Wednesday 15th April 2026

 Eider - female off Mudeford Quay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peverill Point Swanage
Bonaparte's Gull - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove (DT4 9HE), 1 Lower Piddle valley
Forster's Tern - adult on Brownsea Island Lagoon until 14:15
Red throated Diver - 2 off Hengistbury
Great Northern Diver - 1 from Hengistbury
White Stork - 1 in field near Holdenhurst village, Throop
Bittern - 1 booming north end of Lodmoor
Cattle Egret - 11 Lodmoor
Red Kite - 2 Lower Piddle valley
White-tailed Eagle - 1 flew east down River Frome water meadows east of Lower Bockhampton, 1 Lower Piddle Valley
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland
Red-spotted Bluethroat - male still along path east end of gravel pit at Swineham GPs c50.6925,-2.0839

Yesterday: Turtle Dove flew over Middlebere


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