Friday 17th July 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham tidal flap

Knot - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Standpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 6 Lodmoor

Green Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields. 1 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Peaky Meade Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor

Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 19 Swineham Frome Meadows, 11 Christchurch Harbour

Great White Egret - 2 Swineham Curlews Pool

White tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel 

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Obs, 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 7 Swineham 4 at Stilt Pool and 3 at the point, 3 over Stanpit Marsh, 2 over Arne Moor, 1 Lodmoor

Yesterday: Lower piddle Valley Ringing Station (private) - 53 Sedge Warbler, 22 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Garden Warbler.

Barnacle Goose - Swineham ©  Garry Hayman

Yellow Wagtail - Swineham © Garry Hayman

Thursday 16th July 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton

Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea viewpoint

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juv Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 2 over Wareham town centre

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Yellow wagtail - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great Spotted Woodpecker
Private Garden Wareham © Clive Hargrave

Wednesday 15th July 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Scotland Farm Hartland Moor, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Little Ringed Plover - 10 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Marsh

Caspian Tern - 1 Flew north over Abbottsbury Swannery

Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Grasshopper Warbler - 13 ringed at Carey secret Garden, 2 Durlston CP

Whinchat - 1 Hengisbury Head

Yellow Wagtail - 5 Hegisbury Head, 1 Durlston CP

Black-tailed Godwit - Middlebere © Garry Hayman

Tuesday 14th July 2026

Quail  -  2 West Compton, 1 Wareham Common

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside, 1 over Norden

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Standpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge Bay

Redstart - 1 juv Wick fields Christchurch

Yesterday: White-crowned Sparrow - an unconfirmed report of one at Hengisbury Head, as per bird sightings apps.

Mistle Thrush - Middlebere © Garry Hayman

Monday 13th July 2026

Mandarin - 1 fem Hatch Pond Poole

Balearic Shearwater - 8 off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Hbr

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Bight

Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Woodsford  

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields, 1 Woodsford 

Sunday 12th July 2026

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Hbr (summering bird)

Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel 

Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Hbr (Ashtray Meadow)

Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Hbr (Mother Siller's Channel)

Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Hbr (Grimmery Bank - Parky Meade)

Saturday 11th July 2026

Quail - 1 calling Down Farm

Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh (at the Wooden Bridge)

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - Christchurch Hbr (Holloways Dock), 1 Langton Herring

Roseate Tern - 1 adult Abbotsbury Swannery

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit March (Crouch Hill)

Serin - Portland Bill Obs.

Friday 10th July 2026

Mandarin - 1 female Hatch Pond Poole.

Cattle Egret - Christchurch Hbr.

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Avocet - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lytchett Bay

Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Serin - 1 male Portland Bill Obs but mobile.

Late News from Yesterday

Common Quail - 1 over Lytchett Bay (01:58hrs on NocMig recording)

Thursday 9th July 2026

Little Ringed Plover - juvenile on the 'Scarlet Darter' pond Silverlake 

Serin - male again in Portland Bird Observatory garden

Wednesday 8th July 2026

 Quail - 1 east cliffs Portland

Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 1 still at Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge

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

Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Lytchett Fields

Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Ferrybridge in he evening

Balearic Shearwater - at lest 10 still off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon

Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Common

Serin - 1 in Portland Bird Observatory garden

Tuesday 7th July 2026

Quail - 2 at Knowlton

Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 1 still at Ferrybridge 

Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Balearic Shearwater - 7 still off Portland Bill

Black Tern - 1 at Ashtree Meadows Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere from Avocet Hide, 7 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Swineham GPs

White-tailed Eagle G463 - active in Wareham Channel all morning

Hobby - 1 over Swineham GP

Monday 6th July 2026

 Avocet - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 1 still Chesil Centre Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 1 seen from Crouch Hill Christchurch

Black-tailed Godwit - c.20 Brownsea Lagoon

Common Sandpiper - 3 Longham Lakes

Spotted Redshank - 2 from Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon

Red Kite - 1 over Lytchett Matravers, 1 Longham Lakes

Bee-eater - 1 heard near Weston Road Portland

Sunday 5th July 2026

Whimbrel - 1-2 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holme Lane gravel pit.
Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 over Wimborne.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Canford Heath, 1 Piddle Valley ringing station.

Spotted Flycatcher, Canford Heath © Janet Panter.

Saturday 4th July 2026

Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
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

Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Wareham Channel.
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

Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor

Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Past Portland bill

Black Tern Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

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

Common Sandpiper - 1 Parky Meade Rail Christchurch Harbour

Manx Shearwater - 5000+ mostly east off Portland Bill, 2000 + off West Bexington, 200 off Ferrybidge

Balearic Shearwater - 70  mostly going east off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 7 Wareham Common

Late News: Black Kite - 1 Blandford St Mary's on Friday 19th June

Starling - Bestwalls Meadows Swineham 
© GarryHayman

Sunday 21st June 2026

Quail - 1 possibly 2 at West Compton

Mandrain Duck - 13 over Shillingstone Recreation Ground

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Green Sandpiper - Wick Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 

Red Kite - 1 Over Bennetts Water Gardens, 1 over Coburg Rd Dorchester

Red backed Shrike - 1 female Swineham Gravel Pit initially seen from BoPH bird boat

Red backed Shrike - Swineham GP
© Trevor Warwick

Saturday 20th June 2026

Quail - 2 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Cheselbourne

Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge 

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Bay and then at the back of Sherford Pools, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hoopoe - 1 In private garden Swanage

Yesterday: 100 Manx Shearwater, 5 Balearic Shearwater and 2 Arctic Skua off Portland Bill

Nightjar - Tadnoll & Winfrith NR DWT
© Steve Carey

Friday 19th June 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton heard calling

Cuckoo - 1 Arne Moor

Whimbrel - 1 Fisherman's Bank Christchurch Harbour

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Swineham Point

Storm Petrel - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bill overnight

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Dorset side of River Avon  by the causeway

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Corfe Mullen

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Over Combe Heath seen from Middlebere NT Hide

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery in the afternoon

Thursday 18th June 2026

 Barnacle Goose - 3 Woodsford Castle

Quail - 1 heard Tarrant Rushton airfield

Black -tailed Godwit - 10 Christchurch Harbour

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 briefly Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour

Wednesday 17th June 2026

 Quail - 1 again at north west end of Tarrant Rushton airfield

Avocet - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Shipstal Point RSPB Arne

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Marsh Harrier - 3 Swineham

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel and female G466 gave flight views to the Summer Safari Cruise