Saturday 22nd March 2025

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Barnacle Goose - 12 Woodsford
Whooper Swan - wild bird still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Woodsford
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Caspian Gull - 1st winter briefly at Radipole Lake RSPB around midday
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Abbotsbury Swannery on western meadows
Osprey - male 022 arrived back in Poole Harbour, seen on nest
Red Kite - 2 Durlston CP, 1 over Fordington
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 between Swanage and Langton Matravers
Sand Martin - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sedge Warbler - 1 Portland Bill this morning
Willow Warbler - male still singing this morning on edge of Hillbourne Copse in Broadstone
Firecrest - 1 Tolpuddle
Black Redstart - 2 Reap Lane on Portland, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Butterstreet Cove in farmyard by road to East Fleet Touring Park, 1 Middlebere around cottages, 1 Pine View garden in Bridport
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Coward's Marsh

Blue-headed Wagtail, Coward's Marsh © Scott Usher

Blue-headed Wagtail, Coward's Marsh © Scott Usher

 

Wheatear, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Friday 21st March 2025

Garganey - 3 flew E past West Bay this morning, then (female and 2 drakes) seen off Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge and later at Abbotsbury Swannery 
LESSER SCAUP - 1 still Longham Lakes on South Lake
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Swineham Pools
Ruff - 3 Holes Bay NE
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 on the Fleet at Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Spoonbill - 5 Swineham GP
Cattle Egret - 25 at East Farm, Abbotsbury
Red Kite - 1 over Saxon Roundabout in Wareham
Hoopoe - 1 Godlingston Heath
Swallow - 2 Wareham Walls, 1 Bridging Camp
Willow Warbler - male singing on edge of Hillbourne Copse in Broadstone
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male in a garden at East Weare on Portland this afternoon
Black Redstart - 1 Barleycrates Lane on Portland, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Bridging Camp
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Barleycrates Lane on Portland
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Barleycrates Lane on Portland
White Wagtail - c6 Barleycrates Lane on Portland, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery and 1 over Charminster

White Wagtail, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Thursday 20th March 2025

Barnacle Goose - 1 on main island, Longham Lakes
Lesser Scaup - 1 still South Lake, Longham Lakes
Common Scoter - c200 past Portland Bill
Turtle Dove - 1 Puddletown
Avocet - 20+ Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Little Ringed Plover - 7 still Lower Piddle Floods, 2 still Woodsford
Knot - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Ruff - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 4 past Portland Bill
Sandwich Tern - 6 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Swineham GP
Cattle Egret - 17 Wareham Common
Osprey - 2 nth over Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - c5 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Holmebridge, 1 Came Home Farm, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1m Wareham Causeway
Sand Martin - c40 Swineham GP
Firecrest - 1m Newton Bay
Ring Ouzel - 3 north perimeter of Verne Citadel
Black Redstart - 1 Tidmoor Point
Wheatear - 3 Cogden Beach, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White Wagtail - 1 Longham Lakes
Water Pipit - 2 Coward's Marsh

Yesterday: -

Red-Throated Diver - 25 past Portland Bill

Dartford Warbler, Arne RSPB © Tracy Hart

Osprey, Poole Harbour © Kate Plater

Skylark, North Dorset © Tim Balmer

 

Wednesday 19th March 2025

Garganey - 10 past Portland Bill
Lesser Scaup - 1 still at South Lake, Longham Lakes
Velvet Scoter - 4 past Portland Bill
Avocet - c50 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 5 still Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Swineham
Green Sandpiper - 2 on River Frome, Woodsford
Black -Throated Diver - 3 still off Salterns Marina, Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - 3 over Swineham Point, 1 east, high over Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 19 Christchurch Harbour Area
Great White Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 over Hyde's Heath
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Keysworth
Red Kite - 2 over Studland, 2 Poole Quay, 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 6 in Wareham Channel, 1 imm. west over South Swanage
Sand Martin - 5 around Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head
Black Redstart - 1 at Peveril Point, Swanage
Wheatear - 1m Studland Heath
White Wagtail - 2 Crouch Hill, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Yesterday: -

Purple Sandpiper - 30 on Mudeford Sandspit

Yellowhammer, Dorchester © Sean Adams

Fieldfare, North Dorset © Tim Balmer

 

Tuesday 18th March 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 still South Lake, Longham Lake
Avocet - c100 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 8 Lower Piddle Valley, 2 Lower Frome Valley
Knot - 8 Brownsea Lagoon
Sandwich Tern - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-throated Diver - 4 again off Salterns Marina, Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - 3 off Gold Point, Arne RSPB
Red Kite - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 4 in Wareham Channel, 1 Central Poole Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 still Louds Mill STW
Wheatear - 4 Reap Lane, 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 still Ferrybridge Car Park
White Wagtail - 2 Reap Lane
Meadow Pipit - 400+ in over Reap Lane   

Yesterday: -

Velvet Scoter - 3 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 in field behind Abbotsbury Sub-tropical Gardens

Chiffchaff, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Coal Tit, Kingston Lacy © Ann Baldwin

Pintail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Monday 17th March 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 still South Lake, Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck - 1f still Bramble Bush Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still off Middle Beach, Studlans
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Woodsford
Purple Sandpiper - 13 The Cobb, Lyme Regis
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 7 in field with Cattle, Holme Lane
Great White Egret - 1 from Holme Bridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hen Harrier - 1m Bottlebush Down
Black Redstart - 1 Sailing Centre, Hengistbury Head

Stonechat, Holton Heath © Paul Kirby

Nuthatch, Upton CP © Allan Hansford

 

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Sunday 16th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (Over meadow Pool)

Cattle Egret - 24 over Priory Marsh, 3 Affpuddle

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Is, 2 Lytchett Bay RSPB (RLVP)

Red Kite - 4 over Iwerne Minster

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Dorchester Water Meadow

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Pomarine Skua - 2 dark morph Lyme Regis (off Marine Parade)

White Wagtail - 1 Dorchester Water Meadow

Curlew - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 15th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 male Longham Lakes

Common Scoter - 10 Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 1 passed Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury (Sub-tropical Gardens)

Spoonbill - 1 Swineham (on Stilt Pools), 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 over the Lower Frome meadows,

White-tailed Eagle - 4 over the Wareham Channel, 1 over Bovington.

Osprey - 1 north over Bourton

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lower Piddle Meadows, 1 Todber, 1 Swineham (south of GP)

Purple Sandpiper - 13+ Chewton Bunny, 6 Portland Bill

Green Sandpiper - 1 Holmbridge

Water Pipit -2 Swineham GP.

White Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill 

Fieldfare - c25 Long Crichel

Northern Wheatear - 11 Portland Bill, 3 Reap Lane Portland, 2 Ferrybridge

 

Little Ringed Plover - Todber © John Howell

Friday 14th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 male Longham Lakes

Red-throated Diver - 5 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 3 Buckland Ripers

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury (Behind Tropical Gardens)

Spoonbill - 2 Swineham Pt.

Red Kite - 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Monkton Hill

White-tailed Eagle - 4 Swineham over the Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Swineham Pt. 

Ruff - 4 Swineham Pt.

Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill

Sand Martin - 20 over Swineham GP, 1 over Wareham Common

House Martin - 2 over River Stour by Lady Wimborne Bridge

Tree Pipit - 1 north over Rempstone

Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Black Redstart - 1 Bere Regis Church

Northern Wheatear - 12 Reap Lane (in Horse Paddocks), 7 Portland Bill

Siberian Chiffchaff - Abbotsbury Sewage works

Cirl Bunting - 3 Durlston CP.

Cattle Egret - Buckland Ripers © Paul Harris

Thursday 13th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 male Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 1 female off Jerry's Pt.

Hen Harrier - 2 male Coward's Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 9 Avon Beach Chrichurch

Black Redstart - 1 Reap Lane

Northern Wheatear - 2 Ferrybridge,  1 Studland Heath

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Dark-bellied Brent Geese - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 12th March 2025.

Black Swan - 1 Todber.
Lesser Scaup - 1 still at Longham Lakes.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay (Jerry's Point).
Red-throated Diver - 12 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Durlston CP.
Sand Martin - c20 Holmebridge.
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit.
Wheatear - 1 Studland.
Siberian Chiffchaff - a probable at Lytchett Fields.
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit.

Tuesday 11th March 2025.

Slavonian Grebe - 3 Brands Bay (Jerry's Point).
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Grey Heron - flock of 10 past Hengistbury Head.
Great White Egret - 2 Hengistbury Head.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 southern Poole Harbour, 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wick.
Sand Martin - 1 Lodmoor.
Wheatear - 1 Moonfleet.
Firecrest - 3 Hengistbury Head.
Brambling - 1 over Hengistbury Head.

Red-breasted Merganser, Moonfleet © Paul Harris.

Mallard, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Water Rail, Lodmoor © Marcus Jones.

Water Rail, Lodmoor © Marcus Jones.

Monday 10th March 2025.

Long-tailed Duck - 1 central Poole Harbour.
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Brands Bay.
Grey Plover - 4 Stanpit.
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 2 Wareham Channel.
Purple Sandpiper - 3 West Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Peveril Point.
GLOSSY IBIS - 1 Abbotsbury (in field between village and Gardens).
Spoonbill - 1 Arne Moors.
Guillemot - 1 Poole Quay.
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Norden.
Chiffchaff - 10+ Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit.
Hawfinch - 1 Lytchett Matravers churchyard.

Great Tit, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Sunday 9th March 2025.

Common Scoter - 7 past Hengistbury Head, 2 Studland Bay.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Brands Bay (Jerry's Point).
Mandarin Duck - 2 Blandford.
Grey Plover - 23 Brands Bay.
Knot - 42 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Holes Bay.
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Wareham Channel, 1 near Martin Down, 1 Swyre Head.
Red Kite - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Portesham Hill, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Wareham Channel.
White Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill.
Wheatear - 1 Abbotsbury hillfort.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Head.

Saturday 8th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Common Scoter - 8 off Chesil Portland

Golden Plover - 100 Came Down

Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit Bight

Sanderling - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill

Red throated Diver - 2 off Portland Bill

Great Northern Diver - 2 The Fleet Ferrybridge

Great White Egret - 3 Arne Moor, 1 Silverlake

Red Kite - 5 over Lytchett Matravers, 1 Came Down, 1 over Wareham, 1 Pentridge Down

White tailed Eagle - 3 Arne RSPB, 2 Avon Valley, 1 St Aldhelms

Merlin - 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Came Down

Fieldfare - 50 Hartland Stud, 50 Bradbury Rings, 15 Pentridge Down

Wheatear - 2 Reap Lane Portland Bill

Cirl Bunting 6 Dew pool Durlston CP

Little Egret - Iford Bridge - © Clinton Whale

Friday 7th March 2025

Velvet Scoter - 1 off Mudeford Quay

Common Scoter - 28 off Hengistbury Head

Goosander - 1 Holes Bay

Water Rail - River Brit Bridport

Slavonian Grebe - 4 Littlesea The Fleet

Golden Plover - 20 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay

Red throated Diver - 14 off Hengistbury Head

Great Northern Diver - 2 Littlesea The Fleet

Cattle Egret - 27 Wareham Common

Great White Egret - 2 Swineham GP

Red Kite - 2 Lower Piddle Valley floods

Sand Martin - 1 Swineham GP

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Louds Mill Dorchester

Fieldfare - 70 Sadbarow Thorncombe

Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Peveril Point

Wheatear - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Peveril Point

Water Rail - River Brit 
© Richard Cook

Thursday 6th March 2024

Lesser Scaup - 1 still at Longham Lakes

Goosander - 1 PC World drain / Holes Bay 

Bittern - 1 Radipole RSPB North trail viewing screen

Great White Egret - 1 River Stour opposite Merely Hall Farm

White - tailed Eagle - 2 over Cole wood Wool, 1 Wareham Channel

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Abbotsbury Sewage Works

Redwing - 50 Stoborough Heath

White Wagtail - 1 Bridging Camp Wyke Regis

Hawfinch - 1 St Mary's Church Langton Matravers

Cirl Bunting [- 6 Durlston Country Park near Dew Pool

Bittern - Radipole RSPB © Colin J Mitchell

Wednesday 5th March 2024

Barnacle Goose - 10 Woodsford

Egyptiain Goose - 8    (2 adults with 6 young)  Woodsford

Ringed Plover - 15 Stanpit Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 16 The Cobb Lyme Regis

