Friday 25th April 2025

Garganey - 2 Tadnoll NR

Common Scoter - 45 past Portland Bill

Swift - 30 Swineham / Wareham, 2 Central Poole Harbour, 1 Swanage

Cuckoo - 1 Shapwick Blandford, 1 Corfe Mullen

Whimbrel - 63 Past Portland Bill,  9 Christchurch Harbour, 7 Arne RSPB, 2 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lychett Bay

Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Sandwich Tern - 215 Brownsea Lagoon, 100 off Hengisbury Head

Arctic Tern - 2 off Portland Bill

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Black throated Diver - 1 Past Hengisbury Head

Manx Shearwater - 2 Past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 4 Swineham flew to Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Red Kite - 1 Corfe Mullen, 1 Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Yellow Wagtail - 1 with cows at Arne RSPB

Thursday 24th April 2025

Quail - 1 singing at Gussage Down

Cuckoo - 1 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB

Turtle Dove - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 12 Holes Bay, 2 Middlebere, 2 West Bay

Ruff - 2 Mouth of River Frome seen from BoPH bird boat

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Swineham

Osprey - 3 from BoPH bird boat and also local pair CJ7 & 022

Hobby - 1 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB

Garden Warbler - 1 Pamphill by River Stour

Crossbill - 6 West side of Morden Bog

Serin - 1 Wakeham Paddocks Portland

Corn Bunting - 6 Maiden Castle

Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Swift - 30 Longham Lakes, 1 Wareham Common, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Hengisbury Head

Whimbrel - 17 Hengisbury Head, 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB, 2 Holes Bay

Purple Sandpiper - 10 Mudeford Quay

Common Sandpiper - 2 Peveril Point, 1 Hengisbury Head

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Little Gull - 2 Lytchett Bay RSPB

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery 

Hobby - Wareham Common

Sedge Warbler - 4 Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Garden Warbler - 2 Hengisbury Head

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 North Bestwalls Swineham

Redstart - 2 Newton Heath

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hegisbury Head

Wheatear - Mudeford Quay  © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 22nd April 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 Longham Lakes still

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett fields RSPB

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Middlebere lookout Arne RSPB

Puffin - 3 Dancing Ledge

Spoonbill - 2 Shipstal Hide Arne RSPB

LITTLE BITTERN - 1 Stour Valley NR north of Granby Road

Cattle Egret - 34 Wareham Common

Sedge Warbler - 3 Wild Woodbury

Black Redstart - 1 Wyke Regis Tidmoor Point

Whinchat - 1 Lane End Bere Regis, 1 Greenland Farm Studland

Wheatear - 5 Greenlands Farm Studland

Tree Pipit - 9 wild Woodbury

Yesterday: Swift  - 2 Arne RSPB, 1 Portland Bill

Monday 21st April 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 still on South Lake, Longham Lakes
Swift - 2 Littlesea (The Fleet), 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Wareham Common, 1 Durlston CP
Cuckoo - 2 around Christchurch Harbour, 1 Stoborough Heath, 1 West Knighton, 1 Puddletown Forest

Whimbrel - 13 over Rodden Hive, 7 Chesil Beach, 4 Littlesea, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Cattle Egret - 32 over Warreham Common at dawn
Osprey - 1 Hardy's Monument
Hoopoe - 1 in garden near Queens Park (Bournemouth)

Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor
Wood Warbler - 1 at PBO
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Fieldfare - A late bird calling at Durlston CP
Ring Ouzel - 1 still in Barn Field on Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 PBO, 1 Hengistbury Wood
Black Redstart - 1 singing at Southdown Road in Weymouth early morning
Whinchat - 1 Church Knowle, 1 Stoborough Heath, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Barn Field on Hengistbury Head

 

Whimbrel over The Fleet © Paul Harris

Hoopoe, near Queen's Park © Jon Darch

Little Egret, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Cetti's Warblert, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

 

Sunday 20th April 2025

Scaup -1 off Mudeford Quay this morning
LESSER SCAUP - 1 still on South Lake, Longham Lakes
Swift - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Worth Matravers, 1 Came Wood (near Weymouth)
Cuckoo - 2 south of Morden Bog, 1 south of Tolpuddle

Common Crane - 4 flew SE along Lower Piddle Valley this afternoon

Whimbrel - 8 Hengistbury Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes

Black Tern - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge
Manx Shearwater - 3 west past Hengistbury Head
Great White Egret - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 1 Bardolf WMs

