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| Grey Partridge, Dorchester © Simon |
Monday 18th May 2026
Sunday 17th May 2026
Saturday 16th May 2026
Quail - 1 Calling sporadically early this morning, near St Aldhelms Head
Cuckoo - 1 Longham lakes
Arctic Skua - 1 East off Chesil Beach viewed from Camp Road
White Stork - 1 River Frome East of Wool
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Swineham
Whinchat - 1 Male by Bridging Camp Chickerall.
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| Cuckoo, Morden Bog © R. Stephenson |
Friday 15th May 2026
Thursday 14th May 2026
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Roseate Tern - 4 Brownsea Lagoon with 1 seen early evening fishing at the harbour entrance, South side.
Bonapartes Gull - 1 1st Summer bird Abbotsbury Swannery Embankment
White Stork - 1 Cowards Marsh
Cattle Egret - 4 Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Avon Heath Country Park
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog
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| Goldcrest © John Bishop |
Wednesday 13th May 2026
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 Mudeford/Hengistbury
Sanderling - 16 Mudeford/Hengistbury, 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Little Tern- 8 Hengistbury Head
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery on embayment this evening
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 14 past Hengistbury this morning, 118 Mudeford Quay this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wick
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| Marsh Harrier, Middlebere © Alan Membury |
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| Lapwing, Middlebere © Alan Membury |
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| Osprey, Middlebere © Alan Membury |
Tuesday 12th May 2026
Monday 11th May 2026
Cuckoo - 1 Hyde Bog, 1 Longham Lakes
Whimbrel - 6 Frome Valley, 5 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay NW
Sanderling - 6 Knoll Beach (Studland), 3 Stanpit Marsh
White Stork - 1 over Wareham
Night-heron - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, flew NW towards Radipole this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Stoborough (Bog Lane)
Honey-buzzard - 1 east over Stanpit Marsh
Osprey 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Slepe Heath, 1 Longham Lakes
Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadows (Christchurch Harbour)
Yesterday : a Roseate Tern past Portland Bill
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| Sanderling, Knoll Beach © Clinton Whale |
Sunday 10th May 2026
Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy again at Lynch Cove (The Fleet)
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill is the first of the year
White Stork - 1 south east over Shillingstone around midday, 1 Wareham, flew down the Piddle Valley.
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Swineham GPs this morning.
Red Kite - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 over Hengistbury Head
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| Sandwich Tern, off Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale |
Saturday 9th May 2026
Garganey - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB from Buddleia Viewpoint, 1 drake at Silverlake
Cuckoo - 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
Turtle Dove - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO this afternoon
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Mudeford Quay, 1 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay
Sanderling - 28 Mudeford Quay, 10 Ferrybridge
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Brownsea Island this afternoon
Manx Shearwater - 3 Mudeford Quay
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 1 flew east past Mudeford Quay
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Freshwater Bay on Portland this afternoon
Hen Harrier - a male over Hartland Moor
Red Kite - 1 Poole Harbour
Black Kite - a possible seen high over Southbourne
Hobby - 3 Hartland Moor, 2 Morden Bog
Hooded Crow - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
| Little Tern, Ferrybridge © Garry Hayman |
Friday 8th May 2026
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Thursday 7th May 2026
| Dartford Warbler - Ballard Down © Rebecca Porter |
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| Meadow Pipit - Durlston CP © Brian Edge |
Wednesday 6th May 2026
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| Turtle Dove - Tidmoor Stables © Freddy Alway |
Tuesday 5th May 2026
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| Putative Iberian Chiffchaff © Hamish Murray |
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| Cattle Egret - Pallington Lakes © Rebecca Porter |
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| Linnet - Highcliffe © Clinton Whale |
Monday 4th May 2026
Cuckoo - 1 Portland, 1 Swineham, 1 Winterborne Stickland (Field Grove).
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland.
Grey Plover - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Arne Moors.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Arne Moors.
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Tern - 1 Wareham Channel.
Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moors,1 Bestwall.
White Stork - 1 flew E from the lower Piddle valley.
Osprey - 1 arrived Christchurch Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 E over Christchurch Hbr.
Hobby - 5 Swineham & Wareham Channel.
Wood Warbler - 1 Hardy's Monument.
Iberian Chiffchaff - 1 possible Durlston CP.
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| Pheasant with chicks, Tolpuddle © Julian Francis |
Sunday 3rd May 2026
Turtle Dove - 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Portland Bill.
Grey Plover - 4 Swineham & Wareham Channel.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 2 Brownsea Island.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 15 Christchurch Hbr.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Tern - 3 Wareham Channel.
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 2 Swineham, 1 Lodmoor.
White Stork - 1 flew N from the lower Piddle valley.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Channel.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.
Whinchat - 1+ Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1-2 Durlston CP.
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| Whitethroat, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale |
Saturday 2nd May 2026
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay.
Whimbrel - 6 Lytchett Bay.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 41 Christchurch Hbr.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Little Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Skua - 1 W past Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Hengistbury Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Great White Egret - 3 Bestwall, 1 E past Hengistbury Hd.
Night Heron - 1 Iford.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
White Stork - 1 Woodville.
Osprey - 2 Arne RSPB.
Hen Harrier - 1 male Town Common.
Hobby - 2 Arne, 1 Longham Lakes.
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Stanpit.
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Holton Heath.
Garden Warbler - 2 Stanpit, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Wild Woodbury.
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| White Stork, Woodville © John Bishop |
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| White Stork and Red Kite, Woodville © John Bishop |
Friday 1st May 2026
Cuckoo - 1 Morden.
Grey Plover - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Bay, 2-3 Brownsea Island, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 18 past Portland Bill, 16 past Hengistbury Hd, 16 E past Durlston CP.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 100 Christchurch Hbr, 19 Brownsea Island.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Kittiwake - 285+ past Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Skua - 4 E past Mudeford Quay, 3 past Portland Bill.
Pomarine Skua - 2 E past Durlston CP, 1 E past Mudeford Quay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Red-throated Diver - 3 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 20 W past Mudeford Quay, 1 E past Durlston CP.
White Stork - 1 Charminster watermeadows.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Hobby - 1 Ballard Down, 1 Middlebere, 1 Morden, 1 Portland Bill.
Thursday 30th April 2026
Pochard - 4 Longham Lakes
Garganey - 1 Drake South haven Pool Studland
Whimbrel - 45 Through off Chesil Beach, 15 Ferrybridge, 9 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 9 Longham Lakes
Pomarine Skua - 15 heading East through Mudeford Quay, 7 (probable) heading east through Poole Bay, 2 further birds later at Mudeford Quay
Black Tern - 4 Off long groyne Mudeford
Bonapartes Gull - 1 2nd cal/yr Lodmoor early, then presumed same bird later at Lynch Cove
White Stork - 1 Fordington Fields Dorchester
Glossy Ibis - 3 Swineham flew towards Arne Moors.
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| White Stork, Dorchester © Alan Membury |
Wednesday 29th April 2026
Whimbrel - 4 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lychett Bay
Bonapartes Gull - 1 Lodmoor
Black Throated Diver - 1 Flew past the Bill. Portland
White Stork - 1 Flew over Careys Secret Garden
Glossy Ibis - 3 Flew over Swineham again early morning
Cattle Egret - 10 Field North of Woodsford, 1 Field between Bakers Arms roundabout and Morden Park corner
Red Kite - 6 over Bothenhampton Bridport, 1 Cogden Beach, 2 Portesham
BLACK KITE - 1 was 1st seen over Carey just before 10am and was tracked heading over Sandford , headed towards Lytchett Bay. Just after 11am it was picked up again over the west end of Lytchett Fields heading over the Baker's Arms roundabout. It was finally seen heading towards Lytchett Matravers
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Lytchett Fields
Red spotted Bluethroat - 1 still at Swineham north path
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| Gargeney, Lodmoor © Phil Cheesman |
Tuesday 28th April 2026
Spotted Redshank - 1 Arne Moors
Forster's Tern - 1 Adult feeding along Rockley Channel off Ham Common
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Morden Bog
Red Kite - 6 flew over West Bay from E to W, 5 Flew over Bridport later from E to W
Ring Ouzel - 1 Culverwell Portland
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Monday 27th April 2026
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Mapperton
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head briefly then flew NE
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 3 Flew over Swineham
Red Kite - 1 West Bay, 4 Dottery
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Pamphill, 1 Lytchett Fields
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Sunday 26th April 2026
Surf Scoter - 1 west past Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Hengistbury
Whimbrel - 11 over Langton Herring, 8 Christchurch Harbour, 5 Lynch Cove, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Brownsea Island, 1 east past Hengistbury, 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Swineham (Stilt Pools)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Arne Moors then later at Swineham Point
Sanderling - 12 Rodden Hive
Arctic Tern - 2 east past Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
White Stork - 1 Charminster on WMs west of A37, 1 over Silverlake
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Hobby - 1 Keysworth/Wareham Channel, 1 Hengistbury
Nightingale - 1 singing at Durlston CP
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Saturday 25th April 2026
Whimbrel - 5 Lynch Cove on the Fleet, 3 Wick/Hengistbury
Sanderling - 5 Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Arctic Skua - 2 east past Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Great Norther Diver - 1 east past Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Swift - 3 Wimborne, 3 Wool, 2 Wareham
Hobby - 3 Arne Moors, 1 Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Peregrine - 1st egg hatched at Poole Asda site
Firecrest - 1 Wick near Wooden Bridge
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wick near Wooden Bridge
Pied Flycatcher - 1 briefly at Norden, 1 female along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs, 1 female at Wick (Roebury Lane)
Redstart - 1 female at Wick near Wooden Bridge
| Bonaparte's Gull, Lynch Cove © Steve Sansom |
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| Whitethroat, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale |
Friday 24th April 2026
Thursday 23rd April 2026
Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Tuesday 21st April 2026
Monday 20th April 2026
Sunday 19th April 2026
Saturday 18th April 2026
Barnacle Goose - 1 Dorchester/Charminster WMs
Mandarin Duck - 1 male over East Stoke
Cuckoo - 2 heard at Middlebere, 1 heard Wareham Forest, 1 heard near East Stoke, 1 Arne RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 again on Brownsea Lagoon this morning
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st winter still at Lynch Cove on the Fleet
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields
Hobby - 1 over a Corfe Mullen garden this evening at 6pm
Hoopoe - 1 in a Bournemouth private garden
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 seen briefly this morning between Old Harry and Ballard Down but not since
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Wood Warbler - male singing in private wood east of Sherborne
Firecrest - 5 singing on Holton Heath
Ring Ouzel - 1 Dulston CP (west end)
Red-spotted Bluethroat - 1 male still along path at eastern end of Swineham GPs
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female at Pokesdown Railway Station, 1 Durlston CP (west end of Warren)
Redstart - 2 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Old Harry, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 2 Ballard Down, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Christchurch Harbour, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Tree Pipit - 8 Wareham Forest south of Morden Bog, 3 Holton Heath, 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Liitlesea (The Fleet)
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| Sandwich Terns, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale |

























