Saturday 11th October 2025

Eider - 10 past West Bay
Grey Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Ruff - 1 Hengistbury Head
Knot - 7 Middlebere
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank -  2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Hengistbury Head
Greenshank - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 2 Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - 2 past West Bay
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 75 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 29 left roost on Hengistbury Head
Wryneck - 1 in PBO quarry and nearby field, 1 again in private garden at Portesham
Redwing - 1 Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley, 1 Hengistbury Head
Sedge Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO
Firecrest - 2 Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley, 1 trapped & ringed at PBO
Marsh Tit - 17 Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley, 1 Culpeppers Dish
Bullfinch - 18 Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley
Redpoll - 235 over  Christchurch Harbour, 108+ Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley, 13 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Siskin - 515 over Christchurch Harbour,  63+ Chase Woods (Dorset part) near Sixpenny Handley
Crossbill - 72 over Christchurch Harbour, 30 Culpeppers Dish

Yesterday : 2 Common Cranes were still around Portland Harbour

Redpoll, Chase Woods © Tom Coldwell

Nuthatch, Chase Woods © Tom Coldwell


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Friday 10th October 2025

Dark-Bellied Brent - 28 Ferrybridge, 6 Wareham Channel
Eider - 11 Studland Bay
Common Scoter - 8 off Hengistbury Head
Red-necked Grebe - 1 West Bexington, 1 off Portland Bill
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Central Poole Harbour
Avocet - 200+ Middlebere
Grey Plover - 3 Brands Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge
Black-tailed Godwit - 255 Brands Bay, 250 Middlebere
Knot - 8 Middlebere
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 still West Scrape, Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Long Groyne, Hengistbury
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 5 still Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere
Black-throated Diver - 1 Weymouth Bay, off Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Poole Bay
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole bay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 sth over Portland Harbour
Cattle Egret - 20 still Holmebridge Fields
Great White Egret - 2 Middlebere, 1 Swineham
Red Kite - 1 Chesil Beach, nth from Moonfleet
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Arne RSPB
Ring Ouzel - 1 from Portland Bill Obs & into Quarry
Redwing - 3 over Carey's Secret Garden
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Marina Breakwater
Redpoll - c100 over Carey's Secret Garden, 63 over Hengistbury Head
Crossbill - 60 over Carey's Secret Garden, 50+ around Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest

Egyptian Goose, Longham Lakes © Allan Hansford

Canada Geese, Holes Bay © Allan Hansford


Rock Pipit, The Nothe, Weymouth © Phil Cheeseman

 

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Thursday 9th October 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 2 adults East Lake, Silverlake
Common Crane - 2 over Abbotsbury, over to Portland & back over Granby Ind. Est.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juv still West Scrape, Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Warmwell CB
Spotted Redshank - 5 still French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
Cattle Egret - 20 over Stoborough Causeway
Great White Egret - 2 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Middlebere
Kingfisher - 1 Warmwell CB
Merlin - 1f Ballard Down
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Skylark - 712 West Bay migration
Chiffchaff - c170 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Bushey nr. Corfe Castle
Wheatear - 2 Bushey nr. Corfe Castle, 1 Hengistbury Head
Brambling - 2 West Bay migration
Redpoll - c100 - over Carey's Secret Garden, 15 Hengistbury Head
Crossbill - c60 over Carey's Secret Garden

Yesterday: - 

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 past Portland Bill
Meadow Pipit - 895 West Bay migration
Redpoll - 32 West Bay migration 


Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Sharon Towning


Turnstone, The Nothe, Weymouth © Phil Cheeseman


Cirl Bunting, Cogden Beach © Vince Smith

 

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Wednesday 8th October 2025

Wigeon - 645 Holes Bay North
Pintail - 37 Holes Bay North
Avocet - 480 Middlebere, 200 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 20 Middlebere, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Ruff - 2 Stilt Pools, Swineham
Curlew Sandpiper - 7 still Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stilt Pools, Swineham, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 5 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields, 2 from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 1 Middlebere
Greenshank - 13 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields, 12 Wareham Channel, 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-Throated Diver - 1 into Poole Harbour from South Haven
Spoonbill - c100 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 15 nr. East Holme Floodplain
Great White Egret - 3 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 North Dorset
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 1 Holes Bay North, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Bearded Tit - 12 high over Radipole RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Littlesea, The Fleet
Goldcrest - c47 Hengistbury Head
Crossbill - 14 nth across Poole Harbour Mouth
Cirl Bunting - 1 Littlesea, The Fleet



Little Egret, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins


Red Kite, North Dorset © Harry McBride


Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

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Tuesday 7th October 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 2 Silverlake
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Lodmoor
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Golden Plover - c40 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay
Richard's Pipit - 1 west West Bay
Meadow Pipit - 20 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Whinchat - 2 Cogden Beach
Redwing - 9 Pentridge Down
Chiffchaff - 75 Hengistbury Hd, 40 Wick
Siskin - 16 Hengistbury Hd.
Redpoll - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Red Kite (with white tail) - Abbotsbury © Sue & Tony Wingett.





















