Wednesday 31st May 2023

Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Common Scoter - 13 Hengisbury Head
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Tern - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 1 Hengisbury Head
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengisbury Head
Red Kite - 7 Wareham Piddle Valley, 2 Morden Bog, 1 Nine Barrow Down
White Tailed Eagle - 1 Morden Bog
Hobby 2 Slepe Heath, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Sandbanks
Whinchat - 1 Portland

Yesterday:  IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF - 1 reported by stone bench Ballard Down

Grey Heron -©Clinton Whale


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Tuesday 30th May 2023

Grey Plover - 2 Chesil opposite Camp rd, 2 Standpit Marsh
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 1 Chesil opposite Camp Rd
Black Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour heading North from Riversmeet Meadow
SQUACCO HERON - 1 near Wool Manor bridge then later seen flying West along the river Frome 
Red Kite - 4 over Fleetsbridge heading towards Canford Heath, 1 Puddletown, 1 Hurn, over the Bakers Arms roundabout
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengisbury Head Nursery

Yesterday - 1 Wheatear at St Aldhelms Head
 
YouTube screen shot of Osprey's CJ7 & 022
feeding their 2 newly hatched chicks
©Birds of Poole Harbour







Wheatear - St Aldhelms Head ©Colin Chainey



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Monday 29th May 2023

Common Scoter - 1 Kimmeridge flying East
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Canford School
Ringed Plover - 70 Ferrybridge, 5 Lytchett Fields
Little Ringed Plover -  2  Stilt Pool Swineham, 2 Tidmoor Point
Bar-tailed Godwit - 28 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 6 Tidmoor Point The Fleet
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Black Tern - 1 Wareham Channel Birds of Poole Harbour Safari Cruise
Manx Shearwater - 71 Past Kimmeridge
Red Kite - 3 over Bridport Golf Club, 2 over Parley, 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
White Tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham Golf Course
Hobby - 3 from Birds of Poole Harbour Safari Cruise, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow wagtail - 1 Portland

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 2 Past Portland Bill, 1 Great skua past Portland Bill



Spotted Flycatcher - Bog Lane Greenspace 
© Garry Hayman

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Sunday 28th May 2023

Grey Partridge - 4 St Aldhelms Head
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Puffin - 1 Dancing Ledge
Red Kite - 7 Over Carey Secret Gardens, 1 Hardy's Monument, over Fleetsbridge
White Tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham
Hawfinch - 2 Portland Bird Observatory & then at Culverwell

Common Whitethroat - St Aldhelms Head © Garry Hayman



Shoveler - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale


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Saturday 27th May 2023

Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill 
Manx Shearwater - 26 E past Kimmeridge
Red Kite - 3 over Fleetsbridge, Poole

Yesterday (26th):
Sanderling - 30+ Abbotsbury Swannery

Puffin, Dancing Ledge © Colin Chainey



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Friday 26th May 2023

Grey Plover - 7 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Brownsea
Ringed Plover - 38 Christchurch Harbour, 26 Ferrybridge
Little Ringed Plover - 2 over Hengistbury Head
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge, 3 Christchurch Harbour
Turnstone - 3 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 17 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Ferrybridge
Dunlin - 18 Christchurch Harbour, 8 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 7 Ringstead Bay
Greenshank - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 SE at Bridging Camp/The Fleet then E over Portland Harbour
Spotted Flycatcher - 10+ Portland, 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lambert's Castle
Corn Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Head

Knot, Ferrybridge, 24th May © Pete Coe



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Thursday 25th May 2023

Turtle Dove - 1 Portland (at Culverwell, Helen's Fields & Chesil Equestrian Centre)
Sanderling - 7 Charmouth Beach
Spoonbill - 1 E Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 N Christchurch Harbour
Whinchat - 8+ Portland, 1 Ballard Down
 
Yesterday (24th):
Eider - 2 still Shell Bay, Studland
Puffin - 5 from Purbeck Puffin & Seabird Cruise
Cattle Egret - 1 roosted Brownsea Lagoon

Common Sandpiper, Stanpit © Scott Usher

 

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Wednesday 24th May 2023

Avocet - 3 Brownsea, 1 Tidmoor
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 briefly Stanpit
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Greenshank - 3 Herbury, 1 Brownsea
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea this am, then Middlebere pm
Great White Egret - 3 N over Wareham Common this evening
Whinchat - 10 Portland, 1 Acton

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Tuesday 23rd May 2023.

