Sightings - Tuesday 30th May 2019

Surf Scoter - 1 past St Aldhelm’s Head
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 Abbotsbury
Purple Sandpiper - 8 The Cobb Lyme Regis, 3 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Swift - 30 Longham Lakes
Ring Ouzel - 1 Top Fields Portland
Hooded Crow - 1 East Cliffs Portland
Serin - 1 Southwell, Top Fields Portland

Common Whitethroat Hengistbury Head copyright David Wareham


Sightings - Monday 29th April 2019

Red Kite - 1 Lulworth Ranges
Garganey - 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Whimbrel - 24 Knighton Heath Lakes
Pomarine Skua - 4 Chesil Cove
Common Crane - 2 Horton
Serin - 1 Southwell Portland

Sightings - Sunday 28th April 2019

Egyptian Goose - 6 Knighton Heath
Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake
Cattle Egret - 5 Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 2 Middlebere
Hobby - 3 Arne Moors
Manx Shearwater - 2 Portland Harbour
Laughing Gull - 1 past Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 5 past Portland Bill
Common Crane - 2 Witchampton
Kentish Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Swift - 1 Arne Moors
Melodious Warbler - 1 Culverwell Portland
Hooded Crow - 1 Portland Bill

Sightings - Saturday 27th April 2019

Cattle Egret - 13 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hobby - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 8 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Ferrybridge
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Chesil Cove
Great Skua - 1 Chesil Cove
Melodious Warbler - 1 briefly at Portland Bill in Helen's Field
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head

A fledgling Raven in Bournemouth © David Wareham

Sightings - Friday 26th April 2019

Brent Geese - 5 Arne RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 3 Portland Bill, 1 past Chesil Cove
Black-throated Diver - 2 Ferrybridge, 2 Chesil Cove, 1E St Aldhelm's Hd.
Cattle Egret - 12 Lower Frome Wareham.
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham GP.
Pomarine Skua - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 4 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill
Tree Pipit - 1 Portland Bill
Serin - 1 Portland Bill

Sightings - Thursday 25th April 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Common Scoter - 79E St. Adhelm's Hd, 61 Chesil Cove
Velvet Scoter - 1E St Aldhelm's Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 6 Chesil Cove, 4 Portland Bill, 1E St Aldhelm's Hd.
Black-throated Diver - 3 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1E St Aldhelm's Hd.
Manx Shearwater - 49 past St Aldhelm's Hd, 17 Chesil Cove
Cattle Egret - 26 Abbotsbury Swannery, 14 Lower Frome Valley
Great White Egret - 1 seen Trench nr. Sherborne
Spoonbill - 2 flew up the Lower Frome a.m.
Whimbrel - 39E St. Aldhelm's Hd, 13 Portland Bill, 10+ Lytchett Bay, 2 Longham Lakes, 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Chesil Cove, 2 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 18E St Adhelm's Hd, 7 Chesil Cove, 4 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 12E St Aldhelm's Hd, 10 Chesil Cove, 6 Portland Bill, 1 Ferrybridge
Swift - 2 Longham Lakes
Swallow - 15 Portland Bill
Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed Portland Bird Obs.
Tree Sparrow - 2 Portland Bill

Blackcap - Tadnoll © John Dadds

Sightings - Wednesday 24th April 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Red-throated Diver - past Mudeford Quay
Manx Shearwater - 80 p.m. Camp Rd, 20W MUdeford Quay
Cattle Egret - 12 Swineham GP.
Whimbrel - 37 past Mudeford Quay, 11Camp Rd. 6 Curch Ope, 4 Peveril Pt.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 38 Ferrybridge, 12 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 2 Mill Bridge Sturminster
Arctic Skua - 3 past Camp Rd.
Great Skua - 5 Portland Bill, 1 Camp Rd.
Common Tern - an arrival of 100 Brownsea Is.
Turtle Dove - 1 in off sea Durlston CP.
Swift - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Merlin - 1 Camp Rd.
Hobby - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Wood Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed Portland Bill Obs, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Sightings - Tuesday 23rd April 2019

Garganey - 1 Tidmoor Cove
Ring-necked Duck - 1drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Littlesea The Fleet.
Red-throated Diver - 5E St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Black-throated Diver - 1E St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Manx Shearwater - 6 St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Cattle Egret - 9 Lower Frome Meadows below Worgret, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham Pt. GP
Red Kite - 1 over Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 30 past Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 211 past Portland Bill, 25 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Common Tern - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 11 Portland Bill, 7E St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Great Skua - 2E St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Tern - 3 Portland Bill
Sand Martin - 4E St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Savi's Warbler - 1 Radipolle Lake RSPB
Tree Sparrow - 2 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Portland Bill, 2N St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Bower's Quarry Portland.

Tree Sparrow - Portland Bill © Rich Howes

















Sightings - Monday 22nd April 2019

Barnacle Goose - 2 over Portland Bill
White-fronted Goose - 1 1st winter Swineham GPs
Common Scoter - 81 past Portland Bill
Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 3 past Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1past Portland Bill
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham GPs
Cattle Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Matravers
Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1995 past St Adhelm's Head, 745 past Chesil, 218 past Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Little-ringed Plover - 4 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 4 past Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 2 east St Aldhelm's Head, 2 east past Portland Bill, 1 east past Chesil
Bonxie - 3 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 5 past Portland Bill
Little Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland, 1 Stanpit
Nightjar - 2 calling Beaminster on 20th and 21st April
Hoopoe - 1 Portland
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wheatear - 1 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Head
Savi's Warbler - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 2 males Portland
Tree Sparrow - 2 Portland Bill
Brambling - 1 Portland Bill

Bar-tailed Godwit copyright Lee669

Cetti's Warbler copyright Lee669

Bullfinch copyright Brian Smith




Sightings - Sunday 21st April 2019

White-fronted Goose - 1 Swineham GPs
Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Cattle Egret - 27 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island yesterday
Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Seacombe Valley
Black-winged Stilt - 3 Christchurch Harbour at Spellers Point
Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Tern - 10 Ferrybridge
Puffin - 1 Dancing Ledge
Hoopoe - 1 Portland, 1 Langton Herring
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Rempstone Heath
Cuckoo - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Wyke Down
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Wick Fields
Wheatear - 8 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 1 Portland
Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland
Savi's Warbler - 1Radipole Lake reeling in reeds opposite tennis courts
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wood Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 2 Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female Hengistbury Head
Serin - 1 Durlston CP

Yellow Wagtail Wick Fields copyright Mike Gibbons






Sightings - Saturday 20th April 2019

Rough-legged Buzzard - 1 flew east over Lulworth Camp
Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Manor Yard, Symondsbury
Cattle Egret - 2 over Christchurch Priory
Little Ringed Plover - 2 north Hengistbury Head
Temminck's Stint - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 6 Hengistbury Head
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Cuckoo - 1 Holt Heath, 1 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head
Water Pipit - 6 Stanpit
Wheatear - 16 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland, 1 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland
Wood Warbler - 1 Portland Castle
Willow Warbler - 30+ Hengistbury Head
Garden Warbler - 2 Hengistbury Head
Blackcap - 24 Hengistbury Head
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hengistbury Head
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head

Peregrine Falcon copyright David Wareham

Sightings - Friday 19th April 2019

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit
Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Cattle Egret - 6 Bestwall, Wareham, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Stanpit
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 north over Bridport
Red Kite - 1 West Christchurch, 1 Blandford
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit, 4 Middlebere Channel
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Cuckoo - 1 Swineham
Tree Pipit - 1 Portland
Water Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Portland
Wheatear - 12 Portland, 6 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 5 Portland, 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 Hartland
Whinchat - 4 Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Langton Herring
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland
Whitethroat - 10 Portland
Garden Warbler - 1 Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Portland, 1 male Hengistbury Head, 1 female St Aldhelm's Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head
Serin - 1 Portland

Red Kite over West Christchurch copyright Mike Gibbons
Whinchat, Langton Herring copyright Sue Wingett




Sightings - Thursday 18th April 2019.

Garganey - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Cattle Egret - 28 Portesham, 1in summer plumage Hampreston Meadows.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 over Hampreston, 1 over Keysworth, 1 over White Nothe.
Hobby - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Whimbrel - 53e St. Aldhelm's Head.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Nottington.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Littlemoor.
Little Tern - 2e St. Aldhelm's Head.
Tree Pipit - 12 West Cliffs, Portland, 2 Hengistbury Head.
White Wagtail - 2 West Cliffs, Portland, 7 Portland Bird Observatory.
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Hengistbury Head, 6 Portland Bird Observatory, 1 Lulworth Ranges.
Redstart - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lulworth Ranges, 1 Portland Castle, 1 Reap Lane.
Whinchat - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Portland Bird Observatory, 1 Reap Lane.
Wood Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Willow Warbler - c250 Portland, 30 Hengistbury Head.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Whitethroat - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head,1Lulworth Ranges,1 Stour Valley LNR.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Southwell.
Brambling - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1n over Portland Bird Observatory.
Serin - 1female Reap Lane, Portland, 1male n over Portland Bird Observatory.

Sightings - Wednesday 17th April 2019.

