Monday 6th July 2026
Sunday 5th July 2026
Saturday 4th July 2026
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.
Friday 3rd July 2026
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 |
Friday 26th June 2026
Thursday 25th June 2026
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Dipper - 2 on R Lim in Lyme Regis
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
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
Monday 22nd June 2026
| Starling - Bestwalls Meadows Swineham © GarryHayman |
Sunday 21st June 2026
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| Red backed Shrike - Swineham GP © Trevor Warwick |
Saturday 20th June 2026
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| Nightjar - Tadnoll & Winfrith NR DWT © Steve Carey |
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Friday 12th June 2026
Thursday 11th June 2026
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
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
Monday 8th June 2026
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
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| Marsh Tit Silverlake © Rich Stephenson Bittern. Lodmoor © Phil Cheesman Sand Martin. Silverlake © Rich Stephenson |
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







