Saturday 18th April 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Dorchester/Charminster WMs
Mandarin Duck - 1 male over East Stoke
Cuckoo - 2 heard at Middlebere, 1 heard Wareham Forest, 1 heard near East Stoke, 1 Arne RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 again on Brownsea Lagoon this morning
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields
Hobby - 1 over a Corfe Mullen garden this evening at 6pm
Hoopoe - 1 in a Bournemouth private garden
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 seen briefly this morning between Old Harry and Ballard Down but not since
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 1 St Aldhelm's Head 
Wood Warbler  - male singing in private wood east of Sherborne
Firecrest - 5 singing on Holton Heath
Ring Ouzel - 1 Dulston CP (west end)
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female at Pokesdown Railway Station, 1 Durlston CP (west end of Warren)
Redstart - 2 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP,  2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Old Harry, 1 St Aldhelm's Head  
Whinchat - 2 Ballard Down, 1 
Christchurch Harbour
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Christchurch Harbour, 1 St Aldhelm's Head 
Tree Pipit - 8 Wareham Forest south of Morden Bog, 3 Holton Heath, 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Liitlesea (The Fleet)

Sandwich Terns, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale