osprey - 3 around Lytchett Bay
Black Kite - 1 nr. Morden Bog
Wryneck - 1 Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Bearded Tit - 1 West Bexington
Sand Martin - 37 over West Bay
Icterine Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Durlston CP
Grasshopper Warbler - 28 ringed & released at Durlston CP
Barred Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Portland Bird Observatory
Dartford Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Coppet Hill nr. Bridport
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 River Frome, Bradford Peverell, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Cstl
Redstart - 1 bridleway from Maiden Castle car park, 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 3 beyond Maiden Castle car park, 1 Godlingston Hill
Wheatear - 4 beyong Maiden Castle car park, 4 Seacombe
Yellow Wagtail - 10 West bay
Tree Pipit - 5 over Coppet Hill, nr. Bridport, 1 over Stanpit Marsh, 1 Seacombe
Cirl Bunting - 1 male Durlston CP

Yesterday: - 

Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Willow Warbler - 60 over Portland Bill
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory65

Ruff & Wood Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Osprey, Wareham Channel © Don Williams

Cormorant, Longham Lakes © Allan Hansford

Saturday 23rd August 2025

Grey Plover - 15 west over Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 2 over Grimmery Bank
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 7 east over Hengistbury Head
Sanderling - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford Quarries (Private)
Cattle Egret - 6 Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 south over Friar Waddon
Wryneck - 1 in Quarry, Cocknowle
Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Friar Waddon
Green Woodpecker - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Swallow - c620 east over Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Stonehill Down
Nightingale - 1 Bonvils, St. Aldhelm's Head
Redstart - 5 St. Aldhelm's Head, 4 Stonehill Down, 2 over Cocknowle, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 7 Stonehill Down, 5 Chickerell Hive, 2 Friar Waddon
Yellow Wagtail - c20 over Cocknowle, 16 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Friar Waddon, 2 Chickerell Hive
Tree Pipit - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 43 past Portland Bill
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Blackberry Point
Dipper - 1 Maiden Newton
Yellow Wagtail - 120+ over Crouch Hill

Little Egret, Holes Bay © Allan Hansford

Blue Tit, Poole Park © Tina Dawkins

Little Stint, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

 

Friday 22nd August 2025

Avocet - 3 Middlebere Channel
Ringed Plover - 200+ Ferrybridge, 11 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Temminck's Stint - 1 west over Abbotsbury Swannery
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Dunlin - 70 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 20 Middlebere Channel, 5 Shipstal Point, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Heron - 1 juv. still Swineham Point
Osprey - 7 to 10 from BOPH Cruise, 4 Middlebere Channel, 4 Lytchett Bay
Goshawk - 1 juv. from BOPH Cruise
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Wryneck - 1 nr. Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Bearded Tit - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Middlebere / Hartland Moor
Redstart - 3 Middlebere / Hartland Moor, 1 Godlingstone Heath
Whinchat - 2 Middlebere / Hartland Moor
Wheatear - 2 Middlebere / Hartland Moor, 2 Ballard Down

Yesterday: - 

Balearic Shearwater - 24 past Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Knot, Ferrybridge ©

Buzzard, Upton CP © Danni Dyson

Greylag Geese, Poole Park © Tina Dawkins

 

Thursday 21st August 2025

Canada Goose - 1074 Silverlake
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Common Sandpiper - 4 Silverlake, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 1 West Scrape, Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Barn Bight
Red Kite - 1 Maiden Castle
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Fisherman's Bank, Stanpit
Kingfisher - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Hobby - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake
Redstart - 2 Stoborough Heath
Wheatear - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields
Yellow Wagtail - 25 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Peveril Point
Tree Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

Grey Plover, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

 

Wednesday 20th August 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper -4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Wood Sandpiper - 1 on French's Pools at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 briefly at Ferrybridge this morning
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 21 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 2 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 8 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge near Visitors Centre, 1 on Sherford Pools at Lychett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill -  32 Brownsea Island, 16 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake on west lake, 1 Middlebere
Purple Heron - 1 Swineham Point
Osprey - at least 3 around Poole Harbour
Honey-buzzard - 1 east over Hurn
Wryneck - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO, 1 Winterborne Stickland in private garden
Hobby - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 families near Briantspuddle, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Thorncombe Wood
Redstart - 1 Merley in private garden, 1 Parkstone cemetery, 1 Briantspuddle, 1 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 78+  roosted at Hengistbury, 30+ at Briantspuddle

Purple Heron, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

 

White-tailed Eagle chasing Osprey, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

Osprey with fsh before attack from White-tailed Eagle, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

 

Wheatear, Middlebere © Alan Membury

 

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Grey Partridge - 2 Swyre Head
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit
Sanderling - 11 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge from Visitors Centre
Green Sandpiper - 2 Dodding's Farm CBs
Wood Sandpiper - 1 over Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Bay, 2 Brand's Bay, 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill -  36 on Brownsea Lagoon, 9 Wareham Channel, 1 past Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 3 Arne RSPB, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 2 Ashmore
Hobby - 1 Wild WoodburyDWT, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hartland Moor
Woodlark - 4 Hartland Moor
Spotted Flycatcher -14 Wild Woodbury DWT, 10 Hartland Moor, 6+ Pallington Lakes, 2 Stubhampton Bottom
Pied Flycatcher -1 Town Common
Firecrest - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Redstart - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Whinchat - 1 Whitepits (Christchurch Harbour)
Yellow Wagtail - 46 Stanpit

Spotted Flycatchers, Pallington Lakes © Janet Panter

 

Monday 18th August 2025

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Gull - 1 Roosting on Canford Cliff beach

Spoonbill - 34 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Wareham Channel

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Upton CP

Redstart - 1 female Godlingston Hill

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Wareham Common

Late news:

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh (Saturday)

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill (yesterday)

Spotted Flycatcher & Whinchat
Fontmell Down © Mike Kirby

Sunday 17th August 2025

Goosander - 1 Redhead at Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh. 4 Brands Bay, 3 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury west of Swannery, 1 Sunnyside Farm

Spotted Redshank - 2  Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 19  Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow - legged Gull - 14 Arne Moor, 1 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Spoonbill - 21 Middlebere Avocet hide, 16 Wareham Channel

Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 4  Lytchett Bay RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Holt Heath, 1 Fontmell, 1 Wild Woodbury

Sedge Warbler - 15 Wick Hengisbury Head

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wild Woodbury, 1 Fontmell

Redstart - 4 Fontmell, 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Fontmell

Wheatear - 10 West of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Hartland Moor

Yellow Wagtail - 36 west of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Stanpit Marsh, 2  Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hartland Moor

Starlings - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 16th August 2025

Garganey - 1 drake at Radipole Lake RSPB (NOT Lodmoor as previously posted). Present since Aug 10th
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel
Spoonbill -  16 from Coombe Heath, 3 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Eype
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Tadnoll DWT
Redstart - 4 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay, 2 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 5 Hartland Moor
Wheatear -4 Hartland Moor, 2 Brand's Bay

Yesterday : 106 Balearic Shearwaters, 55 Manx Shearwaters and 3 Arctic Skuas past Portland Bill. Also 2 Pied Flycatchers and a Redstart there.

Dartford Warbler, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Whinchat, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Wheatear, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Garganey, Radipole Laker RSPB © Dave Chown

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

 

Friday 15th August 2025

Goosander - 1 female still at Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 10 Stanpit, 3 Brand's Bay
Golden Plover - 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Greenshank - 25 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit
European Storm-petrel - 15 from boat off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 17 from boat off Portland Bill
Spoonbill -  27 on Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret -  10 over Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 south over PBO this afternoon, 1 Brand's Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Bight
Wood Warbler - 1 Knowle Hill (near Church Knowle , Purbeck) this evening
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Knowle Hill (Purbeck),  2 Abbotsbury, 1 South Haven, 1 Upton CP behind stone bench
Pied Flycatcher -1 east end of Lytchett Bay
Redstart - 7 Knowle Hill (Purbeck), 2 South Haven, 1 Stanpit
Whinchat - 1 Abbotsbury
Wheatear - 4 Stanpit
Yellow Wagtail - 7 Stanpit

Goosander, Christchurch Harbour © Garry Hayman

White-tailed Eagle, Christchurch Harbour © Garry Hayman

Wheatear, Christchurch Harbour © Garry Hayman

 

Thursday 14th August 2025

Whimbrel - 5 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 2 Warmwell Cress beds, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 20 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Stork / Crane - 3 High over Wareham Causeway going NE

Spoonbill - 29 Brownsea Lagoon RSPB, 3 Middlebere from Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 from Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Osprey - 8 in the Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere

Hobby - 1 from Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Wednesday 13th August 2025

Golden Plover - 1 flew of Lytchett Fields RSPB

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Whimbrel - 5 Brands Bay

Turnstone - 17 Brands Bay, 1 Ferrybridge

Knot -2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 24 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 9 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Holloways Dock Christchurch Harbour

Little Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Storm Petrel - 1 off Hamm Beach Portland Harbour

Spoonbill - 24 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Wareham Channel

Cattle Ergret - 12 Abbotsbury North of the Swannery, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Osprey - 2 from Coombe Heath Arne RSPB, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Red Kite - 1 Abbotsbury

White Tailed Eagle - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Abbotsbury

Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Lesser Whitehroat - 1 Hartland Moor

Redstart - 2 Hartland Moor

Whinchat - 1 Hartland Moor

Wheatear - 6 Abbotsbury, 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Perveril Point

Yellow Wagtail 4 Abbotsbury

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 12th August 2025

Goosander - 1 still at Christchurch Harbour
Nightjar - 1 trapped & ringed in Piddle Valley
Whimbrel - 4 Wareham Channel, 3 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB from shelter
Spotted Redshank - 2 again at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 25+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit
Black Tern - 1 through Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill -  29 on Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 5 Wick
Great White Egret - 1 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 4 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 2 Didlington
Garden Warbler - 1 Stanpit
Grasshopper Warbler - 17 trapped & ringed plus 5 retraps in Piddle Valley, 1 Stanpit
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Didlington
Yellow Wagtail - 9 Stanpit
Wheatear - 4 Stanpit, 1 Pymore, 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Middlebere, 1 Shell Bay 

Linnets, Shell Bay © John Bishop

Wheatear, Shell Bay © John Bishop

 

Monday 11th August 2025

Garganey - 1 across Christchurch Harbour
Goosander - 1 still at Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 15 Stanpit, 4 Brand's Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 briefly at Stanpit Creek this morning
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit
Knot - 2 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Ruff - 1 Brand's Bay
Little Stint - 1 flew through Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 2 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill -  1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Cattle Egret - 7 Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler - 1 Houns-tout, 1 Stanpit
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Firecrest - 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Stanpit
Redstart - 1 Houns-tout, 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit
Wheatear - 11 Houns-tout, 1 Stanpit
Tree Pipit - 7 trapped & ringed and 1 retrapped at Wild Woodbury DWT, 1 Stanpit

Other news : The Roy Dennis Foundation and Forestry England have confirmed that a pair of White-tailed Eagles from the reintroduction programme have sucessfully bred in Dorset this year. They raised a single chick, the first in the county for over 240 years.

Ruff, Brand's Bay © Garry Hayman

 

Sunday 10th August 2025

Great White Egret - 6 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 3 Wareham Channel

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 6 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Upper Allen River

Greenshank - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Swift - 6 East Stanpit Marsh

Blackcap - 10 Hengistbury Hd.

Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Whitethroat - 7 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Sedge Warbler - 8 Hengistbury Hd.

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Knobcrook Wimborne, 1 Lytchett Fields (by Sewage Works)

Yellow Wagtail - 3 over Stanpit March, 2 Upper Allen River

Serin - heard in private garden Portland Bill

Saturday 9th August 2025

Goosander - 1 Christchurch Hbr

Balearic Shearwater - 13 Potland Bill

Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 over the Wareham Channel/Keysworth

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wareham Channel/Keysworth

Osprey - 5 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Longham Lake & Christchurch Hbr, 

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Arctic Skua - 4 Portland Bill

Kittiwake - 150 - Portland Bill

Little Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Yellow-legged Gull - 5 Portland Bill

Swift - 47 Stanpit Marsh

Sand Martin - 61 Stanpit Marsh

Swallow - 36 Stanpit Marsh

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Wick

Melodious Warbler - 11st/w Portland Bill (trapped & ringed)

Whinchat - 1 Ditchmoor , 1 between Clandown Fm & Maiden Castle.

