Thursday October 17th 2024

Brent Goose - 530 Ferryridge

Velvet Scoter - female/immature still present at Longham Lakes

Avocet - 400 Brownsea Lagoon

Green Sandpiper - 1 on cress beds Wimborne St Giles

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 5 Brownsea Lagoon

Mediterranean Gull - 960+ Ferrbridge

 Caspian Gull - 1 again at Silverlake, 1st winter Portland

Spoonbill - c.50 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 2 Bestwall RSPB

Cattle Egret - 28 Wick Water Meadows

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Hen Harrier - juvenile Portland

White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Swineham

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 along Rodwell Trail, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Thumb Lane Portland

Radde's Warbler - 1 trapped Crown Estate field Portland

Redwing - flocks between 20 and 200 passing over Poole Harbour

Ring Ouzel - juvenile at Anvil Point, Swanage, 1 Middlebere, 1 probable Swineham GPs, 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Old Harry

Firecrest - 3 Parkstone Heights Woods

Black Redstart - 1 Wild Woodbury car park, 1 Thumb Lane Portland

Hawfinch - 1 flew north Holes Bay

White-tailed Eagle, Swineham  © Fiona Keeling

White-tailed Eagle, Swineham  © Fiona Keeling

Cattle Egret, Wick Water Meadows  © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 16th October 2024.

Grey Plover - 7 Brownsea Island.
Ruff - 1 Stanpit.
Knot - 5 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 13 Brownsea Island.
Caspian Gull - 1 Silverlake.
Sandwich Tern - 2 at Silverlake is only the second record for the site.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay (Jerrys Point).
Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 14 Christchurch Harbour, 10 Wareham Common.
Spoonbill - 61 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Swineham, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 3 Portland (PBO, the Borstal and the Mermaid), 1 Wick.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury.

Late news: 2 White-tailed Eagle at Badbury Rings on 7th Oct.

Curlew, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

White-tailed Eagles, Badbury Rings, 7th Oct © Penny Isaac 

Tuesday 15th October 2024.

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor.
Velvet Scoter - 3 past Mudeford Quay, 1 Longham Lakes.
Goosander - 19 Silverlake.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Jack Snipe - 1 Hengistbury.
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 20 Hengistbury, 5 Wick.
Spoonbill - 45 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Keysworth, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 still Portland Bill.
Red Kite - c10 over Cerne Abbas, 3 Maiden Newton.
Wheatear - 1 Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle (Hog Hill).
Ring Ouzel - 1 Middlebere.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Portland (Culverwell & Avalanche Rd Hump), 1 Hengistbury.
Firecrest - 13 Hengistbury and Wick, 2 Holes Bay (PC World drain), 1 Corfe River valley, 1 Wareham (Carey).
Goldfinch - 475 E over Hengistbury.
Linnet - 385 E over Hengistbury.

Ring Ouzel, Middlebere © Alan Membury

Velvet Scoter, Longham Lakes © Mike Kirby

Monday 14th October 2024.

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor.
Velvet Scoter - 1 Longham Lakes.
Goosander - 3 Woodsford.
Golden Plover - 3 Eggardon Hill.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 2 Brands Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes.
Great White Egret - 1 Turlin Moor.
Cattle Egret - 12 Wick, 5 Holmebridge, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Upton CP, 1 Woodsford.
Spoonbill - c45 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Goathorn.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Holmebridge.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Middlebere.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Wareham (Carey).

Pied Wagtails, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Sunday 13th October 2024.

Velvet Scoter - 1 Longham Lakes is the third inland record for Dorset since 1900.
Golden Plover - 3 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 6 Brownsea Island, 3 Swineham.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes.
Cattle Egret - 3 Worgret.
Spoonbill - 44 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole, 1 Bournemouth.
Red Kite - 1 Ringstead Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Swineham.
Wheatear - 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Middlebere.
Redwing - 4 Lytchett Fields.
Dartford Warbler - 1 Swineham is a rarity here.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Broadstone (Hillbourne Copse), 1 Coward's Marsh, 

   1 Middlebere, 1 Studland (South Haven), 1 Wick, 1 Winspit.
Radde's Warbler - 1 still present Wakeham, Portland.
Firecrest - 3 around Holes Bay, 3 Wick, 2 Durlston CP, 2 Swineham, 1 Hengistbury Head.

Brambling - 1 Middlebere.

Saturday 12th October 2024

Pochard - 11 Longham Lakes

Black necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere Channel

Arctic Skua - 2 off Hengisbury Head, 1 off Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Hengisbury Head, 1 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 7 Hegisbury Head, 1 over Rempstone Forest

Osprey - 1 Middlebere Channel 

Hen Harrier - 1 Portland Bill crown Estate Field, 1 Rempstone Forest

Red Kite - 1 over Arne RSPB

White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Short eared Owl - 1 Hengisbury Head flew west

Merlin - 1 Greenlands Farm Studland

Hobby - 1 Radipole RSPB

Yellow browed Warbler - 1 Reap Lane Portland, 1 Upway in a private garden, 1 Broadstone Hillbourne Copse

Radde's Warbler - 1 Wakeham Portland

Ring Ouzel -1 Middlebere Track, 1 Pentridge Down,

Brambling - 4 Pentridge Down

Hawfinch - 5 Pentridge Down

Ring Ouzel - Middlebere Track © Colin Chainey

Sparrowhawk - Middlebere © Colin Chainey

Kingfisher - Middlebere © Colin Chainey

Radde's Warbler - Wakeham Portland 
© Nick Hopper via X 

Friday 11th October 2024

Barnacle goose - 1 Portland Bill

Pintail - 20 Holes Bay

Goosander - 1 River Frome at Woodsford

Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Holes Bay

Great Northern Diver - 2 flew west of Hengisbury Head

Comormant  (Sinensis) - 400 Poole Harbour

Spoonbill - 47 Brownsea Lagoon DWT 

Great White Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour flew north, 1 Brands Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 over Hydes Heath Arne RSPB

Bearded Tit- 10 Swineham

Yellow - browed Warbler - 3 Culverswell Portland, 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Firecrest - 5 Arne RSPB, 3 Stour Valley NNR, 2 Durlston CP

Ring Ouzel - 1 Easton Portland, 1 Wyke Regis

Brambling - 1 Stour Valley NNR

Peregrine Falcon - Durlston CP ©  Alan Membury

Perregrine Falcon - Purbeck  ©  Will Bown

Thursday 10th October 2024

Goosander - 14 into Roost at Silverlake

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Spotted Redshank -1 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham

Greenshank - 5 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham

Spoonbill - 35 Wareham Valley, 5 Lytchett Bay

Cattle Egret - 26 Hegisbury Head, 23 East Holme

Great White Egret - 1 to roost at Swineham Gravel pit 

Hobby - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham

Bearded Tit - 4 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham

House Martin - 30 Maiden Castle

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Reap Lane Portland, 3 Portland Obs, 1 Wyke Regis, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Holloway's Dock Christchurch Harbour

Black Redstart - 1 Thumb Lane Portland

Wheatear - 1 Bridport Golf Course

13 Pied Wagtail - 350 to roost at Hatch Pond, 28 Alba Challow Hill Corfe Castle, 20 Stanpit Marsh

Wednesday 9th October 2024

Pochard - 30 Silverlake

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Ruff - 2  Lower Piddle Valley and Curlew Pool Swineham

Spotted Redshank - 7 Mouth of River Frome, 2 Stilt Pool, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 6 Swineham, 1 Lytchett Bay

Bittern - 1 Swineham Gravel Pit

Cattle Egret - 3 Holmebridge

Great White Egret - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Swineham Gravel Pit, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 2 Middlebere Poole Harbour

Red Kite - 2 over Wareham

Merlin - 2 Middlebere Moor

Yellow Browed Warbler - 4 Thumb Lane Portland, 1 Lodmor RSPB, 1 Radipole RSPB

Firecrest - 1 Redhill Common

Ring Ouzel - 3 Godlingston Gully Ulwell, 1 Thumb Lane Portland

Brambling - 1 South Haven Studland

Yesterday: Water Pipit between Church Cove and the lighthouse Portland

Tuesday 8th October 2024

Brent Goose - 7 Brands Bay
Pintail - 4 Brands Bay
Great-crested Grebe - 46 Brands Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 48 Brownsea Lagoon
Marsh Harrier - 4 Swineham
Peregrine - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Yesterday: -

