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

 

Saturday 28th June 2025

Common Sandpiper - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Spotted Redshank - 2 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 4 Portland Bill 
Cattle Egret - 4 west over Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay (female C6C, hatched Lancs in 2022 and male 5H3, hatched at Carey Estate in 2023)
 
Yesterday : 3 Balearic Shearwaters and a Sooty Shearwater at Portland Bill
 
 
Spotted Redshank, Lytchett Fields RSPB © Garry Hayman

Friday 27th June 2025

Little Ringed Plover - 6 on Stilt Pools at Swineham including 2 juveniles
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 West Bexington
White-tailed Eagle -  2 in Wareham Channel
Osprey  - 2 Lytchett Bay (incl female 6C6 hatched 2022 in Lancashire)
Red Kite - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT, 1 Bridport
Hobby - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Corn Bunting - 1 singing at Wild Woodbury DWT

Thursday 26th June 2025

Sooty Shearwater -1 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 100 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
White-tailed Eagle -  2 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
Osprey   - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB and Holten Lee
Hobby - 2 over the Piddle Valley
Little Ring Plover - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Sandpiper - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 3 2CY Abbotsbury Swannery

Wednesday 25th June 2025

Sooty Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 100 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 7 Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Honey Buzzard - over Carey Secret Garden
White-tailed Eagle - 1 2CY over Carey Secret Garden
Hobby - 1 Carey Secret Garden
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Peveril Pt.
Green Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

(Escaped) Common Waxbill - Upton Heath © Ian Ballam


Tuesday 24th June 2025

Goosander - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Balearic Shearwater - 6 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Wild Woodbury
Osprey - Lytchett Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Green Sandpiper - 16 Lytchett Fields RSPB,  1 Dodding's Farm, Cress Beds
Spotted Redshank - 2 sum/plumage  Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 over Upton Heath
Waxbill sp. - 1 Upton Heath

Blackcap - Lytchett Bay  Nick Hull




Monday 23rd June 2025

Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 100's a.m fewer p.m. Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery 
Little Tern - 3 Christchurch Hbr.
Cuckoo - Middlebere

Peregrine - Central Bournemouth © David Wareham





















Sunday 22nd June 2025

Cuckoo - 1 from Middlebere Hide
Curlew - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Redshank - 1 East Lake, Silverlake
Little Tern - 60 nests confirmed at Ferrybridge, 3 individuals at Stanpit Marsh
Balearic Shearwater - c100 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Red Kite - 1 over Lower Bockhampton
Barn Owl - 1 Middlebere
Peregrine - 3 chicks at Corfe Castle, 2 adults Silverlake

Yesterday: - 

Stone Curlew - 1 from Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 3 still Abbotsbury Swannery

Avocets, Poole Harbour © Harry McBride


Magpie, Lesley Heath © Allan Hansford


Common Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Saturday 21st June 2025

Mandarin - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 calling nr. Coombe Heath viewpoint
Common Sandpiper - 1 from VS Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields
White Stork - 2 over Carey's Secret Garden
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 from Coombe Heath viewpoint
Crossbill - 2 Chase Wood, Sixpenny Handley

Yesterday: - 

Sooty Shearwater - 1 still off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 15 off Portland Bill
Purple Heron - 1 Bennett's Water Gardens, Weymouth

Mandarin, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Friday 20th June 2025

Curlew - 4 Holes Bay
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 9 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 2nd successful nest announced by BOPH
Red Kite - 4 from Carey's Secret Garden
Firecrest - 3 Upton CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hinton St. Mary 

Grey Wagtail, River Frome © Phil Cheeseman


Redshanks, Lodmoor RSPB © Mary Stevens


Meditteranean Gull, Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Thursday 19th June 2025

Greylag - 115 Longham Lakes
Common Scoter - 60 east past Kimmeridge Bay
Nightjar - 1 at Tadnoll NR
Cuckoo - 2 from Arne Road
Curlew - 6 Lytchett Fields, 4 from Coombe Heath, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Redshank - 11 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Manx Shearwater - 250 east past Kimmeridge Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 21 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Longham Lakes
White-tailed Eagle - 2 from Coombe Heath
Kingfisher - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby 1 Coombe Heath
Grey Wagtail - 1 River Stour, Blandford

Yesterday: -

Dipper - 1 Maiden Newton

Greenfinch, Upton Heath © Peter John Corbin


Wren, River Stour, Blandford © Tracy Hart


Dipper, Maiden Newton © Phil Cheeseman

 

Wednesday 18th June 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 West Bexington
Roseate Tern - 1 over Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 again off West Bexington
Sooty Shearwater - 1 still offshore at Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 21 Portland Bill
Red Kite - 2 over Pymore, 1 over Poundbury, 1 over Carey Estate

Tuesday 17th June 2025

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Meadows
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Charminster
Red Kite - 2 over Bridport and Pymore
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Firecrest - 1 Durlson CP

Monday 16th June 2025

Nightjar - 6+ Purbeck Heath NR last night, 1 heard on Coombe Heath today
Cuckoo - 1 Wick Fields this morning, 1 Middlebere, 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 3 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Coward's Marsh
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 in full breeding plumage off West Bexington this morning
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 over Stanpit Marsh this afternoon
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Causeway
Hobby - 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
 
Nightjar, last night at Purbeck Heath NR © Garry Hayman


Sunday 15th June 2025

Quail - 1 singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Little Ringed Plover - 2 adults on Stilt Pools, Swineham
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere this evening
Little Gull - 1 West Bexington
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult at Middlebere
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 over West Parley, 1 over Eggardon Hill
Hobby - 1 Brand's Bay
 
Balearic Shearwater, Portland Bill © Steven Carey

 

Saturday 14th June 2025

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Silverlake.
Osprey - 1 Lodmoor and S over Portland.
Crossbill - 1 Durlston CP.

Grey Heron, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Friday 13th June 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Silverlake.
Common Scoter - 31 W past Portland Bill.
Cuckoo - 2 calling Morden Bog.
White Stork - 2 King's Stag area.
Avocet - 6 Brownsea Island.
Little Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 1 Houns-tout, Kingston.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Forest.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Eype (Downhouse Farm NT).

Yellowhammer, Morden Bog © Marcus Jones




















Stonechat, Morden Bog © Marcus Jones


Thursday 12th June 2025

Nightjar - 1 flushed on Hengistbury Head
Cuckoo - 1 Middlebere Heath
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Bay
Whimbrel - 2 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 2 or 3 West Bexington
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 15 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Bardolf Farm