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery Currently closed & reopens 15th March

Red Kite -  2 over St Mary's Church Lytchett Matravers

Firecrest - 1 Wick riverside path Christchurch

Fieldfare - 30 Manswood

Hawfinch - 1 in a garden by Leigh Churchyard, 1 St Mary's Church Lytchett Matravers

Hen Harrier - Middlebere (yesterday)  © Tim Balmer

Purple Sandpiper - Lyme Regis  © Roger Boswell  
   

Rock Pipit - Lyme Regis  © Roger Boswell 

Great Black-backed Gull - Lyme Regis  © Roger Boswell 

Tuesday 4th March 2025

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Portland Harbour
Goosander - 12 Silverlake this evening

Black-necked Grebe - 3 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 6 on the Fleet at Littlesea, also 3 seen from Chickerell Hive Point

Ruff - 3 Lower Piddle Valley
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint

Red-throated Diver - 5 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 on the Fleet from Chickerell Hive Point
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Hydes Heath
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Short-eared Owl - 1 Poole Harbour, 2 Arne Moors
Golden Oriole - 1 male west of Durlston CP at approx SZ007770 but elusive
Wheatear - 3 Portland Bill
Brambling - 1 over PBO

Monday March 3rd 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still on south lake of Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 1 still from Jerry's Point, 2 Portland Harbour opposite Billy Winters

Slavonian Grebe - 1 from Jerry's Point, 1 still off Redhorn Quay Brands Bay

Black-necked Grebe - 1 off  South Haven Studland Heath NNR, 3 Middle Beach Studland, 1 Portland Harbour

Curlew - 11 Stanpit

Ruff - 2 Swineham

 Marsh Harrier - 1 just west of Hardy's monument

Hen Harrier - Ringtail Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 just west of Hardy's monument, 1 Swineham, 1 Swanage, 1 Kingston, 2 Wyke Down

Short-eared Owl - 2 Wyke Down

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 still sewage works Abbotsbury

Hawfinch - 1 still St Mary's churchyard Lytchett Matravers

Sparrowhawk, Winterbourne Stickland   © Will Bown

Curlew, Stanpit  © Clinton Whale

Sunday March 2nd 2025

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Ferrybridge

Greylag Goose - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still south lake Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 2 still Portland Harbour

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Jerry's Point, 2 from Sandsfoot Castle Portland Harbour

Purple Sandpiper - 3 from the Cobb Lyme Regis

Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spoonbill - 10 still from Shipstal Hide Arne RSPB

Hen Harrier - male Poole Harbour

 Red Kite - 2 over Bridport

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne Moors

Short-eared Owl - 1 Arne Moors

Wheatear - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon

Hawfinch - several still present at St John's churchyard Milborne Port

(A reliable report of a Chough at Eype on February 25th which flew west.)

Saturday March 1st 2025

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Portland Harbour

Black-throated Diver - 1 Ferrybridge

Spoonbill - 5 Swineham GPs, 14 Shipstal hide Arne RSPB

Hen Harrier - 1 male Winterbourne Stickland

 Red Kite - 1 over Stratton, 2 Corfe Mullen

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over the Fleet and then towards Portland, 4 Swineham

Siberian Chiffchaff - still present at sewage works Abbotsbury

Redwing - Several in song, west lake of Silverlake

Hawfinch - 1 in Lytchett Matravers churchyard, 5 - 10 in St John's churchyard yews Milborne Port