Wheatear - 12 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point,

Yellow Wagtail - 11 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Portland Bill

Tree Pipit - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Portland Bill

Whinchat - near Maiden Castle © Colin Chainey

Friday 8th August 2025

Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Christchurch

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 18 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Avocet - 23 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Gull - Abbotsbury Swannery

Thursday 7th August 2025

Cattle Egret - Priory Marsh, Stanpit

Spoonbill - 18 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay

Common Sandpiper - 3 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 2 at Postbox Pool Lodmoor RSPB

Little Tern - 3 Christchurch Harbour

Arctic Tern - juvenile Christchurch Harbour

Little Gull - 2 roosting at Hollaway's Dock Christchurch Harbour

Yellow-legged Gull - 2cy Stanpit Marsh

Nightjar - 2 Lower Piddle Valley (caught & ringed)

Whitethroat - 7 Lower Piddle Valley (caught & ringed)

Grasshopper Warbler - 7  Lower Piddle Valley (caught & ringed)

Whinchat - 1 west of Abbotsbury Swannery

Wheatear - 1 St. Nicholas Church, Christchurch, 7 west of Abbotsbury Swannery

Yellow Wagtail - 3 Hengistbury Head

Tree Pipit - 2 Lower Piddle Valley (caught & ringed)

 Juv. Goshawk - Mid-Dorset © Paul Harris

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on Post Box pool
Green Sandpiper - 7+ Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour (Holloway's Dock)
Balearic Shearwater - 50 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill -  9 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Osprey - 8 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 over Rempstone Forest
Wheatear - 2 Nine Barow Down, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 1 Middlebere, 1 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay

Tuesday 5th August 2025

Goosander - 1 Stanpit
Knot - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Lodmoor RSPB (seen on pool at end of Southdown Ave and on Post Box pool)
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill -  14 Brownsea Lagoon, 12 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 7 Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Stanpit
Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 1 near open barn at Greenlands Farm

Monday 4th August 2025

Quail - 1 singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Cuckoo - a juvenile at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Lodmoor RSPB on pool at end of Southdown Avenue
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile past Hengistbury Head this evening
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Firecrest - 1 trapped & ringed at Wareham
Black Redstart - 1 in a Keyhaven garden

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 3 Warmwell CBs this evening
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Lodmoor RSPB (one on West Scrape & 1 on Postbox Pool)
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Wick, 1 Wareham Channel
Cattle Egret - 1 opposite Grimmery Bank (Christchurch Harbour)
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Black Kite - 1 seen circling north of Blandford Community Hospital this morning
Firecrest - a juvenile trapped & ringed at Durlston CP

Saturday 2nd August 2025

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Swift - 33 west over Hengistbury Head
Avocet - 22 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Sanderling - 6 Brownsea Lagoon
Dunlin - 120 Brownsea Lagoon, 11 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 17 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 19 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wick Hams
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 3 Wareham Channel
Peregrine - 2 over Wick Fields
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Coombe Heath
Redstart - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Whinchat - 1 Parky Meade Rail
Wheatear - 5 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Parky Meade Rail

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill

Dipper, Maiden Newton © Mark Churchill

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Hobby, River Frome, Wareham © Conor MacLeod
 

Friday 1st August 2025

Whimbrel - 5 Brands Bay
Curlew - 91 Brands Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Pool top end of Southdown Ave, Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Holloway's Dock
Meditteranean Gull - 153 Brands Bay
Sandwich Tern - 106 Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 2 off Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Osprey - c10 around Poole Harbour area
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
Hobby - 1 over Middlebere
Red Kite - 3 Upper Allen Valley, 1 Christchurch Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Middlebere
Marsh Tit - 1 Upper Allen Valley
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 on Stanpit Marsh, 1 South Haven, Studland
Firecrest - 2 Upper Allen Valley, 2 The Wood, Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 North Scrubs, Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 2 The Wick, Christchurch Harbour, 1 Upper Allen Valley
Wheatear - 5 Crouch Hill, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 over Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Kittiwake - 50 past Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 5 ringed at Portland Bill
Gannet - c300 off Portland Bill

 

Common Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Curlew, Arne © Mandy Lennox-Gordon

Spoonbills, Middlebere © Brandon Storey

Thursday 31st July 2025

Garganey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Goosander - 1 Grimmery Bank
Cuckoo - 1 juv past Viewing Shelter, Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Holes Bay, 2 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpier - 3 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Shipstal Point, Arne
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 2 ad. & 1 juv Poole Harbour, 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Midlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Piddle Valley
Firecrest - 1 The Wood, Hengistbury Head, 1 Piddle Valley
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadow

Yesterday: -

Common Scoter - 14 off Portland Bill
Black Tern - 1 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 6 off Portland Bill

Green Sandpiper, Middlebere © David Nunn