Friday 23rd October 2026

Very strong winds today so only reports were :

Common Scoter - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Merlin - 1 Arne RSPB at Coombe Heath
Black Redstart - 3 Portland Bill near Pulpit Rock

Thursday 22nd October 2026

Scaup - drake still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Wareham Common
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Cranborne Common, flew towards Wimborne St Giles this morning
Red Kite - 1 Winfrith Heath DWT
Short-eared Owl - 1 NW over Durlston CP
Dartford Warbler - 2 Stephen's Castle NR
Firecrest -  3 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay, 1 Durlston CP, 1 retrapped at Carey Estate
Black Redstart - 2 at Portland Bill on East Cliffs below the Observatory
Woodlark - 4 NW over Durlston CP
Water Pipit - 2 Portland Bill this afternoon but flushed
Snow Bunting - 1 still at Portland Bill and another at West Cliffs above Reap Lane  

Hen Harrier, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Wednesday 21st October 2026

Grey Plover - 9 Stanpit
Bar-tailed Godwit - 11 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 17 in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 3 Holes Bay
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Snow Bunting - 1 Portland Bill on East Cliffs below the Observatory 

Monday 19th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Longham Lakes
Mandarin Duck - 32 Thorncombe
Velvet Scoter - 1 Kimmeridge flew East
Grey Plover - 2 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Gull - 1 1st Winter Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Lagoon, 30 Shipstall Point Arne
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail through Kimmeridge
Black Redstart - 2 Portland
Water Pipit - 3 North Viewing screen Radipole Lake

Barnacle Goose Longham Lakes © Martin Wood

Sunday 18th October 2026

Pochard - 16 Longham Lakes
Greater Scaup - 1 Drake Abbotsbury swannery
Cattle Egret - 8 Holmebridge
Red Kite - 9 West Bay, 1 Longham lakes, 2 Bere Marsh farm
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 2 Winspit valley, 1 heard calling at Ladymead Gardens Portland early morning
Ring Ouzel - 2 Eastington Farm top of Seacombe
Brambling - 1 Hardy Monument, 7 Ballard Down
Redpoll - 3 Ballard down
Cirl Bunting - 1 West Bay

Saturday 17th October 2026

Goldeneye - 1 Male flew into the harbour early morning
Red Brerasted Meerganser - 3 Littlesea Tidmoor
Greater Scaup - 1 1st winter off Goathorn, 1 Wareham Channel ID showed to be different birds, 1 Drake Abbotsbury swannery
Red Kite - 1 Sydling St Nicholas, 2 Spetsbury, 15 Pentridge Down
Merlin - 1 Littlesea SE, 1 Ballard Down
Redpoll - 3 N.Haven 5 Pentridge Down
Black Redstart - Reap Lane Portland, 1 Range Tidmoor

Friday 16th October 2026

Golden Plover - 4 over West Compton

Bar-tailed Godwit - 8 Arne Bay

Sandwich Tern - 3 around Newton's Cove Weymouth

Spoonbill - 60 Shipstal PointArne Bay RSPB

Hen Harrier - Ringtail again at West Compton

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Stour valley

Merlin - male West Compton

Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still at Crown Estate field Portland

Woodlark - 13 flew over Portland

 Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory

Sub adult Goshawk, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Sparrowhawk © Tim Balmer

Thursday 15th October 2026

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury swannery

 Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill yesterday

Glossy Ibis - 1 still at East Marsh Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - in water meadows River Frome near Lubbecke Way Dorchester

Marsh Harrier - 1 West Compton

Hen Harrier - Ringtail again at West Compton

Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still Crown Estate fields Portland

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 at the 'hump'Avalanche Road Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 hut field Portland Bird Observatory

Firecrest - 1 in trees near the Derby Road - Manor Road roundabout East Cliff Bournemouth

Black Redstart - 1 top fields Portland

Olive-backed Pipit - 1 briefly at Hengistbury Head

Wednesday 14th October 2026

Common/Pallid Swift - from boat tour Poole Harbour

Avocet - 32 Holes Bay, c.400 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 1 still from Rock Leigh viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB

Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory marsh Stanpit Marsh, 5 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 flew over Hengistbury Head

Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon, 48 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 off Giggers Island Poole Harbour

Marsh Harrier - 6+ Swineham/Keysworth area

Hen Harrier - juvenile male at Arne Moors 

Red Kite - 2 over Holton Lee

Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still at Crown Estate fields Portland

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 briefly at  Knighton Heath wood

Redwing - 6 over Parkstone, 4 Stanpit

Treecreeper, North Dorset © Tim Balmer

Tuesday 13th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 north of level crossing on Lewell Road Woodsford

Egyptian Goose - 153 Woodsford Farm (227 last night)

Goosander - 7 Silverlake

Avocet - c.500 Brownsea Lagoon

Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit Bight, 1 Lodmoor, west scrape

Golden Plover - 275 Lodmoor

Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome Woodsford

Arctic Tern - 1 from Stone Pier Weymouth

Glossy Ibis - 1 North Marsh Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor

Cattle Egret - 8 Louds Mill

Hen Harrier - Ringtail between West Compton and Eggardon Hill

Red Kite - 1 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Winterbourne Herringston, 2 Middlebere

Merlin - 1 Compton Valance, 1 Middlebere

Red-backed Shrike - 1 still Crown Estate field Portland

Wheatear - 2 Crouch Hill

Hen Harrier Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Monday 12th October 2026

Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 13 Portland Bill,  3 from Poole to Guernsey ferry

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Poole to Guernsey ferry

Spoonbill - 25 Brownsea Lagoon 

Avocet c400 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay 

Arctic Skua - 9 Portland Bill

Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Peveril Point.

Common Sandpiper - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood

Grey Plover - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood

Sunday 11th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Wareham Water Meadow

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Scaup - 1 male Abbotsbury Swannery

Goosander - 6 Silverlake

Cattle Egret - 234 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor RSPB 

Great White Egret - 5 Abbottsbury Swannery, 5 Coombe Arne, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Glossy Ibis - 4 in the Wareham Channel, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Red Kite - 7 over Pentridge, 5 Red Kite over Swineham Pt, 4 Coombe Arne.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Coombe Arne., 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Abbotdbury Swannery, 1 Charmouth

Merlin - 1 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Acton 

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Golden Plover - 260 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 over Hengistbury Hd.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 4 Poole Hbr.

Woodpigeon - c340 over St Aldhelm's Hd.

Woodlark - 13+ over Pentridge, 1 St. Aldhelm's Head, 1 Charmouth 

Skylark - 120 St Aldhelm's Hd. 15 over Pentridge.

Redwing - 23 over Pentridge. 

Alba Wagtail - 82 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 20 over Pentridge

Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st/w Portland Bill

Brambling - 1 heard over Abbotsbury Swannery

Greater Scaup - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood

Saturday 10th October 2026

Scaup - 1 imm/male Abottsbury Swannery

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 6 Hengistbury Hd.

Great Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon

Glossy Ibis - 1 Hengistbury Hd. (seen later on Easy marsh)

Red Kite - 4 from Cordite Waly Holton Heath, 1 Swyer Head

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Swyer Head, 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Merlin - 2 over Hengistbury Hd.

Avocet - 618 Brownsea Lagoon

Golden Plover - c250 Lodmoor RSPB

Jack Snipe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Lagoon

Grey Phalarope - 1 Lyme Regis

Little Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Pied Wagtail - 260-300 to roost Hatch Pond

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd, (Solent Mead)

Willow Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

RADDE'S WARBLER - 1 LYTCHETT HEATH (Caught and ringed)

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st/w Portland Bill in Crown Estate Fields

Magpie - 60-80 to roost Harch Pond

Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Redpoll - 2 Hengistbury Hd

Radde'd Warbler - Lytchett Heath © Nick Hull

Friday 9th October 2026

Garganey - 1 Dorchester Water Meadows

Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach Studland

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 4 Lytchett Bay

Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill on the top fields.

Red-backed Shrike - 1 Portland Bill by the old Higher Light

Thursday 8th October 2026

Common Crane - 5 Overcombe
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel
Glossy Ibis - 6  Wareham Channel
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Wareham Channel
Wryneck - 1 West Bexington along coast path below long house
Red-Backed Shrike - 1 fields North of Lighthouse Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Maiden Castle
Dusky Warbler - 1 in moat at crazy golf Weymouth
Wheatear - 1 Peverill Point Swanage

Wednesday 7th October 2026

Golden Plover - 18 Stanpit Marsh flew West

Grey Plover - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Lodmoor RSPB West scrape

Spoonbill - 78 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh on South & West marsh, 1 over Briantspuddle

Cattle Egret - 19 Bog Lane SANG Stoborough

Great White Egret - 1 Bog Lane SANG Stoborough

Short eared Owl - 1 Throop Bournemouth

Whinchat - 1 Holme Lane GP

Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola

Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 

Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 

Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 

 

Tuesday 6th October 2026

Goosander - 12 Silverlake

Dotterel - 1 heard over Anvil pt Durlston CP

Knot - 26 Middlebere

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere

Yellow legged Gull - 1 adult Middlebere

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh

Spoonbill - 3 Holes Bay, 1 Middlebere

Yesterday: 1 Barred Warbler at Portland Bill

Chiffchaff - North Dorset  ©  Tim Balmer 

Kingfisher - Blandford Forum ©  Tim Balmer 

Starling - Poole Park ©  Tim Balmer 

Monday 5th October 2026

Goosander - 5 Redheads at Woodsford

Grey Plover - 4 Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Purple Sandpiper - Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh

Spoonbill - 68 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 20 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 3 Holes Bay

Great White Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Goshawk - 1 Lytchett Fields

Red Kite - 2 Maiden Castle

White tailed Eagle - 3 Great Ovens Wareham Forest, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Merlin - 2 Eggardon Hill, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Hobby - 3 Radipole Weymouth, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Yellow-browed Warbler - 4 Portland Bill trapped and ringed (3 at the Obs & 1 Culverwell)

Chiffchaff (Siberian) - 1 Trapped & ringed Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Trapped & ringed Portland Obs

Grasshopper Warbler - Lytchett Bay RSPB

Little Bunting - 1 juv trapped & ringed Culverwell Portland Bill

Sunday 4th October 2026

Quail - Durlston CP

Pochard - 2 (1m +1f) Swineham GP

Ruff - 3 Arne Moor

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel

Little Stint - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Wytch Lake

Glossy Ibis - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh.

Spoonbill - c100 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay

Great White Egret - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Arne Moor

Goshawk - 1 over Godlingston Cemetery

Red Kite - 1 Winfrith Heath, 1 Holt

White tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 high over Middlebere

Woodlark - 1 Middlebere track, 1 Stanpit Marsh crouch Hill

Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP 

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Castle

Redstart - 1 Swanage Prospect allotments

Yesterday: 1 Lapland Bunting at Hegisbury Head and flew south, also 1 Osprey

Saturday 3rd october 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 Silverlake
Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Glossy Ibis - 1 Keysworth ( no public access ), 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 9 Holes bay, 100 Brownsea Lagoon
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Thumb lane Portland
Olive-Backed Pipit - 1 reported at Culverwell Portland
Whinchat - Stour Valley Meadows

Friday 2nd October 2026

Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Golden Plover - 13 Field between Wynford Eagle and Eggarden Hill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 Rock Lea View Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Over A35 Winterborne Abbas
Hobby - 1 Arne
Woodlark - 3 Juvenile between Ower and Goathorn
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head Near the wooden bridge at Wick
Wheatear - 1 West Compton


 

Thursday 1st October 2026

Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Rock Lea View Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea lagoon
Razorbill - 1 Off Branksome Beach
Glossy Ibis - 1 East Marsh Stanpit
Spoonbill - 104 Brownsea Lagoon, 10 Shipstal Point, 2 Lytchett Bay
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head flew west
Wheatear - 1 West Bay Golf club., 1 St Aldhelms Head
Ortolan Bunting - 1 Flew over Carey ringing station

Wheatear St Aldhelms Head © Phil Bentley

Wednesday 30th September 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 east over Lewell this morning, 1 Swineham
Spotted Crake - 1 on Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB, but elusive
Ruff - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Golden Plover - 17 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 2  Lytchett Fields on Sherford Pools
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 25 Brownsea Lagoon
Sooty Shearwater - 1 over Poole Bay, 
Glossy Ibis - 3 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Brownsea Island
Spoonbill - 101 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne Moors
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Merlin- 1 in off Poole Bay

Hobby, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Osprey, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

 

Tuesday 29th September 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 Silverlake on East Lake, 1 Arne Moors
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Bight
Golden Plover - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Arne Moors
Little Tern - 1 Poole Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 2 west past Durlston CP this morning
Sooty Shearwater - 1 west past Durlston CP this morning
Glossy Ibis - 3 over Sandsfoot Caslle (Portland Harbour) towards Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 108 Brownsea Lagoon, 7 Arne RSPB, 2 Holes Bay
Great White Egret - 2 Arne Moors
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Wick this morning but not seen since
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Avalanche Road (Portland)
Meadow Pipit - 434 over Hengistbury Head, 350 over Portland Bill
Linnet - 490 over Portland Bill, 100 over Hengistbury Head

Monday 28th September 2026

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Glossy Ibis - 2 over Holes Bay this morning, 1 Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 93 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Barred Warbler - 1 retrapped at Portland Bill (ringed there on 26th Sept)
Grasshopper Warbler - 5 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head at eastern end
Firecrest - 9 Hengistbury Head