White-tailed Eagle, Swineham  © Kevin Lane

Hawfinch St John's churchyard Milborne Port  © Brendan Shells

Friday 28th February 2025

Pintail - 7 Longham Lakes

Lesser Scaup - male still south lake of Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Jerry's Point

 Goosander - 3 Hatch Pond

Water Rail - 1 by river in Bridport

Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Redhorn Quay, Brand's Bay, 1 from Jerry's Point 4 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point

Black-necked Grebe - 1 still Brand's Bay, 10 off Middle Beach Studland Bay, 1 Jerry's Point,

 3 off Shipstal Point

Black-throated Diver - 1 Parlstone Bay Poole Harbour

Sandwich Tern - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spoonbill -13 Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - 18 Swineham roost

Red Kite - 2 over Radipole Lake, 1 over West Bay

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Willow Warbler - 2 Longham Lakes

Wheatear - 1 male Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle Wareham Channel  ©  Tim Balmer (Feb 27th )

Cormorants Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Thursday 27th February 2025

Common Scoter - 1 male from Jerry's Point

Black-necked Grebe - 2 Jerry's Point

Sanderling - 18 Sandbanks

Red-throated Diver - 2 Hengistbury
Great Northern Diver - 2 Shell Bay
Spoonbill - 11 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 3 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Brand's Bay

White-tailed Eagle - 3+ Poole Harbour in the Wareham Channel,  1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 1 Canford Heath, 1 Sunnyside, 1 Avon Causeway
Wheatear - 1 male at Hartland Moor
Firecrest - 1 PC World Drain, 1 Upton CP (just down from the play park area)

 

Teal, Lodmoor RSPB © Marcus Jones

Bullfinch, Lodmoor RSPB © Marcus Jones

Magpie, Lodmoor RSPB © Marcus Jones

Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Marcus Jones

 

Wednesday 26th February 2025

Egyptian Goose - 2 near Throop Mill
Slavonian Grebe - 4  off Tidmoor Point

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 3 off Tidmoor Point, 2 Poole Harbour
Black-throated Diver - 2 Parkstone Bay

Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Abbotsbury Swannery

Bittern - 1 Swineham GPs this evening

Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Yesterday : A Wheatear seen at Harland Moor 

 

Glossy Ibis, Abbotsbury Swannery © Steve Groves

 

Pintail, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Brent Geese, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 25th February 2025

Goosander - 2 north of Holmebridge
Black-necked Grebe - 1 from Shipstal Hide, Arne RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields
Black-throated Diver - 5 still off Baiter, Parkstone bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Baiter, Parkstone Bay
Spoonbill - 10 still from Shipstal Hide, Arne RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 5 over Wareham Channel
Goshawk  - 1 Middlebere
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 Swyre Head, 1 Kingcombe Meadows, 1 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Ballard Down, 1 Wareham CHannel, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Corfe
Short-eared Owl - 2 still Wyke Down
Wheatear - 1 East Cliffs, Portland
Hawfinch - 1 still St. Mary's Church, Lytchett Matravers

Redshank, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Grey Wagtail, Northbourne Sewage Works © Mike Kirby

Tufted Duck, Poole Park © Allan Hansford

Monday 24th February 2025

Long-tailed Duck - 1 still off Jerry's Point
Slavonian Grebe - 6 still off Tidmoor Point, The Fleet, 1 still off Jerry's Point
Black-neckd Grebe - 4 still Portland Harbour, 1 off Jerry's Point
Avocet - 197 SW Holes Bay
Knot - c15 SW Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 15 The Cobb, Lyme Regis
Jack Snipe - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank -1 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 East off Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 2 Portland Harbour, 1 off Tidmoor Point
Spoonbill - 9 again from Shipstal Hide, Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 17 over Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 2 West Bay
Merlin - 1f Lytchett Bay
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 still Louds Mill Sewage Works, Dorchester
Redwing - 25+ in field behind Stone Bench, Holes Bay
Hawfinch - 1 still St.Mary's Churchyard, Lytchett Matravers

Long-tailed Tit, Lodmoor RSPB © Rebecca Cooke

Magpie, Poole Park © Allan Hansford

Starling, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins