Thursday 16th May 2024

Purple Sandpiper - 14 Lyme Regis on the rocks of the Cobb

Cattle Egret - 1 Radipole RSPB  in summer plumage

Great White Egret - 1 Holmebridge 

Osprey - 1 Middlebere Channel

White tailed Eagle - 1 high over Holten Lee / Lytchett Bay

Hobby - 3 Holmebridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Bee - eater - 2 Hengisbury head flew East over Coastgaurds

Rock Pipit - Dancing Ledge © Brian Edge

Wednesday 15th May 2024

Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Swineham
Bar-tailed Godwit - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Ruff - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point, Swanage
Pomerine Skua - - 1 SE off Hengistbury Head
Honey Buzzard - 1 south over Greenhill Bowling Club
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Wareham Channel
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Sherford Pools, Lytchett Fields

Curlew, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Grey Plover, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Grey Wagtail, Maiden Newton © Frank Gardiner

 

Tuesday 14th May 2024

Common Scoter - 5 off Hengistbury Head
Cuckoo - 1 heard near Puddletown
Grey Plover - 3 Lower Piddle Valley
Whimbrel - 5 Brands Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 17 Whitley Lake
Knot - 1 north from Stanpit Marsh
Purple Sandpiper - 2 north from Stanpit Marsh
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 1st summer Holmebridge
Arctic Skua, pale morph - 1 off Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 9 off Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Ferrybridge
Osprey - 1 returning Poole Harbour female on Middlebere Nest Platform,
1 off Swineham Point, 1 Brands Bay
GREAT REED WARBLER - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Garden Warbler - 2 Long Field, Christchurch Harbour

Bar-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Mallard ducklings, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Monday 13th May 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Whimbrel - 3 Brands Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Sherford Pools, Lytchett Fields
Kittiwake - 2 off Branksome Chine
Pomarine Skua - 1 off Ferrybridge
Arctic Skua - 1 off Ferrybridge
Manx Shearwater - 4 off Branksome Chine
Gannet - 8 off Branksome Chine
Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Yesterday (12th):

Stone-curlew - 1 East Fleet

Stone-curlew, East Fleet © Freddy Alway

Grey Heron, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Meadow Pipit, Portland © Sharon Towning

Sedge Warbler, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Sunday 12th May 2024

Cuckoo - 2 or 3 at Stoborough Heath, 1 Stanpit on North Scrubs early this morning,
              1 heard at  Morden Bog, 1 heard at Slepe Heath
Knot - 2 Lower Piddle floods
Greenshank - 1 Lower Piddle floods
Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 4 on East Marsh (Stanpit) this afternoon
Red Kite - 2 over Corfe Castle, 1 Eype, 1 St Ives, 1 Preston (Weymouth)
Alexandrine Parakeet - 1 at PBO
Pied Flycatcher - 1 in a Parkstone garden

Redstart -  1 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP

Stonechat, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

Red Kite, near Corfe Castle © Fiona Keeling

 

Saturday 11th May 2024

Eider - 3 west past Hengistbury
Nightjar - 2 in off the sea at Ferrybridge, 1 flushed at Ferrybridge Visitor Centre

Cuckoo - 1 Tolpuddle eary morning
Turtle Dove - 1 briefly at Newton's Road in Weymouth ealy afternoon

Grey Plover - 1 Cogden & West Bexington
Whimbrel - 25 Cogden & West Bexington
Turnstone - 1 Cogden & West Bexington
Sanderling -  43 Cogden & West Bexington, 1 east past Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 seen at Ferrybridge flying east towards Chesil Cove
Little Gull - 1 still on Bestwall WMs north of Swineham GPs
Red Kite - 3 over Dorchester, 1 Ballard Down
Hoopoe - 1 Portland Bill this morning
Redstart -  female at Tidmoor Point

Yesterday : A Hoopoe flew straight past PBO and 8 Black Terns off Portland Bill .

Great Tit, Studland © John Bishop

Friday 10th May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Wareham Forest

Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lower Piddle floods

Red Kite - 4 over Chideock, 1 Hardown Hill, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Hobby - 3 Wareham Forest, 2 Winterborne Stickland
Wood Warbler - 1 Wareham Forest
Yellow Wagtail -2 Stanpit Marsh
Hawfinch - a male briefly at Blacknor (Portland)

Thursday 9th May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Stoborough Heath, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Hardy Monument
Garganey - 1 drake at Lodmoor RSPB
Ruff - 6 Lower Piddle flood, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank -  4 Lower Piddle flood
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 still on Bestwall WMs north of Swineham GPs

Little Gull - 1 still on Bestwall WMs north of Swineham GPs
Red Kite - 2 over Eype, 1 Wool, 1 Carey
Osprey - 1 over Moordown (Bournemouth)

 

Reed Warbler, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Cuckoo, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

Sedge Warbler, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

 

Wednesday 8th May 2024

Cuckoo - a hepatic female, Hengistbury Head; 2 Wareham Forest.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverlake.
Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 2 past Hengistbury Head.
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 3 Bloxworth, 2 Bridport, 1 Beaminster, 1 West Bay.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Forest.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Monkton Up Wimborne.
Bee-eater - 1 heard Hengistbury Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.