Sunday 27th September 2026

Pochard - 1 Stanpit (unusual in the CHOG area)
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 1 Poole Harbour
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 16 Middlebere
Bar-tailed Godwit - 9 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Gull - 1cy at Portland Bill near Culverwell
Glossy Ibis - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - c10 Wareham Common just downstream of Baggs Mill
Merlin - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 trapped & ringed  and 1 retrapped at Carey Estate
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Stour Valley NR, at bottom of path from Redhill by fishing platform
Firecrest - 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate

Yellow-browed Warbler, Stour Valley NR © Tom Carley

Greenshank, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

 

Saturday 26th September 2026

Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Poole Harbour.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Poole Harbour.

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.

Greenshank - 16 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Glossy Ibis - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Great White Egret - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 Wick.
Spoonbill - 94 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 2-5 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Rodden Hive.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour, 2 Stanpit.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Poole Harbour, 1-2 Christchurch Hbr.
Goshawk - 2 Poole Harbour.

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Brownsea Island.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Chiffchaff - 176 Piddle Valley RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Piddle Valley RS.
Barred Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.
Marsh Tit - 3+ Pamphill.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.

Friday 25th September 2026

Goosander - 2 Poole Harbour (South Deep).
Little Stint - 1 possible Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 6 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 19 Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 93 Brownsea Island, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Osprey - 1-3 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Rodden Hive.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Rodden Hive, 2 Stanpit, 2 Wareham Channel/Middlebere.
Red Kite - 5 Wyke Down, 2 Rodden Hive.
Meadow Pipit - c80 Hengistbury Hd, flock c45 Wyke Down.
Water Pipit - 1 possible over Piddle Valley RS.
Red-throated Pipit - 1 briefly over Portland Bill.
Yellow Wagtail - 3+ Hartland Moor.
House Martin - sample count of 2000 W in 30 minutes over Hengistbury, 2000+ Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Chiffchaff - 51 Piddle Valley RS, c15 Hengistbury Hd.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Cirl Bunting - 2 Durlston CP.

Thursday 24th September 2026

Wigeon - 101 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake.
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge.
Knot - 7 Wareham Channel, 2 Ferrybridge.
Green Sandpiper - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Wareham Channel.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor.
Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel, 2 Radipole Lake, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor.

Cattle Egret - 4 S of Dewlish House.
Spoonbill - 76 Brownsea Island, 4 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 N over Sutton Poyntz.
Marsh Harrier - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Hobby - 1 Arne (Hydes Heath).
Black Tern - 1 Poole Harbour.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Christchurch Hbr went up-valley.
Meadow Pipit - 57 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Hengistbury Hd RS, 1 Wareham Channel.
Redstart - 1 Coombe Heath, 1 West Compton.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Swyre.
Wheatear - 3 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Swyre.
Chiffchaff - 37 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd RS, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Swyre.
Firecrest - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Linnet - 130+ Hengistbury Hd RS.

Lesser Whitethroat, Swyre © Helen Wood

Spoonbill, Lodmoor © Helen Wood

Yellow Wagtail, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Wednesday 23rd September 2026

Brent Goose - 1 The Fleet (off Butterstreet).
Garganey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Knot - 27 Holes Bay, 10 Middlebere.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay, 1 West Bay.
Greenshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 1 The Fleet.
Dotterel - 1 recorded calling over Lytchett Matravers overnight.
Balearic Shearwater - 6 off Chesil Beach (Wyke Regis).
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 30 Wick Fields.
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 Canford Heath.
Meadow Pipit - c40 Christchurch Hbr.
Yellow Wagtail - 1+ Christchurch Hbr, 1+ Lodmoor.
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Stanpit.
Chiffchaff - 50 Piddle Valley RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Piddle Valley RS.
Whitethroat - 1 Maiden Castle.
Firecrest - 13 Christchurch Hbr.
Linnet - 82 Christchurch Hbr.

Tuesday 22nd September 2026

 Avocet - c.200 Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - juvenile Stilt pools Swineham

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Black-tailed Godwit - 3 Lodmoor

Glossy Ibis - 4 Postbox Pool Lodmoor, 1 Barn Bight Hengistbury Head, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 45 Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 2 Wareham Channel

Grey Heron - 18 west over Hengistbury Head

Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - G466 in Wareham Channel

Firecrest - 1 in garden Manor Road East Cliff Bournemouth

Redstart - 1 Durlston CP

Whinchat - 1Durlston CP