Ringed Plover - 103 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 7 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 flushed by the White-tailed Eagle in the Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 released bird seem at the Warham Channel and over Hamworthy
Hobby - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Heath, 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Monday 15th August 2022
Sunday 14th August 2022
Saturday 13th August 2022
Friday 12th August 2022
Thursday 11th August 2022
Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Wheatear, Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale |
Tuesday 9th August 2022
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Tree Pipit, Wild Woodbury © Trevor Warrick |
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Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher,Thorncombe Woods © Trevor Warrick |
Monday 8th August 2022
Sunday 7th August 2022
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Grey Heron, Iford Weir Christchurch © Clinton Whale |
Saturday 6th August 2022
Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 10 over Brownsea Island lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - released birds seem over Littledown (Bournemouth), Piddle Valley, Wareham Channel and Morden Bog
Sedge Warbler - 300 Christchurch Harbour
Willow Warbler - 30 Christchurch Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit
Great Spotted Woodpecker, West Moors © Roy Nicklin |
Friday 5th August 2022
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, reported throughout day but flushed this evening
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 10 Brownsea Island
Hobby - 1 over Buckhorn Weston
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
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Linnet, Stanpit © Dave Hill |
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Little Egret, Stanpit © Dave Hill |
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Robin, Stanpit © Dave Hill |
Thursday 4th August 2022
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Honey Buzzard - Dorset undisclosed location ©Mike Coleman |
Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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Curlew - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale |
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Little Egrets - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale |
Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Spotted Flycatcher - Middlebere |
Monday 1st August 2022
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Little Grebe - Hengisbury Head ©Clinton Whale |
Sunday 31st July 2022
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere
Greenshank - 12 Middlebere
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Middlebere
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 6 Arne RSPB, 3 over Swineham Point
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Yesterday: -
Osprey - 1 migratory bird, Morden Bog
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Linnets, Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale |
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Green Sandpiper, Middlebere ©Mark Wright |
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Little Terns, Ferrybridge ©Angela Thomas |
Saturday 30th July 2022
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Marsh Meadow Pool, Abbotsbury Swannery
Whimbrel - 14 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 3 Marsh Meadow Pool, Abbotsbury, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 released bird Wareham Channel
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arne RSPB
Yesterday: -
Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Arctic Skua - 2 (1 Dark, 1 Light Phase) off Durlston CP
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Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Greenshank at Abbotsbury © Steve Groves |
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Spotted Flycatcher, Arne RSPB © Kate Plater |
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Common Tern, Arne RSPB © Kate Plater |
Friday 29th July 2022
Greenshank - 6 Middlebere
Meditteranean Gull - 500+ off Portland Bill
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 11 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 42 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 47 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 East of Lower Bockhampton
Osprey - 1 SE over Bridging Camp, The Fleet
Red Kite - 1 Crete Bottom
White-tailed Eagle - 1 released bird Wareham Channel
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 East Fleet
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Littlesea, The Fleet
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Grey Heron, Longham Lakes © Dave Hill |
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Little Stint, Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman |
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Goldfinch, Hamworthy ©Tina Dawkins |
Thursday 28th July 2022
Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 30+ Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 9 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holes Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Blandford
White-tailed Eagle - 1 released immature Wareham Channel
Yesterday: -
Oystercatcher - 93 Stanpit Marsh
Willow Warbler - 10 Portland Bird Observatory
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Great White Egrets, Lodmoor © Adrian Groves |
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Green Woodpecker, Longham Lakes © Sam Staines |
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Water Rail with chick, Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman |
Wednesday 27th July 2022.
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields, 5 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 8 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields.
Sanderling - 7+ Ferrybridge, 19 Shell Beach.
Manx Shearwater - 30 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 78 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 5 Lodmoor.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Brownsea Island in the morning, 1 Wareham Channel later.
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Lesser Black-backed Gull, Merley © Roger Peart. |
Tuesday 26th July 2022.
Manx Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 18 past Portland Bill.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Yellow-legged Gull - 8 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Bere Regis (Wild Woodbury).
Dipper - 1 near Sherborne.
Crossbill, Wareham Forest yesterday © Winter and Aspen Stobart. |
Crossbill, Wareham Forest yesterday © Winter and Aspen Stobart. |
Monday 25th July 2022
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, still on Postbox Pool
Knot - 1 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Hengistbury, 1 Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Hengistbury
Sunday 24th July 2022
Sanderling - 12 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit, 1 Hengistbury
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 4 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 6 Portland Bill
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit
Saturday 23rd July 2022.
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Whimbrel - 2 Middlebere, 9 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 9 Lytchett Fields, 3 Lytchett Fields.
Sanderling - 11 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Parley, 5 Lytchett Fields, 5 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields.
Manx Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel early, 1 Lytchett Fields later (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Mediterranean Gull - 750 Portland Bill.
Yellow-legged Gull - 4 Portland Bill, 10 Swineham.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Lytchett Heath, 2 Stanpit.
Crossbill - 4 over Lytchett Fields.
Friday 22nd July 2022.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit in breeding plumage.
Knot - 1 Rodden Hive.
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit.
Little Stint - 1 Hengistbury.
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Island.
Sanderling - 11 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Rodden Hive.
Red Kite - 1 Cheselbourne.
Hobby - 1 Herbury.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Broadmayne (Conygar).
Black Redstart - 1 Poole Quay.
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Pheasant, Stanpit © Clinton Whale |
Thursday 21st July 2022
Sanderling - 6 Ferrybridge
Yellow-legged Gull - 3 Portland Bill
Little Tern - total of 55/60 fledglings this season at the Chesil Recovery Project, Ferrybridge
Glossy Ibis - 2 commuting between Abbotsbury Swannery and Lodmoor RSPB
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Garden Warbler - 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Sedge Warbler - 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Wednesday 20th July 2022
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 11 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay
Green Sandpiper - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Lytchett Bay
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 juveniles at Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery on Meadows Pool
Great White Egret - 8 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
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Ringed Plover and Dunlin, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale |
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Sandwich Tern, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale |
Tuesday 19th July 2022
Monday 18th July 2022
Cattle Egret - 1 over West Bexington
Sunday 17th July 2022
Saturday 16th July 2022
Manx Shearwater - 4 west Portland Bill