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit.
Eider - 2 Studland Bay.
Swift - 37+ St Aldhelms Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Charminster, 1+ Christchurch Harbour.
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit, 1 Pirates' Cove.
Ruff - 1 male in partial breeding plumage at Longham Lakes.
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Poole Harbour, 12 Pirates' Cove.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge.
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit.
Avocet - 2 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 1 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Didlington.
Honey Buzzard - 1 N over Swanage.
Goshawk - 1 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour.
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 12 Christchurch Harbour, 13+ St Aldhelms Head.
Whinchat - 1 Didlington.

Brent Goose, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Monday 22nd May 2023.

Swift - 224 Christchurch Harbour, 96 St Aldhelms Head, 151 Studland (South Haven).
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit, 1 Winspit.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 5 Ferrybridge.
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge.
Red Kite - 5+ Bridport.
Marsh Harrier - 1 St Aldhelms Head.
Hoopoe - 1 Worth Matravers car park.
Hobby - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland (Easton).
Redstart - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 95+ Christchurch Harbour, 200+ Portland Bill, 12+ Portland Castle, 
      21+ St Aldhelms Head, 3 Studland (South Haven).
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Sunday 21st May 2023

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Slepe Heath
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
 Red Kite - 2 over Bridport, 1 Langton Herring, 20 over Abbotsbury, 1 Crossways, 1 Bhompston, 
1 Canford Heath
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Hydes Heath, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hydes Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - minimum 23 from vis mig at St Aldhelm's Head

Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


Sand Martin, Silverlake © Alan Membury


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Saturday 20th May 2023

Nightjar - 3 or 4 Dunyeats Heath
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Red Kite - 56 between East Bexington and Abbotsbury, 17 Poole Harbour, 12 Harcombe 
Western Subalpine Warbler - Female trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory
Firecrest - 2 singing in Delph Wood Poole
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Friday 19th May 2023

 Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Haremere Wood, Coombe Heath NR, 1 Moors Valley, 1 Lytchett Bay
Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Island NT Lagoon, 7 Stanpit
Forster's Tern - 1st winter Brownsea Island NT Lagoon
Red Kite - 1West Bay, 1 Woodville
Hobby - 1 east of Lower Bockhampton
Bee-eater - 2 flew south over Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Ferrybridge

Yesterday: 2 Eider off Shell Bay, 2 Balearic Shearwater past Portland Bill

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


Reed Warbler, Moors Valley CP © John Bishop


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Thursday 18th May 2023

 Quail - 1 Beaminster
Nightjar - At least 3 Black Down
Cuckoo - 1 Tolpuddle
Grey Plover - 10 Brands Bay,6 Stanpit
Forster's Tern - 1st winter Brownsea Island NT Lagoon
Black Kite (escape) - Poole Park
Red Kite - 2 Swyre
Storm Petrel - 1 trapped overnight Portland
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Holes Bay, 1 over Brownsea Island
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Swyre, 2 Stanpit
Blue-headed Wagtail - Swineham GPs

Sanderling, Cogden  © Helen Wood


Nightjar, Black Down  Helen Wood (17th)


Tawny Owlet, Ballard Down © Brian Edge




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Wednesday 17th May 2023.

Swift - 52 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit, 1 The Fleet.
Ruff - 1 male, Abbotsbury Swannery.
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 100 The Fleet.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 reported Poole Harbour.
Arctic Tern - 1 north over Stanpit.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 East over Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Pallington lakes, 1 Shaftesbury.
Hoopoe - 1 Stanpit (Johnstone Rd), 1 West Bexington.
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Thorncombe woods.

Treecreeper, Thorncombe woods © Helen Wood.














Meadow Pipit, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Tuesday 16th May 2023.