Wheatear, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Tuesday 7th May 2024

Egyptian Goose - 2 Longham Lakes.
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Sherborne, 1 Wareham Forest.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Swineham.
Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 soaring over Throop.
Red Kite - a substantial movement west today, with 150+ W over Abbotstbury Swannery, 

                30+ West Bay, 32 Weymouth, c10 Boscombe, 9 East Holme, 8 Owermoigne, 

                7 Wareham Forest, 4+ Holes Bay.
Hobby - 1 N over Cerne Abbas, 1 soaring Longham Lakes, 2 Wareham Forest.
Sand Martin - c100 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 9 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland (Reap Lane).
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Nightingale - 1 Portland Bill.
Wood Warbler - 1 Wareham Forest.

Late news - Bee-eater at Portland Bill yesterday.

Skylark, Portland © Alan Membury

Cuckoo, Sherborne © Peter Clinch

Dunnock, Portland © Alan Membury

Monday 6th May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Cerne Abbas, 1 Middlebere, 1 Tolpuddle.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lower Piddle Valley floods.
Whimbrel - 9 Brand's Bay, 3 Holes Bay, 3 Lytchett Bay, 4 Middlebere.
Sanderling - 4 Bramble Bush Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point.
Little Gull - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods.
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 passed over Swineham.
Red Kite - 26+ NW over West Bay.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Wytch Channel.
Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Peveril Point.
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP.

Turnstone, Mudeford Quay © Clinton Whale.

Sunday 5th May 2024

Eider - 4 off Hengistbury Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Stanpit including a hepatic female.
Avocet - 3 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 3 past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 5 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Lytchett Bay.
Sanderling - 17 past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Black Tern - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Fulmar - 1 passed through Christchurch Harbour.
Manx Shearwater - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Great White Egret - 1 Hampreston fields, 2 Lytchett Bay.
Pomarine Skua - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 1 E past Kimmeridge, 1 E past 

            St Aldhelm's Head, 1 E past Hengistbury Head - presumably all the same bird.
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Great Northern Diver - 1 W past Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Hengistbury Head.

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge (Swyre Head).
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 1 Kimmeridge (Swyre Head).

Barn Owl - 1 Wick, very unusual in the area.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Hengistbury Head
Garden Warbler - 2 Stanpit.

Shelduck, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 4th May 2024

Cuckoo - 2 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 10 Lyme Regis Cobb

BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Poole Harbour entrance

Little Tern - 2 Longham Lakes
Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Brownsea Lagoon
Pomarine Skua - 2 east past Chesil Cove, 2 east past Peveril Point, 1 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 east past Peveril Point
Osprey - 1 over Bothenhampton (Bridport)

Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Stanpit Marsh
Hawfinch - male trapped & ringed at PBO

 

Lesser Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Friday 3rd May 2024

Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Wick
Garganey - Drake on flood N of Swineham GPs
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Sandspit

Common Sandpiper - 3 Peveril Point, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 on flood N of Swineham GPs
Greenshank -  5 on flood N of Swineham GPs
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs

Little Gull - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Manx Shearwater - 4 west past Peveril Point

Red-throated Diver - 1 west past Peveril Point

Cattle Egret - 1 on flood N of Swineham GPs

Hobby - 1 Morden Bog, 1 over Dorchester Riverside LNR, 1 Arne RSPB

Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Barn Field
Black Redstart - 1 male Ferrybridge

 

Great White Egret, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

Dartford Warbler © Robert Fielding

 

 

Thursday 2nd May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Longham Lakes
Garganey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, a drake on flood N of Swineham GPs
Whimbrel - 9 past Hengistbury Head, 5 Holes Bay, 4 Ferrybridge, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank -  1 Stanpit Marsh
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy again on flood N of Swineham GPs

Arctic Tern - 3 Hengistbury Head
FORSTER'S TERN - 2cy over Holes Bay seen from Upton CP

Little Gull - 1 adult Christchurch Harbour from Fisherman's Bank, 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour from Fisherman's Bank, 1 Wick
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Litton Cheney
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Sandspit

Yesterday : 12 Arctic, 7 Pomarine and a Great Skua past Portland Bill.

Young Tawny Owls, Woodville © John Bishop

Ringed Plover, Hengistbury Sandspit © Clinton Whale

Sandwich Terns, Christchurch Harbour © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 1st May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 heard at Longham Lakes, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Garganey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Scaup - 3 over Christchurch Harbour (in group a with the Garganey)
Little Ringed Plover - 2 N of Swineham GPs
Sanderling - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Whimbrel - 10  Christchurch Harbour, 4 Swineham Point, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Swineham Point
Greenshank -  5 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs

Little Gull - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs, 1 briefly at Brownsea Lagoon
Great Northern Diver - 1 at entrance to Poole Harbour
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Hobby - 1 Swineham Point
Short-eared Owl - 1 near Martinstown
Garden Warbler - 1 Wick
Nightingale - 1 singing on Worget Heath

 

Black Swan, Longham Lakes © Mike Kirby

Reed Warbler, Longham Lakes © Mike Kirby