Thursday 10th October 2024

Goosander - 14 into Roost at Silverlake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank -1 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham
Greenshank - 5 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham
Spoonbill - 35 Wareham Valley, 5 Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 26 Hegisbury Head, 23 East Holme
Great White Egret - 1 to roost at Swineham Gravel pit 
Hobby - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham
Bearded Tit - 4 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham
House Martin - 30 Maiden Castle
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Reap Lane Portland, 3 Portland Obs, 1 Wyke Regis, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Holloway's Dock Christchurch Harbour
Black Redstart - 1 Thumb Lane Portland
Wheatear - 1 Bridport Golf Course
13 Pied Wagtail - 350 to roost at Hatch Pond, 28 Alba Challow Hill Corfe Castle, 20 Stanpit Marsh




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Wednesday 9th October 2024

Pochard - 30 Silverlake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Ruff - 2  Lower Piddle Valley and Curlew Pool Swineham
Spotted Redshank - 7 Mouth of River Frome, 2 Stilt Pool, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 6 Swineham, 1 Lytchett Bay
Bittern - 1 Swineham Gravel Pit
Cattle Egret - 3 Holmebridge
Great White Egret - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Swineham Gravel Pit, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Middlebere Poole Harbour
Red Kite - 2 over Wareham
Merlin - 2 Middlebere Moor
Yellow Browed Warbler - 4 Thumb Lane Portland, 1 Lodmor RSPB, 1 Radipole RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Redhill Common
Ring Ouzel - 3 Godlingston Gully Ulwell, 1 Thumb Lane Portland
Brambling - 1 South Haven Studland

Yesterday: Water Pipit between Church Cove and the lighthouse Portland



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Tuesday 8th October 2024

Brent Goose - 7 Brands Bay
Pintail - 4 Brands Bay
Great-crested Grebe - 46 Brands Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 48 Brownsea Lagoon
Marsh Harrier - 4 Swineham
Peregrine - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Yesterday: -

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Swineham
Short-eared Owl - 1 south of Corfe Castle

Little Owl, Portland © Phil Cheeseman


Firecrest, Portland © Phil Cheeseman


Black-tailed Godwit, Lytchett Bay © Peter John Corbin





 

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Monday 7th October 2024

Wigeon - 782 Holes Bay
Goosander - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Black-necked grebe - 1 still Longham Lakes
Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Bramble Bush Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Spotted Redshank - 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sandwich Tern - 6 Bramble Bush Bay
Cormorant - 300 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 73 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Shipstal Point, 1 Lytchett Fields
Cattle Egret - 15 Wick
Great White Egret - 9 Longham Lakes, 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Kingfisher - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Woodpecker - 1 near Stone Bench, Upton CP
Hobby - 1 over Old Hill, Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Thumb Lane, 1 Southwell, 1 The Hump, 1 Portland Bird Obs
Firecrest - 1 Wick
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 still Portland Bird Obs

Yesterday: - \

Firecrest - 7 various locations Portland 

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Mark Churchill


Grey Wagtail, Mudeford © Andy Enefer


Balck-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Annabel Sharpe

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Sunday 6th October 2024

Eider - 5 Wareham Channel
Goosander - 19 Silverlake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still Longham Lakes
Avocet  - c30 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere. 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1st year, from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Black Tern - 1 juv down The Fleet from Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Sth from Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 65 still Brownsea Lagoon, 3 in channel, Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 11 Wick
Great White Egret - 7 Longham Lakes, 1 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Mudeford, 1 Furzey Island, 1 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Avalanche Road Hump, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Culverwell
Firecrest - Portland Bird Observatory
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bird Observatory
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 adult Male at Portland Bird Observatory, 1 juv. still Culverwell

Yesterday: -

Ruddy Shelduck - 3 Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 45 Lodmoor RSPB
Kestrel - 9 Pentridge Down
Woodlark - 3 Pentridge Down


Golden Plovers, Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler


Red-breasted Flycatcher juvenile, Culverwell © Steven Carey


Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

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Saturday 5th October 2024

Red-legged Partridge - 6 NW Southill
Grey Partridge - 2 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
Brent Geese - 7 Stanpit Marsh
Garganey - 1 Juv. Coward's Marsh
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Avocet - 1 in Rock Lea Channel
Ruff - 2 Lower Piddle Floods
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 24 over Turlin Shore, 8 Wick Water Meadows, 7 Radipole RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Middlebere, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay
Red Kite - 1 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Shipstal, Arne RSPB, 1 Hengistbury, 1 near Manor French Farm
Merlin - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Hobby - 1 Juv over Old Hill, Portland, 1 over Portland Bill, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 calling Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 calling Thumb Lane
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory, 1 near Manor French Farm, Blandford
Ring Ouzel - 2 Top Fields, Portland Bill, 1 between Old Hill & Verne Hill Road, Portland
Redwing - 7 near Loverly Lane, Didlington
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor, Portland
Whinchat - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Wheatear - 8 Crouch Hill, 2 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Witchampton


 

Hobby, Silverlake © Simon Craft


Chiffchaff, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney


Black-necked Grebe, Longham Lakes © Gary Holderness

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Friday 4th October 2024

Goosander -  14 Silverlake this evening, 1 on R Frome at Woodsford
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Golden Plover - 300+ Pentridge Down
Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Knot - 5 Brand's Bay, 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Fleet
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Greenshank -  1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 75 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Hampreston fields
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Meyrick Park GC, 1 over Longham Lakes
Short-eared Owl - 1 West Bay
Merlin - 1 West Bay
Woodlark - 7 Pentridge Down
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Littlesea Woods near water tank
Redwing - 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Yellow Wagtail - 1 West Bay
Crossbill - 2 Pentridge Down

Yesterday : 2 Yellow-browed Warblers on Portland (PBO and Sweethill)

Common Scoter, Shell Bay © Will Bown

 

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Thursday 3rd October 2024

Goosander -  1 on R Frome at Woodsford
Common or Pallid Swift - 1 Wick Fields
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 27 left Pergins Island roost in Holes Bay this morning
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Goshawk - 1  juvenile seen briefly in Poole Harbour north
Pallid Harrier - a probable ringtail over Hengistbury this morning
Red Kite - 6 Badbury Rings
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 trapped & ringed at Careys Secret Garden, 1 Moonfleet
Firecrest - 4 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 3+ at Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Cogden Beach
Ring Ouzel - 1 Ballard Down this morning, 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Ballard Down
Hawfinch - 1 over PBO

Vis mig at West Bay included -  a ticking Bunting most resembling Rustic and a possible Turtle Dove. Also a Red Kite, Redwing, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Woodlark, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jays, 1000 Linnets, 400 Swallows, 1900 House Martins and 140 Meadow Pipits.

Yesterday : a  Redwing over Litton Cheney and 6 over Poole Harbour

Kestrel, Woodville © John Bishop

 
Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown



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Wednesday 2nd October 2024

Goosander -  13 Silverlake (East Lake) this evening, 4 on R Frome at Woodsford this morning
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle Valley floods, 1 Woodsford
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank -  17 in Poole Harbour area
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Cattle Egret - 25 roosted on Pergins Island in Holes Bay last night, 1 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Brand's Bay
Marsh Harrier - 20 left roost in Poole Harbour this morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Thumb Lane on Portland, 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Firecrest - 2 Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Ballard Down

Yesterday : a Short-eared Owl at West Bay

Wheatear, Crouch Hill (Stanpit) © Clinton Whale


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Tuesday 1st October 2024

Garganey - 1 on Decoy Pond at Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Ruff - 3 Swineham
Sanderling - 21 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Greenshank -  2 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 seen again in Holes Bay from Upton CP lookout
Glossy Ibis - 1 flew down Lorton Valley in direction of Lodmoor this evening
Spoonbill - 55 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Holmebridge, 1 Swineham
Great White Egret - 1 Shipstal (Arne RSPB), 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel
Honey-buzzard - 1 headed south over Hengistbury Head mid-morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at the Carey Secret Garden
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 heard at Abbotsbury Swannery

Greenshank, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

 

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Monday 30th September 2024

Goosander - 1 Silverlake, 4 over Lytchett Fields
 Red-breasted Merganser - 7 Poole Harbour
 Pallid Swift - possible past Hengistbury Head
Avocet - c.130 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Caspian Gull - 1 on flooded fields West Bay
Forster's Tern - returning 3rd winter (north west) Holes Bay
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor 'hump' into Weymouth Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 10 flew past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick Water Meadows
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Merlin - 1 Durlston Head
Short-eared Owl - 1 flew over Brownsea Island Lagoon
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
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Sunday 29th September 2024

 Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Studland Bay
Avocet - 22 Middlebere
Black-tailed Godwit - c.510 Middlebere, 61 Brands Bay
Knot - 4 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Chard Junction GP
Greenshank - 2 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay
Little Tern - 1 Brands Bay
Black Tern - 1 Brands Bay, 4 Wareham Channel
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston, 1 Wareham Channel
Arctic Skua - 1 past Durlston
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon NT
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 2 Middlebere
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere
Woodlark - 1 over Pentridge Down
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Saturday 28th September 2024

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 27 Lodmoor
Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 71 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 3 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay, 4 Shipstal
Balearic Shearwater - 40 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Wick Water Meadows
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Cerne Abbas, 2 Shipstal
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Chiffchaff - 132 ringed at Lytchett Heath and 143 at Carey's Secret Garden
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Godlingston Hill
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Observatory
Whinchat - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
 Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Fancy's Farm Portland, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 15 Stanpit

Peregrine, Durlston  © Will Bown




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Friday 27th September 2024

 Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake
Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Brownsea
Curlew - 86 Brands Bay
Knot - 4 Brownsea, 1 Brands Bay
Little Stint - 1 Silverlake
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Jack Snipe - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods
(Bonaparte's Gull - possible on Brownsea Lagoon)
Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 1 Puddletown Water Meadows
Osprey - 1 briefly settled in a tree by River Frome at Frampton
Honey Buzzard - 2 flew out to sea Studland Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay
Redstart - 1 Barleycrates Lane, Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 in a Poundbury Garden
Wheatear - 1 Silverlake
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Thursday 26th September 2024

Balearic Shearwater - c100 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lower Piddle Floods
Glossy Ibis - over Radipole lake 
Honey Buzzard - 1 flew out to sea Swanage
Hobby - 2 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Coward's Marsh
RED_FOOTED FALCON - 1, 1st/cy Lodmoor RSPB
Golden Plover - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Stint - 1 Silverlake
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle Floods
Greenshank - 4 Lower Piddle Floods
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman


Green Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman








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Wednesday 25th September 2024

Cattle Egret - 18 east over Swineham Pt, 4 Wick meadows, 3 Stilt Pools Best wall Meadows, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 36 Poole Hbr, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Osprey - 1 juv Wareham Channel
Ringed Plover - 90 Stanpit Marsh, 28 Fisherman's Dock sea wall Poole.
Little Stint - 1 Silverlake
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Common Sandpiper - 3 Silverlake, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Floods
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 over Oakdale (NocMig), 1 Stanpit Marsh
Meadow Pipit - 5000+ over Portland, 70 Stanpit Marsh, 60 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow Wagtail - 10 Hengistbury Hd. 
Wheatear - 5 Baiter Park, 3 Ferrybridge
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill
Blackcap - c1000 Portland, 15 Hengistbury Hd, 4 PCW Drain Poole
Chiffchaff - c1000 Portland, 60 Stanpit Marsh, 50 PCW Drain Poole, 45 Hengistbury Hd.
Willow Warbler - 3 Wick, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman


Ruff - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman























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Tuesday 24th September 2024

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Brand's Bay
Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake
Balearic Shearwater - 20 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 6 Hartland, 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Bestwall Meadows
Great White Egret - 7 Middlebere, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spoonbill - 60+ Brownsea Lagoon, 22 Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 NE over Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery flew down the Fleet.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 2 Goathorn / Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 imm Lower Piddle Floods
Ringed Plover - 60 Hengistbury Hd.
Golden Plover - 4 Brand's Bay, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lytchett Bay (NocMig)
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Common Sandpiper - 4 Silverlake, 1 Holes Bay
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lower Piddle Floods
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Silverlake
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 on the Stilt Pools 
Swallow - 160 Hengistbury Hd.
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow Wagtail - 6 Lower Piddle Floods, 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Hd,
Redwing  - 1 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes
Song Thrush - 6 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes
Chiffchaff - 80 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Swanage YHA.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill
Reed Bunting - 14 Hengistbury Hd.

Garganey - Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown




















Yellow-legged Gull -  Stilt Pools - Meadows © Gary Hayman




















Spotted Flycatcher - Swanage YHA © Gary Hayman











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Monday 23rd September 2024

Common Scoter - 10 past Hengistbury Hd.
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Durlston CP.
Manx Shearwater - 2 past Durlston CP.
Balearic Shearwater - 9 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 4 Wick Meadows
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Brand's Bay, 1+ Lodmoor RSPB.
Spoonbill - 74 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Stanpit Marsh.
Goshawk - 1 imm fem Pentridge Down.
Osprey - 1 Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 over Lower Piddle Floods
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Hengistbury HHC Sandbar.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Silverlake.
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lower Piddle Floods, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hatch Pond
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 10+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Tree Pipit - 2 Pentridge Down
Yellow Wagtail - 6 Durlston CP, 4 over Hengistbury Hd, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Pentridge Down
Redstart - 3 Pentridge Down
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Pentridge Down
Chiffchaff - 90 Hengistbury Hd, 22 Middlebere, 11 Wick.
Willow Warbler -1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Middlebere.
Firecrest - 7 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

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Sunday 22nd September 2024

Common Scoter - 1 Swineham GPs on Main Pit
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 24 Brownsea Lagoon
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 on Stilt Pools at Swineham, but not seen this evening
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 3 Silverlake, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Wood Sandpiper - 1 briefly at Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 briefly at Silverlake, 1 Lower Piddle Valley                 Floods (Swineham)
Spotted Redshank - 8 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  11 Middlebere, 7 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - c70 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 near Round Island (Poole Harbour), 1 Silverlake
Honey-buzzard - 1 headed north over East Cliffs on Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Lower Piddle Valley (Swineham), 1 Stanpit
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Old Hill on Portland
Firecrest - 1 Cogden Beach
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at PBO
Whinchat - 1 Silverlake
Yellow Wagtail - 24 Stanpit, 3 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)

Yesterday : a Red Kite at Athelhampton
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Saturday 21st September 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Stint - 1 Tidmoor Point
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  23 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Brand's Bay
Caspian Gull - 2cy on Stilt Pools at Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill (18 past yesterday)
Spoonbill - 73 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 7 Wick, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Tidmoor
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 heard in Littlesea Woods (The Fleet)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male at Shillingstone in field opposite railway station, 1 at PBO

Yesterday : a Wryneck heard at Arne RSPB in woods at start of the Shipstal Trail.

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Friday 20th September 2024

Garganey -  Female on South Marsh (Stanpit)
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 4 Hengistbury Head, 2 Stanpit, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay again from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Snipe  - 1 Holes Bay (SW), the first of the season
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay (NE), 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere at high tide, 1 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  15 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Middlebere
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 66 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Christchurch Harbour flying upriver
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 3 Priory Marsh (Christchurch)
Hobby - 1 at Broadmayne (over lake by Watergates Lane)
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Tidmoor Point
Ring Ouzel - 1 briefly on Batters at Hengistbury
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Middlebere
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Yellow Wagtail - 8 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Ringstead Bay

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Thursday 19th September 2024

Swift - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Ballard Down
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Bight
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpipper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Stint - 1 Swineham (Stilt Pools)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay (SW)
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour
Merlin - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Ballard Down
Hirundines  - 16,680 counted over Ballard Down this morning including 10,810 House Martins, 7,500 House Martins and 4,600 Swallows over Hengistbury
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 over Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 31 over Hengistbury Head, c18 Stanpit Marsh

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Wednesday 18th September 2024

Common Scoter - 4 West off Durlston CP
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 on long Groyne, Hengistbury, 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still on pools near The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank - 4 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB, 1 again Lytchett Fields, 1 from     Stone Bench, Upton CP
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1cy Western Scrapes, Lodmoor RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Hengistbury
Spoonbill - 2 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 still Lodmoor RSPB, 2 high over Swanage Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 over Arne Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Crown Estate Field, Portland, 1 ringtail off Hengistbury
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red-footed Falcon - 1 possible Juv towards Clayhanger Farm
Merlin - 1 over Hengistbury
Swallow - 4,500 over Hengistbury
House Martin - 2,600 over Hengistbury
Firecrest - 3 in Wood, Hengistbury, 1 in Youth Hostel Garden, Swanage
Yellow Wagtail - 19 Crouch Hill, 16 over hengistbury Head, 11 Durlston CP
TAWNY PIPIT - 1 on Abbotsbury Beach
Tree Pipit - 2 over Hengistbury

Yesterday: -

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Arne RSPB

Chiffchaff, Portesham © Jayson Grove


Little Stint, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman


Starling, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

 

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Tuesday 17th September 2024

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Lake. Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Fields
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Goathorn
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Kingfisher - 1 Longham Lakes
Wryneck - 1 Godlingston Gap
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields
Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st winter, still Lytchett Fields
House Martin - 260 East from Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 ringed at Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Hatch Pond, 2 Goathorn
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Crouch Hill
Wheatear - 4 Hartland Moor, 3 Crouch Hill, 2 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock
Yellow Wagtail - 7 before Stud Farm, Soldier's Road, Hartland, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Meadow Pipit - 226 over Lytchett Fields

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 44 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Seacombe (1 adult, 2 juvenile)
Corn Bunting - 15 Wyke Down


Knot, Ferrybridge © Will Bown


Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stanpit Marsh © Allan Hansford


Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

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Monday 16th September 2024

Avocet - 50+ Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Billy Winter's, Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Fields, 1 Hartland Moor
Great White Egret - 2 still Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail in off sea, Abbotsbury Swannery
Kingfisher - 1 Ferrybridge
Hobby - 1 over South Lake, Longham Lakes
Red-backed Shrike - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Hartland Moor
Redstart - 2 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 2 Lytchett Fields
Wheatear - 3 over Portesham, 2 Hartland Moor
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwits, Ferrybridge © Will Bown


Bearded Reedling, Radipole RSPB © Maurice Whitney


Red-backed Shrike, Lytchett Fields © Martin Wood

 

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Sunday 15th September 2024

Mandarin - 2 still Poole Park
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 699 Holes Bay
Knot - 3 Brands Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Pools
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Pools
Greenshank - 7 Brands Bay, 1 from Stone Bench, Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 6 Salt Hurns, Stanpit, 5 Hartland Heath, 1 Bill Hill, Southwell, Portland
Great White Egret - 1 over Wick
Osprey - 4 from Hydes Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 from Hydes Heath, Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 Moonfleet, The Fleet, 1 Hartland Heath
Hobby - 2 again over Longham Lakes
Red-backed Shrike - 1 Lytchett Fields
Woodlark - 8 Hartland Heath
Firecrest - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Holes Bay, 1 in nets Culverwell, Portland
Tree Pipit - 1 over Wick


Stonechat, Canford Heath © William Morris


Mandarin, Poole Park © Clinton Whale


Buzzard, Upton © Graham Nash

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Saturday 14th September 2024

Brent Goose - 1 Ferrybridge
Mandarin Duck - 2 Poole Park
Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham
Sanderling - 8 Ferrybridge
Spoonbill - 49 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 34 Hartland Moor, 4 over Durlston CP, 4 Hengisbury Head, 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 1 Sandford
Osprey - 3 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB, 1 Ltchett Bay, 1 Morden Bog
Honey Buzzard - 1 East Weares Portland
Hobby - 2 Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 10-20 Lambert Castle
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell Portland, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 2 Greenlands Farm Studland, 1 St Aldhelms Head



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Friday 13th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 St Aldhelms Head
Avocet - 118 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Knot - 5 Middlebere Channel
Ruff - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham
Spoonbill - 52 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Hengisbury Head
Osprey - 7 Poole Harbour
Wryneck - 1 Bradbury Rings
Garden Warbler - 1 Reap Lane Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Reap Lane Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Knowle Hill Church Knowle
Whinchat - 11 Hartland Moor, 1 Barn Field Hengisbury Head


Whinchat  - Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman





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Thursday 12th September 2024

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 9 Ferrybridge
Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brands Bay
Harrier sp - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge
Wryneck - 2 Wild Woodbury 1 of which was trapped and ringed
Garden Warbler - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wheatear - 3 Peveril Point

Sparrowhawk - Blandford St Mary ©  Alison Palmer 


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Wednesday 11th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 Durlston CP trapped & ringed
Swift - 1 Durlston CP
Ruff - 2 Swineham Point, 1 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Stilt Pool
Spotted Redshank - 5 poss 7 Middlebere Channel
Caspian Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB by the hump
Spoonbill - 37 Brownsea Laggoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Wareham Causeway
Great White Egret - 1 River Stour Bryanston Sch, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 4 Wareham Channel from Russell Quay, 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Swineham, 1 Kimmeridge 
Red Kite - 3 Iwerne Courtney
White tailed Eagle - 1 over Spetisbury
Woodlark - 9 South Middlebere, 6 Silverlake
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 2 Hengisbury Head

Peregrin Falcon - Dorchester © Alan Membury


















Great white Egret - Lodmoor RSPB Marcus Head

 ©  Marcus Head



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Tuesday 10th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 Cogden
Common Sandpiper -  2 Stanpit, 1 PC World Drain
Green Sandpiper - 1 Doddings Farm CBs
Greenshank -  2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Caspian Gull - 1cy briefly on East Cliffs (Portland) this afternoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Durlston CP
Sooty Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 1 Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 10 Middlebere, 1 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB)
Great White Egret - 3 in Barn Bight (Christchuch Harbour)
Cattle Egret - 11 Wick, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
PALLID HARRIER - likely 2cy male seen in flight around Portland Bill this morning but not reported since
Goshawk - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Hobby - 1 Brand's Bay
Firecrest - 3 Wild Woodbury DWT
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Wild Woodbury DWT
Whinchat - 2 Wild Woodbury DWT
Ortolan Bunting - 1 in Crown Estate Field at Portland Bill

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