White-tailed Eagle - Abbotsbury © Sue & Tony Wingett.


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Monday 6th October 2025

Whooper Swan - 6 past West Lexington & West Bay
Pink-footed Goose - 2 Silverlake
Goldeneye - 1 Longham Lakes
Goosander - 4 Silverlake
Cattle Egret - 16 Lytchett Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 94 Brownsea Island

Visual Migration
Goshawk - 1 West Bay
Skylark - 2256 West Bay
Meadow Pipit - 1124 West Bay, 8 Lower Piddle Valley
Grey Wagtail - 2 south Lytchett Bay, 1 Lower Piddle Valley
"alba" Wagtail - 230 West Bay
Blackcap - 19 Lower Piddle Valley
Chiffchaff - 50 Hengistbury Hd.
Chaffinch - 756 West Bay
Greenfinch - 39 West Bay
Siskin - 719 West Bay, 11 east Lytchett Bay
Linnet - 1325 West Bay
Redpoll - 82 West Bay, 3 Lower Piddle Valley
Crossbill - 49 West Bay
Reed Bunting - 17 West Bay, 3 Lower Piddle Valley



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Sunday 5th October 2025

Whooper Swan - 1 found with Mute Swans Christchurch Hbr.
Cattle Egret - 3 Carey
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stoborough Heath NNR, 1 Arne Moor (seen from Sleep Heath), 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 100+ Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 3 off Holton Heath in the Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 1+ Lodmoor RSPB
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew Sandpiper - 8 Middlebere, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Ruff - 2 Swineham Pt.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Bardolf Farm
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere
Caspian Gull - 1 1st/w Lodmoor RSPB
Crossbill - 30 Wareham Forest

Glossy Ibis - Lodmoor RSPB © Colin Chainey

Wheatear - Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale






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Saturday 4th October 2025

Sooty Shearwater - 1 south Chesil Cove
Cattle Egret - 31 with cattle off Carey Road
Spoonbill - 100+ Brownsea Lagoon
Glossy Ibis - 1 in off sea Medford Quay, 1 west p.m. Stanpit Marsh
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Curlew Sandpiper - 7 Middlebere, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Long-tailed Skua - 1 juv. west past Portland Bill
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad Holes Bay
House Martin - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 4 Crouch Hill Stanpit

Rock Pipit - Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale


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Friday 3rd October 2025

Red-breasted Merganser - 3 Ower Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Poole Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 8 at Middlebere this evening, 1 still on West Scrape at Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 5 Wareham Channel
Spotted Redshank - 2 in Wareham Channel
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 in Wareham Channel seen from BoPH Autumn Safari cruise this afternoon
Arctic Skua - 3 past Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Durlston CP
Glossy Ibis - 1 in Wareham Channel seen from BoPH Autumn Safari cruise
Spoonbill -  116 Brownsea Lagoon

Crossbills, yesterday in Wareham Forest © John Bishop

 

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Thursday 2nd October 2025

Pink-footed Goose - juvenile still on East Lake at Silverlake
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere, 2 on West Scrape at Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 on Postbox Pool at Lodmoor RSPB this morning
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill -  30 Brownsea Island this morning
Cattle Egret - 126 left the roost at Abbotsbury Swannery early morning
Red Kite - 1 Ashmore
Hobby - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Wryneck - 1 still in Long Field at Hengistbury Head
Redwing - 1 noc-migged over Oakwood (Poole) last night
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 still at Portland Bill

Stonechat, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale

 

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Wednesday 1st October 2025

Pink - footed Goose - 1 juv on East Lake Silverlake
Common Scoter - 2 Studland Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Wareham Channel
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 6 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB west scrape
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB 
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB Postbox Pool
Spoonbill 115 still on Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Middlebere
Cattle egret - 1 Wick Water Meadows Christchurch
Great White Egret, 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere, 1 over Ham Common
Wryneck - 1 West Cliff end of Barleycrates Portland, 1 Long Field Hengisbury Head, 1 in private garden Portesham
Merlin - 1 Harland Moor
Hobby - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Arne Moor, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bearded Tit - 10 Radipole RSPB, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Whinchat - 1 Durlston CP
Wheatear - 2 Greenlands Farm Studland, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Highcliffe Beach, 1 Peveril Point
Tree Pipit - 2 Middlebere
Hawfinch - 1 long Meadow Durlston CP
Lesser Redpoll - 20 Hengisbury Head, 5 Greenlands Farm
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP

Wheatear - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale




Pink footed Goose - Silverlake © Paul Harris




Wryneck - Private Garden Portesham
©  Angela Passells



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