Sunday 26th July 2026

Whimbrel - 6 Brands bay
Yellow-Legged Gull - 3 Stilt Pools Swineham
Cattle Egret - 28 Swineham meadows with cattle
Hobby - 1 Throop
Yellow wagtail - 1 Swineham

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Saturday 25th July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Whimbrel - 2 Swineham, 2 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 3 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 5 Summer Plumaged Swineham
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Yellow Wagtail - 2 California Farm Purbeck, 2 Swineham

Pergrine Bournemouth Town Centre © David Wareham

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Friday 24th July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Quail - 1 Singing male Monkton Up Wimborne
Spotted Redshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere, 14 Brownsea Lagoon
Great white Egret - 1 Middlebere
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelms Head

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Thursday 23rd July 2026

Quail - 1 singing this evening above Compton Valance
Whimbrel - 6 Holes Bay, 2 Middlebere
Greenshank - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Common Sandpiper -  10+ Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Moonfleet
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Spoonbill -  7 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Middlebere

Yesterday : 3 Sanderlings at Ferrybridge

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Wednesday 22nd July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 2 near Woodsford Castle
Quail - 1 singing at Cheselbourne
Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holes Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper -  3 Brownsea Lagoon, 5 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields
Puffin - successful breeding confirmed with a fledgling seen at Dancing Ledge  
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour (Holloway's Dock)
Cattle Egret - 4 Hengistbury
Nightjar - 4 at Hardy Monument last night
Hobby - 1 Carey Estate
Redstart - 1 Stanpit

Sparrowhawk, Cheselbourne © Vaughan Ashby

 

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Tuesday 21st July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham.
Little Ringed Plover - 9 Swineham, 2 Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Silverlake, 2 Puddletown WMs.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.
Manx Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Wick Fields.
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 over Bere Regis.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Hobby - 1 Poole Harbour.
Tree Pipit - 11 Wild Woodbury.
Yellow Wagtail - 4 Swineham, 2 Bere Regis cress beds, 1+ Portland Bill, 1+ Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wild Woodbury.
Grasshopper Warbler - 26 Piddle Valley RS, 16 Lytchett Bay RS, 1 Durlston CP, 1+ Portland Bill.
Garden Warbler - 1 Portland Bill RS.
Firecrest - 2 Wild Woodbury.
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Monday 20th July 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Bay, 1 Woodsford.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Woodsford.
Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 off West Bexington.
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Island, 2 Lodmoor.
Osprey - at least 6, including 3 local fledglings, in Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne.
Grasshopper Warbler - 38 Piddle Valley ringing station.
Garden Warbler - 3 Piddle Valley ringing station.
Crossbill - 2 over Lytchett Bay.
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Sunday 19th July 2026

Teal - 77 Brands Bay, 29 Holes Bay.
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Swineham.
Common Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Bay.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay,
Greenshank - 10 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay.
Common Tern - 2 Longham Lakes.
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 13 Swineham.
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Red Kite - 2 over Wareham Common.
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Hatch Pond.
Yellow Wagtail - 6 Swineham.
Grasshopper Warbler - 45 Piddle Valley ringing station, 2 Durlston CP.
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Saturday 18th July 2026

Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Bay, 6 Brownsea Island, 2+ Stanpit.
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge.
Cattle Egret - 11 Christchurch Hbr.
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island.
Yellow Wagtail - 3 over Christchurch Hbr.
Grasshopper Warbler - 36 Piddle Valley ringing station, 1 Stanpit.
Garden Warbler - 3 Piddle Valley ringing station.

Late news: Caspian Tern N over Abbotsbury Swannery on 15th Jul.
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Friday 17th July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham tidal flap
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Standpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 6 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields. 1 Lodmoor
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Peaky Meade Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 19 Swineham Frome Meadows, 11 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Swineham Curlews Pool
White tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel 
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Obs, 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 7 Swineham 4 at Stilt Pool and 3 at the point, 3 over Stanpit Marsh, 2 over Arne Moor, 1 Lodmoor

Yesterday: Lower piddle Valley Ringing Station (private) - 53 Sedge Warbler, 22 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Garden Warbler.

