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

 

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Goosander - 1 Smuggler's Ditch, Stanpit
Turnstone - 5 Mudeford Sandspit
Common Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still nr. top of Southdown Way, 1 seen in front of viewing shelter, Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 nr. Wareham Causeway
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere
Black Kite - 1 SW over Portland Bill Observatory
Chough - 1 over Waterworks Quarry, Southwell, then over Tout Quarry
Pied Flycatcher - 1 in woods nr. Knoll Beach Car Park
Redstart - 1 juv Coombe Heath
Wheatear - 2 on Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 4 over Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Storm Petrel - 2 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 7 past Portland Bill

Wodd Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Spotted Flycatcher, Kingston Lacy © Ann Baldwin

Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Mark Churchill

Tuesday 29th July 2025

Common Scoter - 1 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Goosander - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 15 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper -  4 Silverlake, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 over Upwey
Greenshank -21 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 12 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 2 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Spoonbill - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Chough - 1 again near Thorncombe Beacon on coastal path (SY437913)

Chough, Thorncombe Beacon © Malcolm Dowty

 

Monday 28th July 2025

Little Ringed Plover -  1 Holloway's Dock (Christchurch Harbour)
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on pool at end of Southdown Avenue
Common Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit, 1 Holloway's Dock (Christchurch Harbour)
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 4 Brand's Bay, 4 Stanpit, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 2 (2cy) Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 10 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Rodden Hive
Willow Warbler - 57 Stanpit area
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 2 Arne RSPB
Crossbill - 2 over Swanage

Recently : A CHOUGH seen at Burton Bradstock on Saturday and another, or perhaps same bird, was seen further west along the coast between Thorncombe Beacon and Seatown yesterday morning (Sunday).

Juvenile Stonechat, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

 

Sunday 27th July 2025

 Garganey - drake eclipse still Lodmoor

Little Ringed Plover - 4 Silverlake (2 adult 2 Juvenile)

Whimbrel - 1 Shipstal Point, 5 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 still Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor, 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - juvenile Silverlake

Roseate Tern - 1 briefly from viewing shelter Lodmoor

Arctic Skua - 1 dark phase Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 9 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB

Yesterday - 1 Little Stint Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper, Lodmoor ©  Garry Hayman

Great White Egret, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Lesser Whitethroat, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Eclipse drake  Garganey, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Water Rail, Sunnyside Farm  © Phil Bentley

Saturday 26th July 2025

Garganey - drake eclipse still Lodmoor

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor

Ruff - 1 Lodmoor

Common Sandpiper - c.10 Lodmoor

 Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank 1 Lodmoor, 17 Brownsea Lagoon

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Purple Heron - juvenile still at Littlesea Studland, 1 Furzey Island

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor

Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Yesterday: Caspian Tern Longham Lakes

Pied Flycatcher, St Aldhelm's Head  © Gary Hayman

Juvenile Cuckoo, Gore Heath (July 25th ) © Elaine Geall & Steve Willis

Caspian Tern (above and below, July 25th ) Longham Lakes © Sharon Towring

Friday 25th July 2025

Garganey - eclipse drake still Lodmoor

Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit

Black-tailed Godwit - 211 Holes Bay

Turnstone - 3 Lodmoor

 Green Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Greenshank - 10 Holes Bay, 2 Stanpit

Little Tern - 3 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor

Curlew, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Little Tern, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Turnstone, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Thursday 24th July 2025

Garganey - eclipsed drake Lodmoor

Nightjar - 1 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay, 3 Brands Bay

Curlew - 18 Holes Bay, 59 Brands Bay

Back-tailed Godwit - 9 Holes Bay, 5 Lodmoor, 51 Brands Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Redshank - 1 Silverlake, 97 Holes Bay, 34 Brands Bay, 81 Lytchett Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 still Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay

Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Bay

Little Tern - 1 west scrape Lodmoor

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 west lake Silverlake

Little Egret - 30 Holes Bay, 20 Swineham gravel pits

 Red Kite - 1 over Maiden Castle

Bee-eater - 1 heard at Culverwell Portland

Sedge Warbler - 120 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Grasshopper Warbler - 19 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed Portland Bird Observatory

Dartford Warbler, near Dancing Ledge,   © Bob Hammond

Collared Dove, Lodmoor  © Mary Stevens

Little Tern, Lodmoor  © Mary Stevens

Egyptian Goose, Silverlake  © Derek Fowler