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



Wednesday 23rd July 2025

 Swift - 120 West Bay in the evening
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit
Knot - 1 Lodmoor
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril  Point Swanage
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still Lodmoor, 5 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB ( from Rock Lea viewpoint )
Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Fields
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Coombe Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wytch Heath, 3 by the Osprey viewing platform Poole Harbour
Crossbill - 6 Scotland Farm

Dartford Warbler Morden Bog  © Clive Hargrave

Dartford Warbler, Morden Bog  © Clive Hargrave





Tuesday 22nd July 2025

 Quail - 2 singing males Tarrant Rushton, 1 flushd by ponies on central marsh Christchurch
Whimbrel  - 2 Newton's Cove, 2 Stanpit Bight
Pectoral Sandpiper - from Beachdown Way Lodmoor until mid afternoon 
Wood Sandpiper 1 Post Box Pool Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 through Christchurch Harbour
Black Tern - 1 West Scape Lodmoor
Arctic Skua - 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 4 on lagoon Brownsea Island

Pectoral Sandpiper, Lodmoor © Kevin Guest
























Red Knot, Lodmoor © Garry Hayman

Black Tern with juvenile Common Tern  © Garry Hayman



Monday 21st July 2025

Balearic Shearwater - 113 Portland Bill
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Morden Bog
White-tailed Eagle - 2 in the Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 west with fish Lytchett Fields RSPB (un-ringed bird)
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - Lodmoor RSPB (from Southdown Ave)
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay (From RLVP)
Common Quail - 2 singing male Tarrant Rushton (old airfield)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wareham Common
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common

Sunday 20th July 2025

Common Scoter - 8 past Mudford Quay
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 3 pastMudeford Quay
Balearic Shearwater - 70 past Portland Bill, 4 west past Peveril Point
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Heron - juv Little Sea Studland NNR.
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Red Kite - 1 Middlebere
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Whimbrel - 3 Middlebere, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 29 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Middlebere
Greenshank - 9 Middlebere

Whimbrel - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


Saturday 19th July 2025

Common Quail - 1 male singing Tarrant Rushton
Great White Egret - 2 seen fly into Poole Hbr over Studland.
Purple Heron 1 still Little Sea Studland (View from Rees Cox Hide).
Osprey - 3 seen over the Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 sum/plum Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 4 Mother Siller's Channel Stanpit.

Friday 18th July 2025

Common Scoter - 24 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Purple Heron - 1 juv  Little Sea Studland
Spoonbill - 8 - Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Honey Buzzard - 1 SW over Lytchett Matravers
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Holes Bay (SW), 3 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Woodford East, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - 50 Portland Bill
Grasshopper Warbler - 27 - Lower Piddle Valley (ringed), 3 California Farm, Stanpit Marsh
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill
Crossbill - 8 over Careys Secret Garden

Corn Bunting Wyke Down © Nick Hull


Thursday 17th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 3 Peveril Point, 1 Woodsford
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Oakdale Noc-mig sound recording overnight 
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Spoonbill - 6 Middlebere Channel from Arne RSPB
Purple Heron - 1 Juv still at Little Sea Studland
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay 
White tailed Eagle - 1 Wytch Channel
Hobby - 1 nr Bridport
Grasshopper Warbler - 17 Ringed in the Lower Piddle Valley, 3 Durlston CP
Bearded Tit - 3 Swineham
Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 21 past Portland Bill

Grasshopper Warbler - Lower Piddle Valley
© Ed Betteridge






Wednesday 16th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 past Durlston CP
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Greenshank - 9 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Purple Heron - 1 Still at Little Sea Studland from Rees Cox Hide
Great White Egret - 1 Little Sea Studland, 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB
White - tailed Eagle - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wareham Channel form BoPH safari boat
Ring-necked Parakeet - on wires in Studland Village
Sedge Warbler - 1 Ringed at Carey Secret Gardens
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 ringed at Carey Secret Gardens
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP
Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Durlston CP

Wren - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury




Jay - West Moors © Roy Nicklin





Swallow - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury




Tuesday 15th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay 
Cory's Shearwater - 1 Off Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 5 of Durlston CP, 1 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Purple Heron - 1 juv still Little Sea Studland from Rees Cox hide
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay

Monday 14th July 2025

Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Brands Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Little Sea Studland, 2 Holes Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome Woodsford
Greenshank - 16 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 4 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay
Purple Heron - 1 Little Sea Studland
Great White Egret - 1 Little Sea Studland
Red Kite - 1 Sherborne
Redstart - 1 Stanpit Ash Tree Meadow

Sunday 13th July 2025

Quail - 2 Sth & W of St. Aldhelm's Car Park
Garganey - 1 still Radipole RSPB, viwed from platform nr. Tennis Courts
Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew - 18 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper  - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Gull - 3 1sr summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Meditteranean Gull - 150+ Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Marsh Tit - family at Garston Wood
Sand Martin - 114 through Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler - 1 Holton Heath
Crossbill - 4 over Christchurch Harbour, 3 east past Holton Heath


Comon Tern, Brownsea Island © Lesley Colquhuon-Graham


Bearded Reedling, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton


Kingfisher, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton

 

Saturday 12th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 9 Seymers Marsh, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 6 Middlebere
Little Gull - 1 2cy Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Morden Bog Lake
Cattle Egret - 1 sth over Wick
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1ad 1juv Morden Bog lake
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Thorncombe Wood

Cattle Egrets, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Friday 11th July 2025

Bar-headed Goose - 1 still Shipstal, probable escape
Oystercatcher - 137 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-tailed Godwit - 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 2 Wareham Forest
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Crouch Hill
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Brownsea Island
Crossbill - several small flocks Wareham Common & Carey's

 

Grey Wagtail, Maiden Newton © Phil Cheeseman


Hobby, Iwerne Minster © Robbie McBride


Linnet, Corfe Mullen © Martin Shaw

Thursday 10th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point, 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 40 + Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lytchett Fields
Little Gull - 1 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 9 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sand Martin - 450 south from Portland Bill
Swallow - 100 south from Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common
Serin - 1 north over Portland Bird Obs.

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Hansford



Little Egret, Poole Harbour © James Gurney



 

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Avocet - 6 Brownsea lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 2cy 1 Stanpit marsh
Storm Petrel - 7 trapped & ringed Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Purple Heron - 1 possible over Verne Common
Hobby - 1 from Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arboretum, Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Carey's Secret Garden

Nuthatch, Poole © Tony Furnell


Mute Swan, River Stour, Blandford © Tracy Hart




Tuesday 8th July 2025

Avocet - 5 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Portland Bill.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Holes Bay.
Kittiwake - 140 past Portland Bill
Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 80 Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Wareham Channel.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit.

Monday 7th July 2025

Swift - 360 Portland Bill.
Avocet - 3 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 13 Stanpit, 10 past Portland Bill, 5+ Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Bay, 4 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - a few past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick meadows.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Crossbill - 1 Portland (Culverwell).

Sunday 6th July 2025

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham.
Arctic Skua - 5 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 14 past Portland Bill.
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill.
Red Kite - 1 Charlton Marshall, 1 Garston Wood.
Hobby - 1 Iwerne Minster.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Garston Wood.
Marsh Tit - 1 Garston Wood.

Curlew, Stanpit © Clinton Whale




Saturday 5th July 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Swineham.
Little Ringed Plover - 2+ Swineham, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 2 Stanpit, 2 Swineham, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit.


Cattle Egret, Swineham © Garry Hayman















Cattle Egret, Swineham © Garry Hayman




Friday 4th July 2025

Common Sandpiper -  3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Arne RSPB
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
White Stork - 1 west along Piddle Valley this morning
Spoonbill - 4 still on Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret -  2+ Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Wick
Red Kite - 1 Carey Estate

Lapwing, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Jay, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

 

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Bar-headed Goose - 1 still at Shipstal Point,  Arne RSPB
Nightjar - 1 Warren Hill, Hengistbury Head churring around midday
Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 4 Wick
Osprey - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 2 over Woolsbarrow Hill Fort
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 at Swanage allotments
Firecrest - 1 Leeson Wood near Swanage
Crossbill - 2 Wareham Forest (east of Stroud Bridge CP)

Yesterday : 3 Balearic Shearwaters past Portland Bill 

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Quail - 1 singing west of car park at Cogden Beach
Cuckoo - 1 heard last night on Stoborough Heath
Little Ringed Plover -  2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper -  2 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 still  from Rock Lea Viewpoint at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult at Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pools
Spoonbill - 4 still at Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret -  2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne RSPB at Coombe Heath
Red Kite - 4 Bridport, 1 Toller Porcorum
Hobby - 1 Arne RSPB at Coombe Heath
Crossbill - 4 flew west over hillside behind Abbotsbury beach

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Silverlake
Greenshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 2 still  from Rock Lea Viewpoint at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 still at Brownsea Lagoon 
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Green Woodpeckers, yesterday at Hinton St Mary © John East


 

Monday 30th June 2025

Cuckoo - 1 over Forston
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverlake
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Gull - 1 still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover, Silverlake © Rebecca Porter

Little Ringed Plover, Silverlake © Rebecca Porter

 

Sunday 29th June 2025

Bar-headed Goose - 1 with Canada Geese at Arne RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black-tailed Godwit - 3 Brand's Bay, the first of the Autumn
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay
Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake
Red Kite - 1 over Corfe Mullen
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay near mouth of R. Sherford (female C6C and male 5H3)

Yesterday : a Roseate Tern was briefly at Ferrybridge

 

Peregrine chicks, Corfe Castle © Fiona Keeling

Female Peregrine feeding chick, Corfe Castle © Fiona Keeling