Barnacle Goose - Swineham ©  Garry Hayman





Yellow Wagtail - Swineham © Garry Hayman


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Thursday 16th July 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea viewpoint
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juv Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 2 over Wareham town centre
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow wagtail - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great Spotted Woodpecker
Private Garden Wareham © Clive Hargrave


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Wednesday 15th July 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Scotland Farm Hartland Moor, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 10 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Tern - 1 Flew north over Abbottsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 13 ringed at Carey secret Garden, 2 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 1 Hengisbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 5 Hegisbury Head, 1 Durlston CP

Black-tailed Godwit - Middlebere © Garry Hayman




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Tuesday 14th July 2026

Quail  -  2 West Compton, 1 Wareham Common
Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside, 1 over Norden
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 1 Standpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge Bay
Redstart - 1 juv Wick fields Christchurch

Yesterday: White-crowned Sparrow - an unconfirmed report of one at Hengisbury Head, as per bird sightings apps.

Mistle Thrush - Middlebere © Garry Hayman





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Monday 13th July 2026

Mandarin - 1 fem Hatch Pond Poole
Balearic Shearwater - 8 off Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Hbr
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Bight
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Woodsford  
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields, 1 Woodsford 













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Sunday 12th July 2026

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Hbr (summering bird)
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel 
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Hbr (Ashtray Meadow)
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Hbr (Mother Siller's Channel)
Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Hbr (Grimmery Bank - Parky Meade)






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Saturday 11th July 2026

Quail - 1 calling Down Farm
Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh (at the Wooden Bridge)
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - Christchurch Hbr (Holloways Dock), 1 Langton Herring
Roseate Tern - 1 adult Abbotsbury Swannery
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit March (Crouch Hill)
Serin - Portland Bill Obs.
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Friday 10th July 2026

Mandarin - 1 female Hatch Pond Poole.
Cattle Egret - Christchurch Hbr.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Serin - 1 male Portland Bill Obs but mobile.

Late News from Yesterday
Common Quail - 1 over Lytchett Bay (01:58hrs on NocMig recording)

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Thursday 9th July 2026

Little Ringed Plover - juvenile on the 'Scarlet Darter' pond Silverlake 
Serin - male again in Portland Bird Observatory garden
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Wednesday 8th July 2026

 Quail - 1 east cliffs Portland
Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 1 still at Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 1 still from Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Lytchett Fields
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Ferrybridge in he evening
Balearic Shearwater - at lest 10 still off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Common
Serin - 1 in Portland Bird Observatory garden
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Tuesday 7th July 2026

Quail - 2 at Knowlton
Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 1 still at Ferrybridge 
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Balearic Shearwater - 7 still off Portland Bill
Black Tern - 1 at Ashtree Meadows Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere from Avocet Hide, 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 Swineham GPs
White-tailed Eagle G463 - active in Wareham Channel all morning
Hobby - 1 over Swineham GP
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Monday 6th July 2026

 Avocet - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 1 still Chesil Centre Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 seen from Crouch Hill Christchurch
Black-tailed Godwit - c.20 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank - 2 from Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 over Lytchett Matravers, 1 Longham Lakes
Bee-eater - 1 heard near Weston Road Portland
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Sunday 5th July 2026

Whimbrel - 1-2 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holme Lane gravel pit.
Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 over Wimborne.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Canford Heath, 1 Piddle Valley ringing station.

Spotted Flycatcher, Canford Heath © Janet Panter.