Cattle Egret - 6 Holme Lane.
Red Kite - 1 over near Canford Bottom.
Hobby - 2 over Stoborough.
Little Ringed Plover -2 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Common Sandpiper -1 Lytchett Fields RSPB..
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Cuckoo - 1 heard Stoborough.
Swift - 1 over King Barrow, Portland.
Meadow Pipit - 135 Hengistbury Head/Wick.
Tree Pipit - 3 Hengistbury Head.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Redstart - 11 Hengistbury Head/Wick, 14 in areas on Portland, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Whinchat - 2 Portland.
Willow Warbler - 300 Portland areas, c60 Hengistbury Head/Wick, 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Portesham, 1 Swanage.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Durlston CP, 1 King Barrow.
Whitethroat - 5 King Barrow, 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portesham, 1 Swanage.
Grasshopper Warbler - 14 at various sites on Portland, 3 Durlston CP, 1 Swanage.
Pied Flycatcher - 13 Hengistbury Head/Wick, 1 Portland.

Sightings - Tuesday 16th April 2019.

Garganey - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Eider -7 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Osprey - 1 over Keysworth.
Little Ringed Plover - 9 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Whimbrel - 22 Lodmoor RSPB,7 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Arctic Skua - 6 past Portland Bill.
Little Tern - 1 Chesil Beach.
Short-eared Owl - 4 Portland Bill area.
Tree Pipit - 4 Christchurch, 3 Portland.
Redstart -  4 Suckthumb Quarry, 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Nightingale - 1 Upton Heath.
Sedge Warbler - 1 Suckthumb Quarry, 1 Portland Bird Observatory.
Whitethroat - 2 Portland, 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Suckthumb Quarry, 1 Blacknor, Portland. 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Suckthumb Quarry.
Crossbill - 3 St. Catherine's Hill.

Sightings - Monday 15th April 2019.

Garganey - 14 past Chesil Cove, some resting on sea off Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 2 in summer plumage Lodmoor RSPB.
Whimbrel - 43 past Portland Bill.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Great Skua - 2 past Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua 5 past Portland Bill.
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Little Tern -1 past Chesil Cove, 1 Lodmmor RSPB.
Sandwich Tern - 3 past Chesil Cove, 2 over Lodmoor RSPB.
Arctic Tern 2 past Chesil Cove, 2 off Mudeford Quay.

Sightings - Sunday 14th April 2019

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Garganey - 1 past Chesil Cove
Spoonbill - 3 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 1 from Coombe Heath, 1 over Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1 over Chesil Cove
Hobby - 1 over Blacknor (Portland)
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 12 past Chesil Cove, 3 past Mudeford Quay, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Fisherman's Bank, Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill
Arctic Tern - 1 past Chesil Cove

Reports of interest, Saturday 13th April 2019.

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-Throated Diver - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Manx Shearwater - 3 St Aldhelm's Head.
Merlin - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog.
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit, 8 St Aldhelm's Head.
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Bar-Tailed Godwit - 1 Stanpit, 18 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit.
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury beach huts.
Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Common Gull - 12 Mudeford Quay.
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog.
White Wagtail - 3 St Aldhelm's Head.
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland.


Raven in Bournemouth © David Wareham

Reports of interest, Friday 12th April 2019.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Longham Lakes.
Velvet Scoter - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Red-Throated Diver - 7 St Aldhelm's Head.
Great White Egret - 1 Sturminster Marshall GPs.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Rodden Hive.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Morden Bog.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-Rumped Swallow - 1 Portland Bill West Cliffs.



Black-Tailed Godwit at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart


Egyptian Goose at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Sighings - Thursday 11th April 2019

Brent Goose - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Grey Partridge - 1 Wyke Down
Red-throated Diver - 2 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Winspit
Osprey - 1 off Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB, 1 over Trent
Red Kite - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Worth Matravers, 1 Little Canford
Hobby - 2 Portland Bill
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Short-eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill
Tree Pipit - 1 Middlebere
Serin - 1 flew past cliffs at Winspit

Rook in Oakley,Wimborne © Roger Peart

Sightings - Wednesday 10th April 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 4 St Aldhelm's Head
Cattle Egret - 28 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 over Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Woodville (near Stour Provost)
Merlin - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Bowleaze Cove
Hobby - 1 over Greenlands Farm (Studland)
Stone-curlew - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Jurassic Pool (North Weymouth)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Fisherman's Bank, Stanpit
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Ring Ouzel - 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Garden Warbler - 1 Worth Matravers
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Observatory
Common Redstart - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Serin - 1 singing at the hump off Avalanche Road (Portland)

Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor RSPB © Paul Harris

Reports of interest, Tuesday 9th April 2019.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Longham Lakes.
Hobby - 1 Arne Moors.
Little Ringed Plover  - 5 RSPB Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 2 RSPB Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 3 RSPB Lytchett Fields.
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill.
Nuthatch - Portland Bird Observatory recorded its tenth ever Nuthatch this morning.
Redstart - 2 Portland Bill.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Charmouth.
SERIN - 1 Portland Bill.


Jay in Wimborne yesterday © Roger Peart
 

Reports of interest, Monday 8th April 2019.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Longham Lakes.
Red-Throated Diver - 4 Chesil Beach, 9 St Aldhelm's Head.
Black-Throated Diver - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Chesil Beach.
Manx Shearwater - 4 St Aldhelm's Head.
Osprey - 1-3 Middlebere.
Grey Plover - 3 Middlebere.
Whimbrel - 1 Chesil Beach.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Jurassic Pool (Littlemoor).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere.
Arctic Skua - 3 Chesil Beach, 6 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Puffin - 1 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Whitethroat - 1 Durdle Door.

Late news: Redstart at Winspit yesterday (7th).

Sightings - Sunday 7th April 2019

Garganey - 1 Coward's Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 6 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 4 St Aldhelm's Head
Cattle Egret - 25 Portesham
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham GP
Osprey - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Jurassic Pool (North Weymouth)
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil Cove
Puffin - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Short-eared Owl - 1 Bowleaze Cove
Whitethroat - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Southwell (Portland)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Observatory
Common Redstart - 1 Southwell (Portland)

Sightings - Saturday 6th April 2019

Garganey - 1 past Chesil Cove
Velvet Scoter - 6 past West Bexington
Osprey - 1 St Aldhelm’s Head, 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 12 Portesham
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Black Guillemot - 1 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 past Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 West Cliffs Portland
Common Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm’s Head, Barleycrates Lane Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Barleycrates Lane Portland

Sightings - Friday 5th April 2019

Black-throated Diver - 1 past Chesil Cove
Red-throated Diver - 9 past Chesil Cove
Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole Lake
Common Scoter - 240 past Chesil Cove
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Cattle Egret - 30 Abbotsbury Swannery
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 2 past Chesil Cove
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields
Manx Shearwater - 1 past Mudeford Quay, 8 past Chesil Cove
Little Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 past Branksome Chine
Common Tern - 18 past Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 5 past Chesil Cove
Great Skua - 1 past Chesil Cove
Hoopoe - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sightings - Thursday 4th April 2019

Osprey - singles over Abbotsbury Swannery and Spetisbury
Cattle Egret - 25 Abbotsbury Swannery
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge
Pied Flycatcher - 2 The Milldown LNR Blandford

Sightings - Wednesday 3rd April 2019

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham GPs
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hobby - singles at Bestwall, Blacknor Portland, Dorchester
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Abbotsbury
Tree Pipit - singles at Upton Heath, Sunnyside Farm
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Common Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 1 Barleycrates Lane Portland

Sightings - Tuesday 2nd April 2019

Ring-necked Duck -1 drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Cattle Egret - c30 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 Litton Cheney
Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Redshank - 1Lytchett Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Common Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Swift - 1 reported over Creekmoor Ponds LNR.
Sand Martin - 50+ Longham Lakes, 8 Hengistbury Hd.
Swallow - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 over Lytchett Fields, 1 Poole Park
Willow Warbler - 2 Poole Park
Common Redstart - 1 trapped & Ringed Portland Bill Obs.
Hawfinch - 1 trapped & Ringed Portland Bill Obs

Sightings - Monday 1st April 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Common Scoter - 34 Chesil Beach, 14 Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 Chesil Beach
Great White Egret - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB (possibly same)
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Swineham GP.
Red Kite - 2 east Swanage, 1 Fortuneswell, 1 over Poole
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wryneck - 1 trapped & ring Forston
Merlin - 1 over West Cliff Portland
Sand Martin - 150 Swineham GP, 60 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Chesil Beach
House Martin - 3 over Reap Lane, 1 Swineham GP
Chiffchaff - 18 Hengistbury Hd,
Iberian Chiffchaff - 1 probable trapped & Ringed Portland Bird Obs.
Willow Warbler - 34 Portland Bill, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Blackcap - 18 Portland Bill, 2 Sunnyside Fm.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Slepe Heath, 1 Reap Lane Portland
Fieldfare - 50+ Sunnyside Fm.
Common Redstart - 2 Reap Lane, 1 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 41 Portland Bill, 13 Reap Lane, 10 Ferrybridge, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
White Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Bay
Brambling - 1 over Blacknor Portland

Wryneck, Forston © Alan Reese

























Grey Heron - Lodmoor © David Wareham