Friday 28th August 2026

Pintail - 3 Lytchett Fields, 2 Brand's Bay
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Grey Phalarope - 1 juvenile at Stanpit Bight (Christchurch Harbour) this evening
Sanderling - 3 Stanpit, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - c20 Lytchett Fields, 18 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 still at Stanpit Bight (Christchurch Harbour) but elusive
Caspian Gull - 1cy Abbotsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill (87+ yesterday)
Spoonbill - c20 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Swineham Point
Red Kite - 1 over Thorncombe Wood
Wryneck - 1 Portland in Obs Quarry and 1 also trapped & ringed in Crown Estates Field
Wood Warbler - 1 Charmouth briefly this morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields)
Pied Flycatcher - 10+ Charmouth this morning, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Studland village, 1 Brand's Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 30+ Christchurch Harbour, 10 over Greenland Farm, 1 Brand's Bay
Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields), 1 Canford School
Tree Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields), 1 over Hengistbury
Siskin - 4 or 5 by Rushy Pond at Thorncombe Wood

Franklin's Gull, Stanpit © Mike Gibbons