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Saturday 4th July 2026

Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 10 Brownsea Island north shore.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wick.
Common Tern - 2 Longham Lakes.
Purple Heron - 1 Arne (has been present for about a fortnight).
Cattle Egret - 4 Middlebere.
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Middlebere.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 E over Christchurch, 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor.
Honey Buzzard - 1 Organford.
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Golden Oriole - 1 heard but not seen Lytchett Bay (footpath 12) this morning.
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Friday 3rd July 2026

Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Wareham Channel.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Woodsford.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Woodsford, 2 Stanpit.
Storm Petrel - 3+ Portland Bill Obs overnight.
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 fishing off Shipstal.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Wareham Channel.
Honey Buzzard - 1 N over Abbotsbury Swannery.
Starling - 1 all-white (leucistic) bird Ferndown.
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Thursday 2nd July 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wick
Red Kite - 2 near Bridport at midday, 1 over Bakers Arms
Hobby - 2 Carey Estate,  1 Middlebere
Crossbill - 2 over Carey Estate

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Wednesday 1st July 2026

Avocet - a pair with 2 newly hatched young on Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper -  2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 still in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Island
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB (now confirmed as breeding here for the first time in Dorset since 1883)
Cattle Egret - 1+ Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate

Yesterday: 43 Balearic Shearwater off Portland Bill 

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Tuesday 30th June 2026

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Arctic Skua - 2 over Chesil Beach near Rodden Hive
Spoonbill - 7 Arne RSPB at Shipstal Point 
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Poole Harbour
Crossbill - 2 over Hengistbury Head

Yesterday evening: 
Quail - 1 at Wimborne St Giles, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Nightjar - 14 Puddletown Forest along Roman Road, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield from fields near the Canadian Memorial Entrance

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Monday 29th June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields in breeding plumage
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Cattle Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : 48 Balearic Shearwater past Portland Bill

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Sunday 28th June 2026

Quail - 1 Singing East of Harfoot Lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Singing Cheselborne Waterside Farm, 1 possibly 2 singing Tarrant Rushton
Spotted Redshank - 1 Adult summer plumage Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford, 6 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 Off Chesil Beach viewed from Bridging Camp
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Off Portland Bill early morning
Spoonbill - 2 still Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 Woodsford
Hobby - 1 Woodsford
Serin - 1 Flew over Observatory garden Portland

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Saturday 27th June 2026

Quail - 1 Calling East of Harfoot lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Calling South of track at Wyke Down
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 10 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Summer plumaged adult Middlebere
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 flew over Swannery car park
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere
Serin - male flew over Bird Observatory into beach hut fields

Spotted Redshank, Middlebere © Gary Hayman

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Friday 26th June 2026

Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Past Portland bill

Black Tern Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

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Thursday 25th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Dipper - 2 on R Lim in Lyme Regis

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Wednesday 24th June 2026

Little Tern-  5 on Blackberry Point in Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Channel
Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Dipper - 1 on R Lim in Lyme Regis
Serin - Male in PBO garden this morning 

Yesterday : 28 Balearic Shearwaters and a Whimbrel at Portland Bill

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Tuesday 23rd June 2026

Common Scoter -1 off Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Quail - 1 singing at Waterside Farm, Cheselbourne
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 at Wick
Hobby - 1 Upton CP

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Monday 22nd June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 1 Parky Meade Rail Christchurch Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 5000+ mostly east off Portland Bill, 2000 + off West Bexington, 200 off Ferrybidge
Balearic Shearwater - 70  mostly going east off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 7 Wareham Common

Late News: Black Kite - 1 Blandford St Mary's on Friday 19th June

Starling - Bestwalls Meadows Swineham 
© GarryHayman


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Sunday 21st June 2026

Quail - 1 possibly 2 at West Compton
Mandrain Duck - 13 over Shillingstone Recreation Ground
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - Wick Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 
Red Kite - 1 Over Bennetts Water Gardens, 1 over Coburg Rd Dorchester
Red backed Shrike - 1 female Swineham Gravel Pit initially seen from BoPH bird boat

Red backed Shrike - Swineham GP
© Trevor Warwick



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Saturday 20th June 2026

Quail - 2 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Cheselbourne
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge 
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Bay and then at the back of Sherford Pools, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Hoopoe - 1 In private garden Swanage

Yesterday: 100 Manx Shearwater, 5 Balearic Shearwater and 2 Arctic Skua off Portland Bill

Nightjar - Tadnoll & Winfrith NR DWT
© Steve Carey



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Friday 19th June 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton heard calling
Cuckoo - 1 Arne Moor
Whimbrel - 1 Fisherman's Bank Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Swineham Point
Storm Petrel - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bill overnight
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Dorset side of River Avon  by the causeway
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Corfe Mullen
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Over Combe Heath seen from Middlebere NT Hide

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery in the afternoon

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Thursday 18th June 2026

 Barnacle Goose - 3 Woodsford Castle
Quail - 1 heard Tarrant Rushton airfield
Black -tailed Godwit - 10 Christchurch Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 briefly Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour
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Wednesday 17th June 2026

 Quail - 1 again at north west end of Tarrant Rushton airfield
Avocet - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Shipstal Point RSPB Arne
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Marsh Harrier - 3 Swineham
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel and female G466 gave flight views to the Summer Safari Cruise
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Tuesday 16th June 2026

 Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 1 Sturminster Marshall Lake
Spoonbill - 2 still at Lodmoor, 1 Brownsea Island
Little Egret - 37 pre-roost Holes Bay area
Cattle Egret - 4 between Holmebridge and Wareham
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 2nd cal Holmebridge
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Monday 15th June 2026

Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 West Compton
Cuckoo - 1 Canford Heath
Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island Lagoon
 Balearic Shearwater - 3 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 3 Lodmmor, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Bittern - seen again at Lodmoor
Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield
White-tailed Eagle - 1 adult and 1 2nd cal year over Corfe and Middlebere
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Sunday 14th June 2026

Quail - 1 West Compton, 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 Corfe Mullen, 1 over Dorchester bypass
Osprey - 2 at Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
White Stork - 1 flying over Wimborne 

Bittern - Lodmoor RSPB © Steven Carey




















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Saturday 13th June 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 28 Portland Bill
European Storm Petrel - past Portland Bill
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 
Red Kite - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Fields, 1, Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath
Hobby - 1 Blacknor, Portland.
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Blyth's Reed Warbler - 1Portland Bill (Probable trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field)
Serin - 1 Portland Bill

Common Tern - Brownsea Lagoon © Nick Hull


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Friday 12th June 2026


Balearic Shearwater - 35 past Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Fields
Hobby over Christchurch Hbr.
Arctic Skua - 1 from Medford Quay
Common Tern 3 Medford Quay
Sandwich Tern - 85 Mudeford Quay
Serin - Portland Bill flew over the Obs garden

Puffin - off Dancing Ledge © Nick Hull


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Thursday 11th June 2026

Manx Shearwater - 69 off Durlston CP. 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Balearic Shearwater - 21 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 off Durlston CP.
Kittiwake - 11 Durlston CP, 1 off Hengistbury Hd.
Little Tern - 1 off Hengistbury Hd.
Sandwich Tern - 53 Holloways Dock Christchurch Hbr.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill - 1 female Ops Garden

Gadwall - Brownsea Island © Nick Hull


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Wednesday 10th June 2026

Spoonbill - 1 Flew over Lytchett Bay
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
European Serin - 1 one flew over Portland Bird Observatory

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Tuesday 9th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. 
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Balearic Shearwater - 4 off Portland Bill from East
RED BACKED SHRIKE - 1 Male  east of farm at c 50.6938, -2.0376; use RSPB car park
European Serin - 1 Calling in flight near Portland Bill

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Monday 8th June 2026

Red Breasted Merganser - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. Seen and photographed early morning in flight around West end of Southdown Avenue

Bittern. Lodmoor © David Turner

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Sunday 7th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor
Cuckoo - 3 Morden Bog
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Storm Petrol - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c400 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - c70 past Portland Bill from East
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog
Wheatear - 1 male Eggarden Hill

Marsh Tit Silverlake © Rich Stephenson


Bittern. Lodmoor © Phil Cheesman

Sand Martin. Silverlake © Rich Stephenson













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Saturday 6th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 still at Wick
Sanderling - c6 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit, 2 Lodmoor beach
Whimbrel - 3 left Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
European Storm-petrel - 2 west past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP in full summer plumage
Little Tern-  5 Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 20 Portland Bill this morning, 18 Durlston CP this morning, 1 flew out of Poole Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1225 past Durlston CP, 54 Hengistbury Head, 7 Branksome Chine, 2 Mudeford Quay
Puffin - 1 past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour

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Friday 5th June 2026

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 60+ off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c600 off Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 west past Portland Bill 
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Nightjar - 1 flying along Middlebere track this morning
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wick by the Wooden Bridge
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Hambledon Hill

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Thursday 4th June 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Wick
Turtle Dove - 1 still in PBO garden
Great Skua - 1 again off Hengistbury Head
European Storm-petrel - 3 off Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Hengistbury Head in full summer plumage
Little Tern- 1 Hengistbury Head
Roseate Tern - 1 past Durlston CP
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 off Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 9 Portland Bill, 2 Durlston CP
Manx Shearwater - 6 off Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Fields
Bee-eater - 5 heard over Southwell on Portland this morning, heading south
Hobby - 1 Shillingstone

Yesterday : 1 Sooty Shearwater past Portland Bill 

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Wednesday 3rd June 2026

Cuckoo - 1 heard at Child Okeford
Turtle Dove - 1 still in PBO garden
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
European Storm-petrel - 4 off Hengistbury Head, 1+ from Mudeford Quay
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Branksome Chine in full summer plumage
Little Tern- 5+ Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 5+ Portland Bill, 1 past Mudeford Quay, 1 west past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Hobby - 1 Hambledon Hill

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Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill Obs.
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor.
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Tern - 4 Mudeford Quay, 1 past Portland Bill.
Common Tern - 6 Hengistbury Head.
Manx Shearwater - c1000 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel & Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Bee-eater - 5 over Portland Bill Obs.
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Monday 1st June 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Little Tern - 1 W past Mudeford Quay.
Common Tern - 3 W past Mudeford Quay.
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island.
Bee-eater - 5-6 high over Portland.
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Sunday 31st May 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Roseate Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Quail - 2 calling N of Moor Crichel.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island, 2 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2-3 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Swineham.
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Saturday 30th May 2026

Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Holton Heath, 1 Wick.
Puffin - 3+ off Purbeck.
Great White Egret - 2 Arne Moors, 1 Silverlake.
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Night Heron - 1 Studland Little Sea. View from the Rees Cox hide, north of Knoll Beach.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 5+ Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 7 Studland, 1 Bridport.
Honey Buzzard - 1 north over Poole.
Hobby - 2 Morden Bog.
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Friday 29th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Middlebere NT Hide
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Caspian Gull - 1 Possible from Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay
Little Tern - 2 Wareham Channel
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Storm Petrel - 2 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland
Balearic Shearwater - 1 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland, 1 East off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Osprey - 4 Middlebere Channel, 2 in off the sea Kimmeridge
Red Kite - 9 over Poole Harbour entrance, 7 Spyway, 6 over Brownsea Laggon, 5 Kimmeridge Bay
White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge Bay
Melodious warbler - 1 trapped and ringed Cluverwell Portland
Marsh Tit - 1 Garston Wood
Tree Sparrow - 1 trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field Portland Bill Obs

Marsh Tit - Garston wood ©  Daniel Law



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Thursday 28th May 2026

Mandarin Duck - River Allen Wimborne Minster
Cuckoo - 1 Morden BogWareham Forest  
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Obs garden still
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 Flew past Portland Bill
Balearic shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill, 1 East past Chesil Beach seen from Camp rd
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Poole Canford Heath
Red Kite - 1 Ailwood Down
White tailed Eagle- 1 ailwood Down
Bee -eater - 1 Heard over Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wareham Forest Morden Bog
Dipper - 2 Beaminster
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh

Mandarin Duck - Wimborne Minster
© Peter Calladine


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Wednesday 27th May 2026

Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill Obs garden
Red breasted Merganser - 1 male Brownsea island Lagoon DWT
Whimbrel  - 1 over a private garden towards Holes Bay 
Black Tern - 1 flew east past Portland Bill
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour 2 yr male 5R0 and Scottish female 6J8
White tailed Eagle - male G625 at Blackberry Point Christchurch Harbour
Melodious Warbler - 1 possible male at Ferndown Common

Turtle Dove - Portland Bill Obs © Steve Carey


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Tuesday 26th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Wick Christcurch Harbour
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Obs garden
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 briefly at Stanpit Marsh
White Stork - 1 Low over Hammond / Okeford (New Cross Gate)
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Bee-eater - 18 over Rock Lea Viewpoint Lytchett Bay
Red footed Falcon - 1 Stanpit Marsh and flew up the valley
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Reed Warbler - Swineham  © Garry Hayman


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Monday 25th May 2026

Hobby - Wareham Forest
Black Tern - 5 past Portland Bill
Bee-eater - 10 over Parkstone heading NW
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Dorchester by River Frome
Crossbill - 2 Wareham Forest

Spotted Flycatcher - Dorchester © Gillian Membury

Greylag Geese - Poole Park © Clinton Whale



























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Sunday 24th May 2026

Great White Egret - 2 Two Rivers Walk Wareham
Red Kite - 3 Holt Heath, 1 Corfe Mullen
Goshawk- 1 Holt Heath
Red-footed Falcon - 1 male Holt Heath a.m. 
Hobby - 1 Shillingstone
Cuckoo - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

 
Spotted Flycatcher - Holt Heath © Sam Caswell



Great White Egret - Wareham © Garry Hayman
















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Saturday 23rd May 2026

Barnacle Geese - 2 over Christchurch Hbr.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Brand's Bay
Garganey - 1 Knighton Heath GP
Eider - 4 past Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 3 past Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 350 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere
Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Hbr, 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Sanderling - 27 Ferrybridge
Pomarine Skua - 3 west off Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 5 Wareham Forest
Red-footed Falcon - 1 male Holt Heath
Hobby - 3 Wareham Forest, 1 over Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill, 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Redstart - 1 Wareham Forest

Red-footed Falcon - Holt Heath with Emperor Moth © Aidan Brown

























Redstart Wareham Forest © Garry Hayman























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Friday 22nd May 2026

Mandarin - duck with 4 duckling River Allen Wimborne.
Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill
Cattle Egret 2 Charminster Water Meadows
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lytchett Fields
Eurasian Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Woodcock - 1 West Moors, 1 Sugarhill
Red-footed Falcon - 1 male still on northside of Holt Heath. Please keep to main tracks and paths do not roam into the heathland and bogs)
Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay
Spotted Flycatcher - Bloxworth


 
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Thursday 21st May 2026

 Cuckoo - 1 Frome Woodsford, 1 Lower Bockhampton, 1 Affpuddle Woods
Turtle Dove - 3 Top fields Portland Bill
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 8 Portland Bill, 36 Christchurch Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 flew over Arne RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sooty Shearwater - 1 lingering off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Wareham channel
Red Kite - 1 Limekiln Farm Sherborne
Red-footed Falcon - male still north end of Holt Heath 
1 probable male flew north west over gully Durlston CP
Hobby - 1 Radipole, 1 Whitfield
Woodchat Shrike - 1 New Ground Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Crouch Hill Christchurch
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlson CP

Sedge Warbler, River Frome Dorchester © Alan Membury

Hobby, River Frome Dorchester ©  Alan Membury



Cirl Bunting Durlston CP  ©  Rebecca Porter



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Wednesday 20th May 2026

 Mandarin - female with one duckling on the River Allen, Wimborne
Black Tern - 4 east Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 4 feeding, 3 flew east Christchurch Harbour
Great Skua - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red-throated Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Chesil Beach, 1 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Osprey - 1 briefly over Lodmoor, 5H6 visited Poole Harbour nest platform
Red-footed Falcon - 1 north end of Holt Heath NR
Hobby - 1east of Lower Bockhampton
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Tuesday 19th May 2026

