Saturday 31st October 2026

Scaup - 1 drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 2 over Hengistbury Hd.
Spoonbill - 42 Shipstal Point
Red Kite - 1 Charborough Park, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Christchurch Hbr.
Grey Phalarope - 2 north past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1CY Stanpit Marsh
Stock Dove - 179 Hengistbury Hd, 35 St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Woodpigeon - c3000 St. Aldhelm's Hd. 842 Hengistbury Hd.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Pallas's Warbler - 1 East end of Weston Rd. Portland
Ring Ouzel -  1 Kimmeridge, 1 Southwell Portland.
Fieldfare - c50 Riversmeet Meadow
Black Redstart - 1 Little Ship garden Portland, 1 around DG Building
Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Snow Bunting - near Bill Toilet block
Cirl Bunting - 4 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Fieldfare - Middlebere © Aiden Brown






















Sparrowhawk - North Dorset © Tim Balmer




















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Friday 30th October 2026

Dark-bellied Brent Geese - 50 past Hengistbury Hd.
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Castle 
Cattle Egret - 6 Wareham Common
Great White Egret - 1 Lower Piddle Valley
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Piddle Valey, 1 Christchurch Hbr
Merlin - 2 Middlebere (Chasing Fieldfare)
Ruff - 1 Swineham Pt.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere Channel
Grey Phalarope - 1 in Shell Bay
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lower Piddle Floods
Spotted Redshank - 3 Swineham Pt.
Little Gull - 1 1st/w South Haven
Caspian Gull - 1 2nd/w Knighton Heath GP.
Stock Dove -190 West Bay, 33 over Hengistbury Hd.
Woodpigeon - 17,982 over Poole Hbr, 6000 West Bay, 1610 over Hengistbury Hd.
Jackdaw - 500 West Bay
Woodlark - 3 over West Bay
Starling - 600 West Bay
Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne Moat Portland.
Fieldfare - 100 Middlebere
Water Pipit - 1trapped ringed  Lytchett Fields
Black Redstart - 2 Chiswell (Little Ship)
Siberian Stonechat - 1 1st/w male Weston Street Portland but mobile.
Brambling - 1 West Bay
Hawfinch - 1 Charmouth (over Stone Barrow Hill, 1 Norden (Langton Wallis Heath)
Linnet - 465 West Bay, 202 over Hengistbury Hd.
Goldfinch - 606 over Hengistbury Hd, 256 West Bay
Snow Bunting - 1 Portland on East Cliff
Cirl Bunting - 1 pos 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

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Thursday 29th October 2026

Common Scoter - 3 Watch Channel
Red-throated Diver - 1 Studland Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Jerry's Point, 1 Studland Bay, 1 from Crabber's Warf Portland.
Cattle Egret - 31 Hengistbury Hd .am, 19 Portesham
Great White Egret - 1 Tidmoor spit.
Spoonbill - 6 Shipstal Point
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Studland Bay, 1 off Jerry's Point
Red Kite - 1 Cerne Abbas, 1 Swyre Head
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Brand's Bay
Grey Phalarope - 2 Portland off East Cliff 
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Gull - 2 past Hengistbury Hd.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Woodlark - 2 Portland Bill
Swallow - 3 SE Tidmoor, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne Moat Portland
Black Redstart - 2 Chiswell
Brambling - 1 over Hengistbury Hd.
Snow Bunting - 1 Portland Bill
Little Bunting - 1 trapped/ringed Timor a.m.


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Wednesday 28th October 2026

Scaup - 1 drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 3 Arne Bay Poole Hbr.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Osprey Quay Portland, 1 Poole Hbr.
Cattle Egret - 21 Portesham, 7 East Holme
Spoonbill - 39 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 Cranborne, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Higher Charlton Down
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 off Jerry's Point, Studland.
Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Phalarope - 2 Chesil Cove
Little Gull - 4 off Avon Beach, 
Woodpigeon - 3400 West Bay, 2000+ over Ballard Down  (vismig)
Jackdaw - 111 West Bay (vismig)
Skylark - 852 West Bay  (vismig)
Sand Martin - 1 late individual Swanage.
Willow Warbler 1 ringed Carey Ringing Startion.
Starling - 325 West Bay  (vismig)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne Moat, 1 over Ballard Down
Black Redstart - 2 Chiswell (by Little Ship), 1 Hengistbury Hd. 
Brambling - 3 Charmouth
Chaffinch - 574 West Bay
Hawfinch 1 Charmouth
Snow Bunting - 1 East Cliff Portland Bill (by Stone Bench)
Cirl Bunting - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (1st record) 

Grey Phalarope - Chesil Cove ©David Camp





















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Tuesday 27th October 2024

Barnacle Goose - 5 in the fields between Silverlake and Woodsford
Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 5 Chesil Cove
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point Studland
Golden Plover - 20 nr Canford School
Grey Phalarope - 7 Chesil Cove off Quiddles Cafe, 1 Lynch Cove The Fleet, 1 Portland Bill flying east
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Gull - 4 of Durlston CP, 2 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 41 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 5 Holes Bay
White tailed Eagle - 2 Middlebere
Fieldfare - c100 Middlebere
Black Redstart - 2 behind The Little Ship Pub Chesil Cove
Hawfinch - 2 Durlston CP 
Snow Bunting 1 East Cliffs Portland Bill

Grey Wagtail - North Dorset © Tim Balmer


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Monday 26th October 2026

Scaup - 1 drake still at Abbotbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 1 Swanage Bay, 1 off Middle Beach Studland Bay
Grey Phalarope - 2 Lynch Cove The Fleet, 2 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Chesil Cove, 1 flew past Shell Bay, 1 West Bay below Rise Cafe
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Little Gull - 9 East Fleet, 7 Christchurch Harbour, 6 Chesil Cove, 1 off Branksome Chine, 1 Shell Bay, 1 Swanage Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 Swanage Bay

Carrion Crow © Tim Balmer


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Sunday 25th October 2026

Red-legged Partridge - 5 Radipole 
White -fronted Goose (Greenland) - 8 Flew up the Middlebere Channel
Common Scoter - 1 off Hengisbury Head, 1 Studland Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes South Lake
Grey Phalarope - 2 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Chapmans Pool, 1 off Fitzworth Poole Harbour, 1 West Bay, 1 Ferrybridge found dead
Little Gull - 30-40 off Avon Beach, 27 from Mudeford Quay, 15 off Branksome Chine, 3 Studland Bay, 3 North Haven, 3 Longham Lakes, 2 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay
Arctic Skua - 2 off  Branksome Chine, 1 Shell Bay flew west
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Hengisbury Head
Great Norther Diver - 4 from Billy Winters Portland Harbour, 2 Studland Bay, 1 off Branksome Chine
Cattle Egret - 25 Fordington Meadows 
Ring Ouzel - 1 in a private garden in Upton
Black Redstart - 1 Nr Ship Inn Weymouth
Water Pipit - 1 Radipole north screen
Snow Bunting - 1 still at East Cliffs Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - Fordington Meadows © Colin Chaney


 
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Saturday 24th October 2026

 Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Little Gull - 35 Kimmeridge Bay, 16+ Mudeford Quay, 5 Brands Bay, 2 off Durlston CP
Great Northern Diver - 2 off Billy Winters Portland Harbour
Leach's Petrel -  2 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 22 - Shipstal Point Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 9 Portesham
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Up Cerne
Red Kite - 2 Up Cerne
 
Teal - Middlebere ©  Garry Hayman


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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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





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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







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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



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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
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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


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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



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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








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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




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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









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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

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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







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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
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Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
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Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
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Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
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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 


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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


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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
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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



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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


 



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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



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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

 

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