Swift - 36 Christchurch Harbour, 105 Poole Harbour, 23 St Aldhelm's Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 16 Shell Bay.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Poole Harbour.
Sandwich Tern - 56 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red Kite - 4 Bridport, 1 Charlton Down, 5+ Christchurch Harbour, 1 Coombe Heath, 21+ Ryall, 1 West Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Coombe Heath.
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Stanpit.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arne, 2 Portland Bill, 1-2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Hawfinch - 1 Portland Bill.

Woodlark, Silverlake © Alan Membury.

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Monday 15th May 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham Point
Garganey - 1 drake at Swineham on Stilt Pool, 1 over West Bexington
Cuckoo - 1 again calling at Wick
Sanderling - 15 Shell Bay
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea View
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Swineham Point
Red Kite - 1 over Dorchester, 1 or 2 over Thorncombe Wood
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Thorncombe Wood
Firecrest - 5 Thorncombe Wood
Hawfinch - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO

Ringed Plover, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

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Sunday 14th May 2023

Garganey - 2 over Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Arne RSPB (Hyde's Heath)
Crane - 3 over Woodville
Wood Sandpiper - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 12 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 at Shipstal Point Arne RSPB
SHORT-TOED EAGLE - a probable seen over Walkfield (near Highcliffe) mid-morning heading west
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Whinchat - 1 Portland Heights
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Corn Bunting - Barleycrates Lane (Portland)

Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Reed Warbler, Radipole Lake RSPB © Helen Wood

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Saturday 13th May 2023

Garganey - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Eider - 2 Poole Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 calling Butterstret Cove, The Fleet
Manx Shearwater - 4 off St. Aldhem's Head
Purple Heron - 1 Lodmoor RSPB until 1840 when flew high E.

Spotted Flycatcher, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman


Whitethroat, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney

 

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Friday 12th May 2023

Eider - 2 Shell Bay
Sanderling - 15 off Pilot's Point, Shell Bay
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 over Parkstone Heights, 1 over Bridport
Hoopoe  - 1 north of Crossways Garage in field towards on Woodsford
Hobby - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hampreston WMs, 1 Studland Heath
MOLTONI'S WARBLER - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO and released in Obs Quarry this morning, but not seen after 5:30pm

Image
Moltoni's Warbler, Portland Bill © Pete Coe

 

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Thursday 11th May 2023

Red Kite - 1 over the Wareham Channel
Osprey - 2 over the Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 on the Arne RSPB shore along the Wareham Channel
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/w again on Brownsea Lagoon
Cuckoo - 1 Wick reedbed, 1 heard from Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Corn Bunting - 1 Higher Charminster

Chaffinch - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale











Corn Bunting - Higher Charminster © Derek Fowler


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Wednesday 10th May 2023

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Is. on shingle beach from birdboat
White-tailed Eagle - 2 seen from Shag Looe Spit
Hobby - 1 distant from Swineham Pt.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham scrapes
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/winter again on Brownsea Lagoon
Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Hooded Crow - 1 Portland Bill seen flying north along the West Cliff
Corn Bunting - 1 Ferrybridge

Egyptian Vulture - 1 reported as possibly this species north over Blandford 11:00hrs


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Tuesday 9th May 2023

Common Scoter - 30 Hengistbury Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd, 1 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Fairmile Christchurch, 1 over Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 1 in of sea at Studland, 1 over Hydes Heath
Common Crane - 3 over Charminster
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/winter again on Brownsea Lagoon
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill (in Helen's Field)
Cuckoo - 1 at Wick, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Thorncombe Wood
Serin - 1 Portland Bill
Corn Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Warbler - Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Long-tailed Tit - Sturminster Newton © John Bishop







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Monday 8th May 2023

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Forster's Tern - 1 again Brownsea Island Lagoon

Peregrine - Bournemouth © David Wareham


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Sunday 7th May 2023

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Garganey - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham
Swift - 14 over Wimbourne
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Puddletown Forest, 1 Swineham
Crane - 1 Flew west over Lewell nr Dorchester
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Stilt Pols Swineham
Little Stint - 2 Peveril point late evening
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes seen on both North & South lake
Pomarine Skua - 1 East past Portland Bill
Great Northern diver - 1 past Chesil cove
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Red Kite - 1 over Longham Lakes
White tailed Eagle  - 2 over Church Knowle early afternoon
Hobby - 3 Longham Lakes, 3 Pallington Lakes, 1 over Hatch Pond
Golden Oriole  - 1 Heard calling Whitchurch Canonicorum
Wood warbler - 1 Broadcroft quarry Butterfly NR Portland
Garden Warbler - 3 Pallington Lakes