 Cuckoo - 1 Bardolf Farm
Avocet - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 4 offshore at Hengistbury Head, 1 off Chesil Beach
Eastern Common Tern - possible again at Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Tern - 106 sitting Brownsea Island
Sandwich Tern - 81 sitting Brownsea Island
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill, 2 past Mudeford Quay briefly this evening
Great Skua - 1 past Mudeford Quay
Desertas-type Petrel - 1 flew east past Portland Bill, mid distance
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Durlston
Osprey - 1 over Lodmoor
Hobby - 1 over Litton Cheney
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Bardolf Farm
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Monday 18th May 2026

Eastern Common Tern - possible at south end of west scrape Lodmoor
Arctic Skua - 1 pale form over Mudeford Quay
Pomarine Skua - 1 offshore Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - single close to Mudeford Quay 17:45
Honey Buzzard - 1 flew north across Poole Harbour
Red-footed Falcon - 1 over Holt Heath before flying north west

Yesterday: Quail singing St Aldhelm's Head

Grey Partridge, Dorchester  © Simon


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Sunday 17th May 2026

Quail - 1 singing East of Winterborne Clenston
Cuckoo - 3 Blackheath Wareham Forest, 3 Lower Allen Valley
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 1 flew up the Piddle Valley early morning
Red Kite - 9 Lower Allen Valley

Spoonbill, Lodmoor © Steve Carey


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Saturday 16th May 2026

Quail - 1 Calling sporadically early this morning, near St Aldhelms Head
Cuckoo - 1 Longham lakes
Arctic Skua - 1 East off Chesil Beach viewed from Camp Road
White Stork - 1 River Frome East of Wool
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Swineham
Whinchat - 1 Male by Bridging Camp Chickerall.

Cuckoo, Morden Bog © R. Stephenson
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Friday 15th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Bonapartes Gull - 1 1st Summer bird Abbotsbury Swannery Embankment
Cattle Egret - 2 Flew down Lorton Valley
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Morden Bog

Cuckoo, Morden Bog © Phil Cheesman


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Thursday 14th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Roseate Tern - 4 Brownsea Lagoon with 1 seen early evening fishing at the harbour entrance, South side.
Bonapartes Gull - 1 1st Summer bird Abbotsbury Swannery Embankment
White Stork - 1 Cowards Marsh
Cattle Egret - 4 Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Avon Heath Country Park
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog

Goldcrest © John Bishop

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Wednesday 13th May 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 Mudeford/Hengistbury
Sanderling - 16 Mudeford/Hengistbury, 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Little Tern- 8 Hengistbury Head
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery on embayment this evening
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 14 past Hengistbury this morning, 118 Mudeford Quay this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wick

Marsh Harrier, Middlebere © Alan Membury

Lapwing, Middlebere © Alan Membury

Osprey, Middlebere © Alan Membury

 

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Tuesday 12th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
Whimbrel - 2 Hengistbury
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Osprey -1 Christchurch Harbour
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - probable 1st summer female, trapped & ringed at PBO

Swallow, Studland © Clinton Whale

 

 

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Monday 11th May 2026

Cuckoo -  1 Hyde Bog, 1 Longham Lakes
Whimbrel - 6 Frome Valley, 5 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay NW
Sanderling - 6 Knoll Beach (Studland), 3 Stanpit Marsh
White Stork - 1 over Wareham
Night-heron - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, flew NW towards Radipole this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Stoborough (Bog Lane)
Honey-buzzard - 1 east over Stanpit Marsh
Osprey 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Slepe Heath, 1 Longham Lakes
Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadows (Christchurch Harbour)

Yesterday : a Roseate Tern past Portland Bill 

Sanderling, Knoll Beach © Clinton Whale

 

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Sunday 10th May 2026

Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy again at Lynch Cove (The Fleet)
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill is the first of the year
White Stork  - 1 south east over Shillingstone around midday, 1 Wareham, flew down the Piddle Valley.
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Swineham GPs this morning.
Red Kite - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 over Hengistbury Head

Sandwich Tern, off Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale

 

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