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Swineham
Short-eared Owl - 1 south of Corfe Castle

Little Owl, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

Firecrest, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

Black-tailed Godwit, Lytchett Bay © Peter John Corbin

 

Monday 7th October 2024

Wigeon - 782 Holes Bay
Goosander - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Black-necked grebe - 1 still Longham Lakes
Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Bramble Bush Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Spotted Redshank - 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sandwich Tern - 6 Bramble Bush Bay
Cormorant - 300 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 73 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Shipstal Point, 1 Lytchett Fields
Cattle Egret - 15 Wick
Great White Egret - 9 Longham Lakes, 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Kingfisher - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Woodpecker - 1 near Stone Bench, Upton CP
Hobby - 1 over Old Hill, Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Thumb Lane, 1 Southwell, 1 The Hump, 1 Portland Bird Obs
Firecrest - 1 Wick
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 still Portland Bird Obs

Yesterday: - \

Firecrest - 7 various locations Portland 

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Mark Churchill

Grey Wagtail, Mudeford © Andy Enefer

Balck-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Annabel Sharpe

Sunday 6th October 2024

Eider - 5 Wareham Channel
Goosander - 19 Silverlake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still Longham Lakes
Avocet  - c30 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere. 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1st year, from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Black Tern - 1 juv down The Fleet from Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Sth from Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 65 still Brownsea Lagoon, 3 in channel, Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 11 Wick
Great White Egret - 7 Longham Lakes, 1 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Mudeford, 1 Furzey Island, 1 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Avalanche Road Hump, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Culverwell
Firecrest - Portland Bird Observatory
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bird Observatory
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 adult Male at Portland Bird Observatory, 1 juv. still Culverwell

Yesterday: -

Ruddy Shelduck - 3 Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 45 Lodmoor RSPB
Kestrel - 9 Pentridge Down
Woodlark - 3 Pentridge Down

Golden Plovers, Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler

Red-breasted Flycatcher juvenile, Culverwell © Steven Carey

Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Saturday 5th October 2024

Red-legged Partridge - 6 NW Southill
Grey Partridge - 2 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
Brent Geese - 7 Stanpit Marsh
Garganey - 1 Juv. Coward's Marsh
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Avocet - 1 in Rock Lea Channel
Ruff - 2 Lower Piddle Floods
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 24 over Turlin Shore, 8 Wick Water Meadows, 7 Radipole RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Middlebere, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay
Red Kite - 1 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Shipstal, Arne RSPB, 1 Hengistbury, 1 near Manor French Farm
Merlin - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Hobby - 1 Juv over Old Hill, Portland, 1 over Portland Bill, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 calling Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 calling Thumb Lane
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory, 1 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
Ring Ouzel - 2 Top Fields, Portland Bill, 1 between Old Hill & Verne Hill Road, Portland
Redwing - 7 near Loverly Lane, Didlington
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor, Portland
Whinchat - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Wheatear - 8 Crouch Hill, 2 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Witchampton


 

Hobby, Silverlake © Simon Craft

Chiffchaff, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney

Black-necked Grebe, Longham Lakes © Gary Holderness

Friday 4th October 2024

Goosander -  14 Silverlake this evening, 1 on R Frome at Woodsford
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Golden Plover - 300+ Pentridge Down
Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Knot - 5 Brand's Bay, 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Fleet
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Greenshank -  1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 75 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Hampreston fields
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Meyrick Park GC, 1 over Longham Lakes
Short-eared Owl - 1 West Bay
Merlin - 1 West Bay
Woodlark - 7 Pentridge Down
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Littlesea Woods near water tank
Redwing - 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Yellow Wagtail - 1 West Bay
Crossbill - 2 Pentridge Down

Yesterday : 2 Yellow-browed Warblers on Portland (PBO and Sweethill)