Garden warbler - Pallington Lakes © Rebecca Porter




Stock Dove - Hengisbury Head © Clinton whale



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Saturday 6th May 2023

Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Southover nr Tolpuddle, 1 Longham Lakes
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Jerry's Point Poole Harbour
Whimbrel - 31 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 1 still on South lake of Lonagham Lakes
Black Tern - 2 Ferrybridge  flying East off Chesil Beach
Storm Petrel - 1 Flying East off St Aldhelms Head
Hobby - 2 Sherford Bridge Wareham Forest
Yellow Wagtail - 1 poss 2 at Abbotsbury Swannery

Brent Goose - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Friday 5th May 2023

Garganey - 1 Drake on Stilt Pool Swineham
Alpine Swift - 1 flying South over Shillingstone
Swift - 6 over Peveril Point NR Swanage, 6 over Lyme Regis
Golden Plover - 1 Silverlake
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham, 2 Todber
Purple Sandpiper - 11 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTERS TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon am & pm and off Bournemouth mid afternoon
Great Skua - 1 flying East off Est Bay
Pomarine Skua - 6 past Portland Bill, 3 past St Aldhelms Head, 1 past West Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 East of St Aldhelms Head
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Firecrest - 2 North of Hatch Pond Poole
Redstart - 2 Morden Bog
Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog

Common Whitethroat - Hemgisbury Head
© Clinton Whale




Reed Bunting - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale







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Thursday 4th May 2023

Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTERS TERN - 1 Double Dykes Hengisbury Head Am then back on Brownsea Island Lagoon Pm
Pomarine Skua - 4 East off Chesil Cove,  4 flew past Charmouth, 2 Past Portland Bill East Cliffs
Arctic Skua - 1 Off Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 West off St Aldhelms Head
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Past Portland Bill
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour incl the return of 2021 translocated 2yo female 372
Honey Buzzard - 1 in off the sea at Portland Bill and continued North
Red Kite - 2 Sandford, 1 Bridport, 1 Bere Regis
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Hoopoe - 1 in a private garden Kimmeridge
Golden Oriole - 1 male seen flying towards Powerstock Common from Eggardon Hill
Wheatear - 1 Woodville

Wheatear - Woodville    ©John Bishop


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Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Avocet - 1 E past West Bay, 1 Littlesea, The Fleet
Bar-tailed Godwit - 25 Littlesea
Sanderling - 7 Ferrybridge 
Purple Sandpiper - 14 Lyme Regis (The Cobb)
Little Gull - Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTER'S TERN - mid-am at Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint, then back on Brownsea Lagoon early pm
Osprey - 1 N over Lanehouse, Weymouth
Hoopoe - Hengistbury Head this am but mobile
Golden Oriole - fem/imm male N over PBO at 10:30am


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Tuesday 2nd May 2023

Nightjar - 2 heard last night Rempstone Heath
Whimbrel - 45 off Chesil Beach
FORSTER'S TERN - again on Brownsea Lagoon midday at least
Hoopoe - 1 Peveril Point, Swanage this evening in wooded area, 1 Swyre in private garden briefly this am
Garden Warbler - 25 Hengistbury Head
Ring Ouzel - male still Portland in fields by Weston Street
Serin - males singing PBO this am, and Southwell (private garden) this pm
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Monday 1st May 2023

Garganey - drake briefly Holme Lane GP this am
Whimbrel - 23 Lytchett Bay, 3 Lodmoor, 2 West Bay
Little Gull - ad Lytchett Bay, 2 Upton CP
Yellow-legged Gull - sub-ad West Bay
FORSTER’S TERN - still Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Stilt Pool, Swineham
Black Kite - Coombe Valley 10:05am then E towards Osmington
Ring Ouzel - male still Weston Street, Portland


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