Sunday 5th July 2026

Whimbrel - 1-2 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holme Lane gravel pit.
Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 over Wimborne.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Canford Heath, 1 Piddle Valley ringing station.

Spotted Flycatcher, Canford Heath © Janet Panter.

Saturday 4th July 2026

Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 10 Brownsea Island north shore.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wick.
Common Tern - 2 Longham Lakes.
Purple Heron - 1 Arne (has been present for about a fortnight).
Cattle Egret - 4 Middlebere.
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Middlebere.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 E over Christchurch, 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor.
Honey Buzzard - 1 Organford.
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Golden Oriole - 1 heard but not seen Lytchett Bay (footpath 12) this morning.

Friday 3rd July 2026

Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Wareham Channel.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Woodsford.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Woodsford, 2 Stanpit.
Storm Petrel - 3+ Portland Bill Obs overnight.
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 fishing off Shipstal.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Wareham Channel.
Honey Buzzard - 1 N over Abbotsbury Swannery.
Starling - 1 all-white (leucistic) bird Ferndown.

Thursday 2nd July 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wick
Red Kite - 2 near Bridport at midday, 1 over Bakers Arms
Hobby - 2 Carey Estate,  1 Middlebere
Crossbill - 2 over Carey Estate

Wednesday 1st July 2026

Avocet - a pair with 2 newly hatched young on Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper -  2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 still in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Island
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB (now confirmed as breeding here for the first time in Dorset since 1883)
Cattle Egret - 1+ Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate

Yesterday: 43 Balearic Shearwater off Portland Bill 

Tuesday 30th June 2026

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Arctic Skua - 2 over Chesil Beach near Rodden Hive
Spoonbill - 7 Arne RSPB at Shipstal Point 
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Poole Harbour
Crossbill - 2 over Hengistbury Head

Yesterday evening: 
Quail - 1 at Wimborne St Giles, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Nightjar - 14 Puddletown Forest along Roman Road, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield from fields near the Canadian Memorial Entrance

Monday 29th June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields in breeding plumage
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Cattle Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : 48 Balearic Shearwater past Portland Bill

Sunday 28th June 2026

Quail - 1 Singing East of Harfoot Lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Singing Cheselborne Waterside Farm, 1 possibly 2 singing Tarrant Rushton
Spotted Redshank - 1 Adult summer plumage Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford, 6 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 Off Chesil Beach viewed from Bridging Camp
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Off Portland Bill early morning
Spoonbill - 2 still Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 Woodsford
Hobby - 1 Woodsford
Serin - 1 Flew over Observatory garden Portland

Saturday 27th June 2026

Quail - 1 Calling East of Harfoot lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Calling South of track at Wyke Down
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 10 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Summer plumaged adult Middlebere
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 flew over Swannery car park
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere
Serin - male flew over Bird Observatory into beach hut fields

Spotted Redshank, Middlebere © Gary Hayman

Friday 26th June 2026

Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor

Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Past Portland bill

Black Tern Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

Thursday 25th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Dipper - 2 on R Lim in Lyme Regis

Wednesday 24th June 2026

Little Tern-  5 on Blackberry Point in Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Channel
Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Dipper - 1 on R Lim in Lyme Regis
Serin - Male in PBO garden this morning 

Yesterday : 28 Balearic Shearwaters and a Whimbrel at Portland Bill

Tuesday 23rd June 2026

Common Scoter -1 off Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Quail - 1 singing at Waterside Farm, Cheselbourne
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 at Wick
Hobby - 1 Upton CP

Monday 22nd June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 1 Parky Meade Rail Christchurch Harbour

Manx Shearwater - 5000+ mostly east off Portland Bill, 2000 + off West Bexington, 200 off Ferrybidge

Balearic Shearwater - 70  mostly going east off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 7 Wareham Common

Late News: Black Kite - 1 Blandford St Mary's on Friday 19th June

Starling - Bestwalls Meadows Swineham 
© GarryHayman

Sunday 21st June 2026

Quail - 1 possibly 2 at West Compton

Mandrain Duck - 13 over Shillingstone Recreation Ground

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Green Sandpiper - Wick Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 

Red Kite - 1 Over Bennetts Water Gardens, 1 over Coburg Rd Dorchester

Red backed Shrike - 1 female Swineham Gravel Pit initially seen from BoPH bird boat

Red backed Shrike - Swineham GP
© Trevor Warwick

Saturday 20th June 2026

Quail - 2 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Cheselbourne

Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge 

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Bay and then at the back of Sherford Pools, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hoopoe - 1 In private garden Swanage

Yesterday: 100 Manx Shearwater, 5 Balearic Shearwater and 2 Arctic Skua off Portland Bill

Nightjar - Tadnoll & Winfrith NR DWT
© Steve Carey

Friday 19th June 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton heard calling

Cuckoo - 1 Arne Moor

Whimbrel - 1 Fisherman's Bank Christchurch Harbour

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Swineham Point

Storm Petrel - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bill overnight

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Dorset side of River Avon  by the causeway

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Corfe Mullen

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Over Combe Heath seen from Middlebere NT Hide

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery in the afternoon

Thursday 18th June 2026

 Barnacle Goose - 3 Woodsford Castle

Quail - 1 heard Tarrant Rushton airfield

Black -tailed Godwit - 10 Christchurch Harbour

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 briefly Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour

Wednesday 17th June 2026

 Quail - 1 again at north west end of Tarrant Rushton airfield

Avocet - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Shipstal Point RSPB Arne

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Marsh Harrier - 3 Swineham

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel and female G466 gave flight views to the Summer Safari Cruise

Tuesday 16th June 2026

 Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island

Common Sandpiper - 1 Sturminster Marshall Lake

Spoonbill - 2 still at Lodmoor, 1 Brownsea Island

Little Egret - 37 pre-roost Holes Bay area

Cattle Egret - 4 between Holmebridge and Wareham

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - 1 2nd cal Holmebridge

Monday 15th June 2026

Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 West Compton

Cuckoo - 1 Canford Heath

Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island Lagoon

 Balearic Shearwater - 3 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 3 Lodmmor, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Bittern - seen again at Lodmoor

Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields

Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield

White-tailed Eagle - 1 adult and 1 2nd cal year over Corfe and Middlebere

Sunday 14th June 2026

Quail - 1 West Compton, 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 Corfe Mullen, 1 over Dorchester bypass

Osprey - 2 at Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay

White Stork - 1 flying over Wimborne 

Bittern - Lodmoor RSPB © Steven Carey

Saturday 13th June 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 28 Portland Bill

European Storm Petrel - past Portland Bill

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 

Red Kite - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Fields, 1, Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

Hobby - 1 Blacknor, Portland.

Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Blyth's Reed Warbler - 1Portland Bill (Probable trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field)

Serin - 1 Portland Bill

Common Tern - Brownsea Lagoon © Nick Hull

Friday 12th June 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 35 past Portland Bill

Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Fields

Hobby over Christchurch Hbr.

Arctic Skua - 1 from Medford Quay

Common Tern 3 Medford Quay

Sandwich Tern - 85 Mudeford Quay

Serin - Portland Bill flew over the Obs garden

Puffin - off Dancing Ledge © Nick Hull

Thursday 11th June 2026

Manx Shearwater - 69 off Durlston CP. 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Balearic Shearwater - 21 Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 1 off Durlston CP.

Kittiwake - 11 Durlston CP, 1 off Hengistbury Hd.

Little Tern - 1 off Hengistbury Hd.

Sandwich Tern - 53 Holloways Dock Christchurch Hbr.

Serin - 1 Portland Bill - 1 female Ops Garden

Gadwall - Brownsea Island © Nick Hull

Wednesday 10th June 2026

Spoonbill - 1 Flew over Lytchett Bay
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
European Serin - 1 one flew over Portland Bird Observatory

Tuesday 9th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. 
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Balearic Shearwater - 4 off Portland Bill from East
RED BACKED SHRIKE - 1 Male  east of farm at c 50.6938, -2.0376; use RSPB car park
European Serin - 1 Calling in flight near Portland Bill

Monday 8th June 2026

Red Breasted Merganser - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. Seen and photographed early morning in flight around West end of Southdown Avenue

Bittern. Lodmoor © David Turner

Sunday 7th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor
Cuckoo - 3 Morden Bog
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Storm Petrol - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c400 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - c70 past Portland Bill from East
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog
Wheatear - 1 male Eggarden Hill

Marsh Tit Silverlake © Rich Stephenson

Bittern. Lodmoor © Phil Cheesman

Sand Martin. Silverlake © Rich Stephenson

Saturday 6th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 still at Wick
Sanderling - c6 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit, 2 Lodmoor beach
Whimbrel - 3 left Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
European Storm-petrel - 2 west past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP in full summer plumage
Little Tern-  5 Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 20 Portland Bill this morning, 18 Durlston CP this morning, 1 flew out of Poole Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1225 past Durlston CP, 54 Hengistbury Head, 7 Branksome Chine, 2 Mudeford Quay
Puffin - 1 past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Friday 5th June 2026

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 60+ off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c600 off Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 west past Portland Bill 
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Nightjar - 1 flying along Middlebere track this morning
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wick by the Wooden Bridge
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Hambledon Hill