Common Scoter, Shell Bay © Will Bown

 

Thursday 3rd October 2024

Goosander -  1 on R Frome at Woodsford
Common or Pallid Swift - 1 Wick Fields
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 27 left Pergins Island roost in Holes Bay this morning
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Goshawk - 1  juvenile seen briefly in Poole Harbour north
Pallid Harrier - a probable ringtail over Hengistbury this morning
Red Kite - 6 Badbury Rings
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 trapped & ringed at Careys Secret Garden, 1 Moonfleet
Firecrest - 4 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 3+ at Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Cogden Beach
Ring Ouzel - 1 Ballard Down this morning, 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Ballard Down
Hawfinch - 1 over PBO

Vis mig at West Bay included -  a ticking Bunting most resembling Rustic and a possible Turtle Dove. Also a Red Kite, Redwing, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Woodlark, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jays, 1000 Linnets, 400 Swallows, 1900 House Martins and 140 Meadow Pipits.

Yesterday : a  Redwing over Litton Cheney and 6 over Poole Harbour

Kestrel, Woodville © John Bishop

 

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Wednesday 2nd October 2024

Goosander -  13 Silverlake (East Lake) this evening, 4 on R Frome at Woodsford this morning
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle Valley floods, 1 Woodsford
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank -  17 in Poole Harbour area
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Cattle Egret - 25 roosted on Pergins Island in Holes Bay last night, 1 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Brand's Bay
Marsh Harrier - 20 left roost in Poole Harbour this morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Thumb Lane on Portland, 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Firecrest - 2 Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Ballard Down

Yesterday : a Short-eared Owl at West Bay

Wheatear, Crouch Hill (Stanpit) © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 1st October 2024

Garganey - 1 on Decoy Pond at Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Ruff - 3 Swineham
Sanderling - 21 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Greenshank -  2 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 seen again in Holes Bay from Upton CP lookout
Glossy Ibis - 1 flew down Lorton Valley in direction of Lodmoor this evening
Spoonbill - 55 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Holmebridge, 1 Swineham
Great White Egret - 1 Shipstal (Arne RSPB), 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel
Honey-buzzard - 1 headed south over Hengistbury Head mid-morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 heard at Abbotsbury Swannery

Greenshank, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

 

Monday 30th September 2024

Goosander - 1 Silverlake, 4 over Lytchett Fields

 Red-breasted Merganser - 7 Poole Harbour

 Pallid Swift - possible past Hengistbury Head

Avocet - c.130 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Lagoon

Caspian Gull - 1 on flooded fields West Bay

Forster's Tern - returning 3rd winter (north west) Holes Bay

Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor 'hump' into Weymouth Bay

Balearic Shearwater - 10 flew past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Wick Water Meadows

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Merlin - 1 Durlston Head

Short-eared Owl - 1 flew over Brownsea Island Lagoon

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Sunday 29th September 2024

 Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Studland Bay

Avocet - 22 Middlebere

Black-tailed Godwit - c.510 Middlebere, 61 Brands Bay

Knot - 4 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Chard Junction GP

Greenshank - 2 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay

Little Tern - 1 Brands Bay

Black Tern - 1 Brands Bay, 4 Wareham Channel

Great Skua - 1 past Durlston, 1 Wareham Channel

Arctic Skua - 1 past Durlston

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon NT

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Goshawk - 1 Middlebere

Woodlark - 1 over Pentridge Down

Saturday 28th September 2024

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Golden Plover - 27 Lodmoor

Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 71 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 3 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay, 4 Shipstal

Balearic Shearwater - 40 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Wick Water Meadows

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Cerne Abbas, 2 Shipstal

Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Chiffchaff - 132 ringed at Lytchett Heath and 143 at Carey's Secret Garden

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Godlingston Hill

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Observatory

Whinchat - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head

 Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Fancy's Farm Portland, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 15 Stanpit

Peregrine, Durlston  © Will Bown

Friday 27th September 2024

 Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Brownsea

Curlew - 86 Brands Bay

Knot - 4 Brownsea, 1 Brands Bay

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake

Jack Snipe - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

(Bonaparte's Gull - possible on Brownsea Lagoon)

Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 1 Puddletown Water Meadows

Osprey - 1 briefly settled in a tree by River Frome at Frampton

Honey Buzzard - 2 flew out to sea Studland Bay

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay

Redstart - 1 Barleycrates Lane, Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 in a Poundbury Garden

Wheatear - 1 Silverlake

Thursday 26th September 2024

Balearic Shearwater - c100 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lower Piddle Floods

Glossy Ibis - over Radipole lake 

Honey Buzzard - 1 flew out to sea Swanage

Hobby - 2 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Coward's Marsh

RED_FOOTED FALCON - 1, 1st/cy Lodmoor RSPB

Golden Plover - 5 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle Floods

Greenshank - 4 Lower Piddle Floods

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Green Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Cattle Egret - 18 east over Swineham Pt, 4 Wick meadows, 3 Stilt Pools Best wall Meadows, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 36 Poole Hbr, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Osprey - 1 juv Wareham Channel

Ringed Plover - 90 Stanpit Marsh, 28 Fisherman's Dock sea wall Poole.

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Common Sandpiper - 3 Silverlake, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Floods

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 over Oakdale (NocMig), 1 Stanpit Marsh

Meadow Pipit - 5000+ over Portland, 70 Stanpit Marsh, 60 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 10 Hengistbury Hd. 

Wheatear - 5 Baiter Park, 3 Ferrybridge

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill

Blackcap - c1000 Portland, 15 Hengistbury Hd, 4 PCW Drain Poole

Chiffchaff - c1000 Portland, 60 Stanpit Marsh, 50 PCW Drain Poole, 45 Hengistbury Hd.

Willow Warbler - 3 Wick, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Ruff - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Tuesday 24th September 2024

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Brand's Bay

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake

Balearic Shearwater - 20 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 6 Hartland, 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Bestwall Meadows

Great White Egret - 7 Middlebere, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Spoonbill - 60+ Brownsea Lagoon, 22 Middlebere

Honey Buzzard - 1 NE over Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery flew down the Fleet.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 2 Goathorn / Brand's Bay

Hobby - 1 imm Lower Piddle Floods

Ringed Plover - 60 Hengistbury Hd.

Golden Plover - 4 Brand's Bay, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lytchett Bay (NocMig)

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Common Sandpiper - 4 Silverlake, 1 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 7 Lower Piddle Floods

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Silverlake

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 on the Stilt Pools 

Swallow - 160 Hengistbury Hd.

Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 6 Lower Piddle Floods, 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Hd,

Redwing  - 1 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes

Song Thrush - 6 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes

Chiffchaff - 80 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Swanage YHA.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Bunting - 14 Hengistbury Hd.

Garganey - Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

Yellow-legged Gull -  Stilt Pools - Meadows © Gary Hayman

Spotted Flycatcher - Swanage YHA © Gary Hayman

Monday 23rd September 2024

Common Scoter - 10 past Hengistbury Hd.

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Durlston CP.

Manx Shearwater - 2 past Durlston CP.

Balearic Shearwater - 9 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 4 Wick Meadows

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Brand's Bay, 1+ Lodmoor RSPB.

Spoonbill - 74 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Stanpit Marsh.

Goshawk - 1 imm fem Pentridge Down.

Osprey - 1 Brand's Bay

Hobby - 1 over Lower Piddle Floods

Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Hengistbury HHC Sandbar.

Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Silverlake.

Green Sandpiper - 5 Lower Piddle Floods, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hatch Pond

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 10+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Tree Pipit - 2 Pentridge Down

Yellow Wagtail - 6 Durlston CP, 4 over Hengistbury Hd, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Pentridge Down

Redstart - 3 Pentridge Down

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Pentridge Down

Chiffchaff - 90 Hengistbury Hd, 22 Middlebere, 11 Wick.

Willow Warbler -1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Middlebere.

Firecrest - 7 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Sunday 22nd September 2024

Common Scoter - 1 Swineham GPs on Main Pit
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 24 Brownsea Lagoon
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 on Stilt Pools at Swineham, but not seen this evening
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 3 Silverlake, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Wood Sandpiper - 1 briefly at Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 briefly at Silverlake, 1 Lower Piddle Valley                 Floods (Swineham)
Spotted Redshank - 8 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  11 Middlebere, 7 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - c70 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 near Round Island (Poole Harbour), 1 Silverlake
Honey-buzzard - 1 headed north over East Cliffs on Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Lower Piddle Valley (Swineham), 1 Stanpit
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Old Hill on Portland
Firecrest - 1 Cogden Beach
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at PBO
Whinchat - 1 Silverlake
Yellow Wagtail - 24 Stanpit, 3 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)

Yesterday : a Red Kite at Athelhampton

Saturday 21st September 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Stint - 1 Tidmoor Point
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  23 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Brand's Bay
Caspian Gull - 2cy on Stilt Pools at Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill (18 past yesterday)
Spoonbill - 73 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 7 Wick, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Tidmoor
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 heard in Littlesea Woods (The Fleet)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male at Shillingstone in field opposite railway station, 1 at PBO

Yesterday : a Wryneck heard at Arne RSPB in woods at start of the Shipstal Trail.

Friday 20th September 2024

Garganey -  Female on South Marsh (Stanpit)
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 4 Hengistbury Head, 2 Stanpit, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay again from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Snipe  - 1 Holes Bay (SW), the first of the season
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay (NE), 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere at high tide, 1 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  15 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Middlebere
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 66 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Christchurch Harbour flying upriver
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 3 Priory Marsh (Christchurch)
Hobby - 1 at Broadmayne (over lake by Watergates Lane)
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Tidmoor Point
Ring Ouzel - 1 briefly on Batters at Hengistbury
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Middlebere
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Yellow Wagtail - 8 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Ringstead Bay

Thursday 19th September 2024

Swift - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Ballard Down
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Bight
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpipper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Stint - 1 Swineham (Stilt Pools)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay (SW)
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour
Merlin - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Ballard Down
Hirundines  - 16,680 counted over Ballard Down this morning including 10,810 House Martins, 7,500 House Martins and 4,600 Swallows over Hengistbury
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 over Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 31 over Hengistbury Head, c18 Stanpit Marsh

Wednesday 18th September 2024

Common Scoter - 4 West off Durlston CP
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 on long Groyne, Hengistbury, 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still on pools near The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank - 4 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB, 1 again Lytchett Fields, 1 from     Stone Bench, Upton CP
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1cy Western Scrapes, Lodmoor RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Hengistbury
Spoonbill - 2 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 still Lodmoor RSPB, 2 high over Swanage Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 over Arne Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Crown Estate Field, Portland, 1 ringtail off Hengistbury
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red-footed Falcon - 1 possible Juv towards Clayhanger Farm
Merlin - 1 over Hengistbury
Swallow - 4,500 over Hengistbury
House Martin - 2,600 over Hengistbury
Firecrest - 3 in Wood, Hengistbury, 1 in Youth Hostel Garden, Swanage
Yellow Wagtail - 19 Crouch Hill, 16 over hengistbury Head, 11 Durlston CP
TAWNY PIPIT - 1 on Abbotsbury Beach
Tree Pipit - 2 over Hengistbury

Yesterday: -

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Arne RSPB

Chiffchaff, Portesham © Jayson Grove

Little Stint, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Starling, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

 

Tuesday 17th September 2024

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Lake. Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Fields
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Goathorn
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Kingfisher - 1 Longham Lakes
Wryneck - 1 Godlingston Gap
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields
Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st winter, still Lytchett Fields
House Martin - 260 East from Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 ringed at Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Hatch Pond, 2 Goathorn
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Crouch Hill
Wheatear - 4 Hartland Moor, 3 Crouch Hill, 2 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock
Yellow Wagtail - 7 before Stud Farm, Soldier's Road, Hartland, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Meadow Pipit - 226 over Lytchett Fields

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 44 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Seacombe (1 adult, 2 juvenile)
Corn Bunting - 15 Wyke Down

Knot, Ferrybridge © Will Bown

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stanpit Marsh © Allan Hansford

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman