Sunday 15th May 2022

Cuckoo - 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Frome Valley
Garganey - 1 drake at Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Stint - 2 briefly at Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Shell Bay
Manx Shearwater -  1 St Aldhelm's Head
Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 13 Worgret
Great White Egret - 1 Frome Valley
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby - 1 Frome Valley, 1 Longham Lakes
Wood Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour (Ashtree Meadows)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Harbour (Ashtree Meadows), 1 St Aldhelm's Head quarry, 1 Lytchett Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Starling, Woodville © John Bishop

 

Saturday 14th May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Glaucous Gull - 3rd cy at Lodmoor RSPB again
Iceland Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 12 East Holme
Honey-buzzard - 1 in off the sea at St Aldhelm's Head
Hen Harrier - 1 over Swineham GPs
Hobby - 1 over West Compton
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Black Redstart - 1 Dancing Ledge

Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

 

Friday 13th May 2022

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 5 Weymouth Bay
Cuckoo - 1 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 4 Ringstead Bay, 3 Rodden Hive
Sanderling - 6 Herbury (The Fleet), 6 Christchurch Harbour
Glaucous Gull - 3rd cy at West Bexington and another (same?) Lodmoor RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Hoopoe - 1 Charminster
Bee-eater -1 Portland Bill, mobile but not seen since early afternoon
Spotted Flycatcher - 11-20 around Hengistbury/Wick area
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Wood
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head

Little Egret, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Mute Swan, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Common Sandpiper, Tuckton © Dave Hill

 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Tuckton © Dave Hill

   

Thursday 12th May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Litton Cheney, 1 Morden Bog

Whimbrel - 11 Charmouth

 Sanderling - 12 Charmouth, 98 Studland Beach

Purple Sandpiper - 10 Cobb Wall Lyme Regis

Common Sandpiper - 1 Charmouth

Caspian Gull - 1st summer in Crown Estate fields Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 2 past Charmouth

Great Northern Diver - 8 past Portland Bill, 1 past Charmouth

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Osprey - 1 over Morden Bog

Hoopoe - 1 Charminster

Yesterday's Red-necked Phalarope, Pilot's Point Studland © Aidan Brown

House Martin, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper

Rock Pipit, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Common Sandpiper, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 11th May 2022

Wigeon - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 1 Holloway's Dock

Black-tailed Godwit - 104 Holloway's Dock

Sanderling - c.50 Pilot's Point Shell Bay, 19 Christchurch Harbour beach

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Pilot's Point Studland

Greenshank - 1 Holloway's Dock

Little Gull - 1st summer past Mudeford Quay

 Glaucous Gull - 1 probable flew from Lodmoor to Weymouth Bay

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 1 past Mudeford Quay

Great Northern Diver - 12 past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater  - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Cattle Egret - 5 Wareham, 3 Middlebere

Short-eared Owl - 1 in the dunes at Studland

Blackcap, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Purple Sandpiper, Peveril Point © Steve Peppiatt

Tuesday 10th May 2022

 Brent Goose - 3 Brands Bay Studland, 1 Stanpit

Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel -3 Brands Bay Studland, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Stanpit

Turnstone - 2 Peveril Point Swanage

Knot - 4 Brownsea NT

Purple Sandpiper - 19 The Cobb Lyme Regis, 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Little Tern - 2 Lytchett Bay

Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Lodmoor and Weymouth Bay, 2 on lagoon Brownsea Island NT

Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill, 4 past Chesil Cove, 1 past Camp Road Wyke Regis

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP

Dipper - 1 on River Lim Lyme Regis

Common Tern, Brownsea NT © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Common Tern, Brownsea NT © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Monday 9th May 2022

Barnacle Goose - 3 Silverlake

Whimbrel - 1 Herbury, The Fleet, 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Rodden Hive, 6 Ferrybridge

Knot - 1 opposite Langton Hive Point, The Fleet, 4 Brownsea Island

Sanderling - 10 Herbury, The Fleet

Purple Sandpiper - 11 on the Rock,  Lyme Regis

Greenshank - 3 Rodden Hive

Little Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Head

 Roseate Tern - 1 flew east Hengistbury

Black Tern - 6 off Portland Bill, 

Arctic Tern - 1 Hengistbury,

Pomarine Skua - 24 past Hengistbury Head, 6 flew east Durlston CP, 1 past Portland Bill, 2 Charmouth, 

2 east from Chesil Cove

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Red Kite - 4 over Slepe Heath

Sunday 8th May 2022

Garganey - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Red-throated Diver - 1 Chesil Cove

Black-throated Diver - 1 ad/sum Chesil Cove

Cattle Egret - 4 Lower Frome Valley

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Red Kite - 3 Lytchett Maltravers, 3 Maiden Castle, 3 Iwern Minster, 2 Wareham Forest, 1 Child Okeford

Osprey - 2 over Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Whimbrel - 10 Wareham Channel, 2 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Arctic Skua - 4 Chesil Cove

Little Tern - 24 Ferrybridge

Arctic Tern - 12E Chesil Cove

Woodchat Shrike - 1 1st/sum fem. Portland Bill

Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 3 Ferrybridge

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Reap Lane Portland

Dartford Warbler _ Talbot Heath © Vincent Blood

Saturday 7th May 2022

Cattle Egret - 4 in the Lower Frome Valley

Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Eype, 1 West Compton

White-tailed Eagle - 1 imm Wareham Channel (IoW Intro)

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail in off sea Portland Bill

Putative Eastern (Siberian) Common Tern - 1 again Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Gull - 1ad Hengistbury Hd again on the HHC mudbar.

Swift - 4 Longham Lakes, 2 Portland Bill, 1 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Durlston CP.

Hobby - 1 over Wareham Channel, 1 over Longham Lakes

Swallow - 24 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill

Redstart - 1 Portland Bill

Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill, 21 St Aldhelm's Hd, 4 Hengistbury Hd, 4 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 3 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Bar-tailed Godwit - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Friday 6th May 2022

Barnacle Goose - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 11 Lynch Cove, 2E Hengistbury Hd, 1 Portland Bill

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lynch Cove, 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Wood Sandpiper - 1W Abbotsbury Swannery

Putative Eastern (Siberian) Common Tern (longipennis) - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Gull - 1ad  Hengistbury Hd on HHC mudbar)

Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes

Swift - 1 Longham Lakes

Ringed Plover - Hengistbury Hd © Clinton Whale

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh - © Dave Hill

Common Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Thursday 5th May 2022

Brent Goose - 1 East Marsh Stanpit

Garganey - 1 drake Lodmoor RSPB

Red-throated Diver - 1 west Hengistbury Hd.

Cattle Egret - 4 Holes Bay, 4 Wareham South River Frome.

Whimbrel - 3 Herbury, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Portland Hbr.

Sanderling - 4 Charmouth, 3 from Mudeford Quay

Purple Sandpiper - 1 from Mudeford Quay

Common Sandpiper - 1 from Mudeford Quay

Swift - 2 Bridport, 1 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 Herbury, 1 Lydlinch

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Wakeham Portland

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 3 Portland Bill

Leucorhoa (Greenland) Wheatear Hengistbury Hd.

Serin - 1 over north Blacknor Portland

Drake Garganey Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Membury

Wednesday 4th May 2022

Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fileds RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Nightjar - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Brownsea Island

Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little ringed Plover - 2 Radipole RSPB, 3 Lytchetts fields RSPB

Bar tailed Godwit - 36 Brownsea Lagoon,  35 Ferrybridge

Knot - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Gull - 1 off Bournemouth Pier

Arctic Tern - 1 off Bournemouth Pier

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - Poole Harbour BoPH  safari cruise 

White tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel BoPH  safari cruise (IoW Reintroduction)

Bearded Tit - Swineham BoPH  safari cruise 

Garden Warbler - 1 Easton Portland

Tree Pipit - 1 Easton Portland

Serin - 1 Portland Bill flew over Obs garden

Garganey - Lodmoor RSPB ©Daragh  Croxson

lesser Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Grey Wagtail - Longham Lakes ©Ron Poulter

Tuesday 3rd May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 calling between Bridging Camp & Littlesea

Little ringed Plover - 3 Radipole RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fileds RSPB

Bar tailed Godwit - 45 Ferrybridge

Wood sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB postbox pool

Arctic Skua - 1 East past Durlston CP

Great Northern Diver - 1 flying west off Durlston CP

Manx shearwater - 4 flew west Durlston CP

Spoonbill - 5 middlebere, 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 3 flew down piddle Valley nr wareham

Garden Warbler - 10 The Hump Portland

Ring Ouzel - 2 Portland Bill top field

Whinchat - 2  Portland Bill top field

Ring Ouzel - Portland ©Daniel Law

Cormorant - Longham Lakes ©Roger Peart

Monday 2nd May 2022

Mandarin Duck - 2 on the River Stour by Canford School

Nightjar - 1 Rempstone Forest

Cuckoo - 1 Piddles Wood, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 West Compton, Rempstone Forest

Ringed Plover - 16 Ferrybridge

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Lyme Regis Cobb

Common Sandpiper - 4 Longham Lakes

Little Gull - 1 off Hengisbury Head

Black Tern - 1 off Hengisbury Head

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Garden Warbler - 2 Hengisbury Head Nursery, 1 Cogden

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland in private garden

Pied flycatcher - 1 Portland nr Weston Street

Black redstart - 1 Portland Bill, Easton in private garden

Whinchat - 1  Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Greenland Farm Studland

Tree Pipit - 1 Rempstone Forest

Brambling - 2 South Haven

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Sunday 1st May 2022

Garganey -  2 Lytchett Fields RSPB French's Pool

Cuckoo - 1 Charlton Down

Ringed Plover - 18 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Rosette Tern - Lyme Regis pelagic

Pomarine Skua - 4  off Portland Bill

Great Northern Diver - 40 Lyme Regis pelagic

Spoonbill - 8 Poole Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel (IoW  reintroduction)

Hobby - 2 over Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ulwell

Blue headed Wagtail - 1 possible female in top fields Portland Bill

Song Thrush - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 30th April 2022.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Swineham GPs.
Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Eider - 1 Durlston CP.
Cuckoo - 1-2 lower Frome valley, 1 Sixpenny Handley.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Bridport, 1 Charmouth, 1 Holes Bay, 2 White Nothe.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Gull sp. - the large white-winged gull was on Lodmoor; species is not yet confirmed.
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge.
Arctic Tern - 4 Ferrybridge.
Great Skua - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Black-throated Diver - 2 Durlston CP.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 35 Chesil Beach, 45 Durlston CP.
Cattle Egret - 1 North over Christchurch Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Sixpenny Handley, 1 Martinstown.
Black Kite - 1 North over Corfe Castle (this was not Thursday's bird).
Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland, 7 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Wick.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 1 Charmouth, 1 Durlston CP meadows, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.

Reed Warbler, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper

Reed Bunting, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper

Sedge Warbler, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper

Friday 29th April 2022.

Egyptian Goose - 2 East Holme GPs.
Cuckoo - 1 Arne, 1 East Holme GPs.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Tincleton cressbeds.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Longham Lakes.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 46 past Chesil.
Whimbrel - 10 Ferrybridge, 10 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Common Tern - 165+ Brownsea Island.
Puffin - 1 from Chesil Beach.
Great Northern Diver - 2 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Manx Shearwater - 86 past Chesil Beach.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 3-4 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Gussage Down, 1 Swanage.
Hoopoe - 1 West Bexington (Manor Hotel).
Redstart - 3 Portland, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Studland (Greenlands Farm).
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland.
Whinchat - 5 Portland (Barleycrates), 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Studland (Greenlands Farm), 2 West Bay.

Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham.

Thursday 28th April 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Cogden Beach, 1 Brownsea Island
Sanderling - 3 West Bexington
Purple Sandpiper - 1 West Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake on eastern lake, 1 Longham Lakes
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury in Barn Bight
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Cattle Egret - 17 Wareham on R. Frome seen from bridge
Great White Egret - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Black Kite -1 seen at Langton Matravers, Ulwell Gap and Ballard Down
Hobby - 1 Studland Beach heading north, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 1 Cogden Beach
Whinchat - 1 Cogden Beach
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Coot, Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Wheatear, Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

 

 

Wednesday 27th April 2022.

Garganey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Lytchett Fields.
Swift - 1 nr Child Okeford, 2 Hengistbury Head, 4 Longham Lakes, 8 Portland Bill, 

        2 Sandbanks, 1 Shapwick, 1 Swineham.
Cuckoo - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Poole Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Canford School, 1 Longham Lakes.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Poole Harbour.
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Island.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 98 Chesil.
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island, 2 at and 22 past Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 

        3 Peveril Point, 2 Poole Harbour.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Glaucous Gull - a possible past Portland Bill.
Little Tern - 3 past Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 5 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Cheselbourne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour (Isle of Wight reintroduction scheme).
Hobby - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour, 4 Portland Bill.
Redstart - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head (Solent Meads).
Whinchat - 3+ Portland.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill.

Dunlin, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Curlew Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Tuesday 26th April 2022.

Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Grey Plover - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Bar-tailed Godwit - c.650 distantly past Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Arctic Skua - 4 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 5 lower Frome Valley.
Great White Egret - 1 lower Frome Valley.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Heath.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Keysworth then Morden (Isle of Wight reintroduction scheme).
Whimbrel - 15 Christchurch Harbour, 4 past Hengistbury Head.
Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Shapwick/White Mill area.
Wood Warbler - 1 Muscliffe.

Curlew Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Monday 25th April 2022

Egyptian Goose - 4 Swineham, 2 East Stoke
Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields
Cuckoo - 1 Swineham, 1 Gt. Ovens Heath, nr. Wareham
Whimbrel - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Smallmouth Bay, Ferrybridge
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Nth over West Cliffs, 1 Nth over Easton, both Portland
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Nth over Avalanche Hump
Red Kite - 1 Parkstone
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ring Ouzel - 1 in field nr.Portland Bird Observatory
Fieldfare - 2 late leavers at Lambert's Castle
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 10 off Portland Bill
Red-Throated Diver - 6 off Portland Bill

Redstart, Hengistbury Head © Mike Gibbons

Lesser Whitethroat, Durlston CP © Rob Johnson

Whinchat, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

Sunday 24th April 2022

Whimbrel - 3 South Haven, 1 Ringstead Bay, 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ringstead Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Cattle Egret - 2 Weymouth, 1 nr. Fancy's Farm, Portland
Hoopoe - 1 Portesham, private garden
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 over Blacknor then Reap Lane
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Garden Warbler - 2 North of Avalanche Road Hump
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 over Prison Moat, Portland
Ring Ouzel - 2 over Prison Moat, 2 Barleycrates, 1 Reap Lane - all Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 North of Avalanche Road Hump
Redstart - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Portland Castle, 1 over Prison Moat, 1 Top Fields, Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 4 St. Aldhem's Head, 2 over South Haven
Tree Pipit - 1 The Verne, Portland, 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Lapland Bunting - 1 over St. Aldhem's Head

Meadow Pipit, Wareham Forest © Ian Ballam

Saturday 23rd April 2022

Garganey - 2 Ferrybridge
Swift - 1 Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields
Osprey - 1 North over Blacknor, 1 East over Radipole, possibly same bird
Red Kite - 1 West Morden
Black Kite - 1 North over Salway Ash
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Tidmoor
Ring Ouzel - 1 Tout Quarry, Portland, 1 ringed at Culverwell, Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Reap Lane, Portland
Redstart - 3 St. Aldhem's Head
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor, Portland
Whinchat - 8 Portland Bill, 4 Barleycrates, 4 St. Aldhem's Head, 2 Reap Lane, 1 Ferrybridge
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Lytchett Fields

Yesterday: -

Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head

Whitethroat, The Fleet © Sue Wingett

Friday 22nd April 2022

Mandarin - 1 in Garden, Crossway
Avocet - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 20 over Tidmoor Range, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 NW over Portland Bill
Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 over Tidmoor Range
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 roosted at Abbotsbury Swannery
Hen Harrier - 1 from Portland Bill, then over Fortuneswell, Portland
Red Kite - 2 over Tout Quarry, Portland, 1 over Arne Peninsula, 1 over Brownsea
Black Kite - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Short-eared Owl - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Garden Warbler, 1 Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Top Fields, Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Sweethill, Portland, 1 Wakeham, Portland
Corn Bunting - 1 Wakeham, Portland

Avocet, Lodmoor RSPB © Jeremy Rowen

Red Kite, Abbotsbury © Sue Wingett

Wheateat, Chesil Beach © Paul Dibben

Thursday 21st April 2022

Goosander - 1 female Puddletown WMs
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Wyke Farm, 1 Sturminster GP, 1 Hengistbury
Osprey - 1 north over Wakeham (Portland)
Black Kite -1 over Weymouth flew towards The Fleet
Red Kite - 2 Abbotsbury, 2 Woodville, 1 Silverlake, 1 over Lilliput (Poole)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St Alhelm's Head
Garden Warbler - 1 Sturminster GP, 1 Briantspuddle
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Silverlake, 1 Wyke Farm, 1 Puddletown WMs, 1 Spyway, 1 Hengistbury
Firecrest -1 Wyke Farm
Ring Ouzel - 1 Stanpit
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake in private area
Redstart - 2 Wareham Forest
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Christchurch Harbour
Tree Pipit - 6 Morden Bog, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Nuthatch, near Shaftesbury © John Bishop

Wednesday 20th April 2022

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit, 2 past St Aldhelm's Head, 2 past Hengistbury, 1 Holes Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 5 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 West Bexington, 1 Holes Bay
Sandwich Tern - 35 Christchurh Harbour, 9 Ferrybridge, 2 past St Aldhelm's Head
Little Tern - 6 Ferrybridge
Red-throated Diver - 1 west Hengistbury
Great White Egret - 2 west at Cogden Beach, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - at least 48 over Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Broadwey, 1 Puddletown
Merlin - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler -1 trapped at Portland Bill
Tree Pipit -1 in off sea at Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest -1 St Aldhelm's Head
Pied Flycatcher - 2 trapped at  Portland Bird Observatory, 1 Cogden Beach
Redstart - 2 trapped at Portland Bill, 1 Rempstone
Whinchat - 1 Ferrybridge
Ring Ouzel - 1 Godlingston Hill (near Ulwell)
Yellow Wagtail - 1 in off sea at Christchurch Harbour

Jay, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Reed Warbler, Marhull © John Bishop

 

 

Tuesday 19th April 2022

Mandarin Duck - 1 drake on R. Wey at Nottington
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Priory Marsh (Christchuch)
Whimbrel - 23 Christchurch Harbour,  3 East Fleet, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 3 Hengistbury
Common Sandpiper - 3 East Fleet, 2 Ferrybridge (Hamm Beach)
Purple Sandpiper - 5 east past West Bay
Sandwich Tern - 35 Christchurch Harbour, 20 off Hengistbury, 2 Ferrybridge
Little Tern - 2 Ferrybridge
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 5 Peveril Point
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham
Red Kite - 1 Morden, 1 over Bridport
Black Kite - 1 seen flying west between West Bay and Eype this morning
White-tailed Eagle - 2 released birds on Brownsea Island lagoon
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Ballard Down/Old Harry, 1 Tout Quarry (Portland)
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 East Fleet
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 1 near Bowers Quarry (Portland)
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ballard Down/Old Harry

NB no reports of the Green-winged Teal at Lytchett Fields RSPB today.

Monday 18th April 2022

 Green-winged Teal - 1 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Holt Heath, 1 Portland

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Hampreston Fields

Whimbrel - 4 Lodmoor, 1 Tidmoor

Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor

Glossy Ibis - 1 still Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 2 flew past Hengistbury Head

Cattle Egret - 2 on Stilt Pool Bestwall RSPB, 

Red Kite - 1 over Westbourne, 1 Portland, 1 Kimmeridge, 3 over Stoborough Heath, 3 over Swyre Head

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour

Continental Coal Tit - 1 Hengistbury Head

Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Tidmoor

Pied Flycatcher - male Portland Castle

Whinchat - 1 Portland

Pied Flycatcher, Portland Castle   © Karen Jayne