Red Kite - 6 Worth Matravers, 2 Came Wood, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Upton, 1 Bardolf WMs,                                    1 Winterborne Zelston
Hoopoe - 1 Worth Matravers village but elusive
Firecrest - 2 near Lawson's Clump
Ring Ouzel - 1 in Barn Field on Hengistbury Head
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Avon Heath CP

 

Whinchat, yesterday on Portland © Garry Hayman

Lesser Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Ring Ouzel, Hengistbury © Scott Usher

Red Kite, Swyre © Richard Cook

 

 

Saturday 19th April 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 still on South Lake, Longham Lakes

Common Crane - 1 over Swineham GPs this afternoon

Whimbrel - 53 past Hengistbury Head, 25 past Mudeford Quay, 5 Lytchett Bay, 2 Swineham,                             2 Middlebere, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Silverlake, 1 Tidmoor Point
Sanderling - 9 past Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 2+ Silverlake, 2 Swineham, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 or 2 at Silverlake, 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Tidmoor Point

Spotted Redshank - 2 at mouth of R. Frome at Swineham
Greenshank - 1 Silverlake
Little Tern -  405 east past Ferrybridge this morning!, 1 Wareham Channel

Arctic Skua - 2 off Mudeford Quay, 1 Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 3 Arne RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 Poole Harbour
Fieldfare - 1 Greenlands Farm

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Solent Meads CP (Christchurch)
Lesser Whitethroat - 4 Tidmoor Point, 1 Silverlake (NE corner of Middle Lake)
Whinchat - 1 Melcombe Bingham

 

Arctic Skua, Mudeford Quay © Scott Usher

 

Friday 18th April 2025

LESSER SCAUP - 1 still on South Lake, Longham Lakes

Swift - 1 Longham Lakes

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Hengistbury Head

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 again Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 2 past Durlston CP

Whitethroat - 6 at Wick
Willow Warbler - 4 at Wick

Yesterday : A SUBALPINE WARBLER sp flew into a window in Wyke Regis (then flew off strongly)

Thursday 17th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still off Swineham Point
LESSER SCAUP - 1 still South Lake, Longham Lakes
Swift - 3 Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 Staunton Caundle, 1 south of Morden Bog
Crane - 2 west over Swineham area
Whimbrel - 15 over sea Hengistbury Head
Sandwich Tern - 10 Ferrybridge
Little Tern - 15 Ferrybridge
Spoonbill - 5 still Shipstal Point
Cattle Egret - 50+ still Wareham Common
Great White Egret - 1 River Frome nr. Woodsford, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 3 at Carey's Secret Garden, 1 in off Durlston Point
Red Kite - 5 over Wareham
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Wareham Channel
Hoopoe - 1 west over Weston Road, 1 Queen's Park area, Bournemouth
Hobby - 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
Sand Martin - 71 active burrows Hengistbury Head
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Greenlands Farm
Wheatear - 2 Barn Field, Christchurch Harbour

Shelduck, Stanpit Marsh © Jackie Smith

Grey Wagtail, Kingston Maurward © Derek Fowler

Lesser Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Mike Kirby

 

Wednesday 16th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still Swineham Point
Avocet - 15 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Stilt Pools, Swineham
Whimbrel - various at Lytchett Bay, Baiter & Holes Bay
Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Gull - 1 1st winter Swineham Point
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon & later Shipstal Point
Black Tern - 1 off Shipstal Point
Cattle Egret - 1 nr. Culverwell, Portland
Osprey - 1 over Radipole RSPB, 1 over river Piddle mouth
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Crouch Hill
Wheatear - 3 Lyscombe Reserve DWT
Yellowhammer - 2 Lyscombe Reserve DWT

Grey Plover, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Mallard Chicks - Lily Pond, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

Tuesday 15th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still Wareham Channel
LESSER SCAUP - 1 still South Lake, Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Stanpit area
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 6 Kimmeridge, 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 51 around Wareham area
Osprey - 2 over Hartland Moor
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Hoopoe - 1 nr. Borough Gardens, Dorchester
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 singing nth end of Radipole RSPB
Ring Ouzel - 1 still Greenlands Farm, 1 in garden nth of Radipole RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Whinchat - 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Portland
Wheatear - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Tree Pipit - 5 Wareham Forest
Yellowhammer - 1 Westhill, Corfe Castle

Dartford Warblers, Morden Bog © Robert Fielding

Swallow, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Magpie, Poole Park © Tony Furnell

Monday 14th April 2025

Pale-bellied Brent - 33 into Lyme Bay
Pink-footed Goose - 1  still Swineham Point
Common Scoter - 52 off Portland Bill
Turtle Dove - 1 over Portland Bird Obs
Avocet - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 from Rock lea Viewpoint
Sandwich Tern - 50+ Brownsea Lagoon, 2 off Portland Bill
Little Tern - 126 off Chesil Beach
Common Tern - 35 Brownsea Lagoon
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 still Brownsea Lagoon
Great Skua - 1 off Chesil Beach, 1 east off Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 2 off Chesil Beach
Red- Throated Diver - 2 off Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 at Avon Causeway
Osprey - 1 Morden Bog, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
White-tailed Eagle - 1 imm. over Church Knowle
Hoopoe - 1 still Harbour Bridge Lakes, Chickerell
Merlin - 1 off Chesil Beach
Ring Ouzel - 1 Greenlands Farm
Wheatear - 1 Crouch Hill, Stanpit
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Winspit Valley

Wheatear - Crouch Hill © Clinton Whale

Little Terns - Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

Blackcap - Blackhill, Bere Regis © Tracy Hart

Sunday 13th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 Swineham Pt.

Red-throated Diver 9 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - small movement past Portland Bill pm.

Great White Egret - 1 Wick

Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

White-tailed Eagle - 1 ad St Aldhelm's Head.

Hen Harrier - 1 imm male St Aldhelm's Head.

Goshawk - 1 over the Wareham Channel

Osprey - 3 Poole Hbr, (Wareham Channel, Middlebere & Lytchett Bay)

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Bay

Ruff -  3 Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Sandwich Tern - c50 Brownsea Lagoon

Common Tern - c10 Brownsea Lagoon, 6 through Christchurch Hbr.

Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Hoopoe - 1 Barleycrates Portland, 1 Southwell (private garden)

Sand Martin - 8N St Aldhelm's Head.

Swallow - 13N St Aldhelm's Head.

Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.

Wheatear - 6 St Aldhelm's Head., 4 Hartland Moor, 2 Durlston CP, 1 Brownsea Lagoon Wall, 1male Peveril Pt.

Ring Ouzel - 1 male St Aldhelm's Head.

Sedge Warbler - 1 Ten Hatches Nr Greys Bridge Dorchester 

Reed Warbler - 2 Swineham Pt, 1 Lytchett Bay RLVP

Whitethroat - 8 Durlston CP, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wick

Common Crossbill - 3 Upwey Garden

Ring Ouzel - Hartland Moor (12th) © Garry Hayman

Saturday 12th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 Wareham Channel

Lesser Scaup - 1 drake Longham Lakes

Spoonbill - 5 Arne RSPB

Red Kite - 2 Swineham Pt, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Longham Lakes

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Ruff - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Cuckoo - 1 Canford Sang

Hoopoe - 1 Lyme Regis football pitch east Charmouth Rd.

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.

Wheatear - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Ring Ouzel - 2 Hartland Moor

Sedge Warbler - 2 Longham Lakes

Reed Warbler - 10 Longham Lakes

Whitethroat - 1 Maiden Castle

Whimbrel - Cobbs Quay © Janet Panter

Friday 11th April 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 drake Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Portland Hbr.

Red-throated Diver - 28 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Osprey - 1 Morden Bog

Common Crane - 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery

Whimbrel - 19 Portland Bill, 17 off Chesil, 1 Arne RSPB on Shipstal Pt.

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea & Arne RSPB on Shipstal Pt.

Hoopoe - 1 Upway

Sand Martin - 100 Portland Bill

Red-rumped Swallow - 1 High Angle Battery Portland

Tree Pipit - 1 Stoborough Heath

Redstart - 1 Stoborough Heath

Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill

Wheatear - 3 Old Portesham, 1 Peveril Pt.

Ring Ouzel - 2  High Angle Battery Portland, 1 Tillycombe Portland, 1 Verne Common Portland

1 St. Aldhelm's Head, 

Sedge Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Beach

Reed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Beach

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Littlesea Wyke Regis

Common Whitethroat - 1 Stoborough Heath

Hooded Crow - 1 in off sea Portland Bill

Brambling - 1 over Ballard Down

Tufted Duck - Lodmoor © Nick Hull

Thursday 10th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 Swineham Point.

Garganey - 1 Coward's Marsh

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Red-throated Diver - 1 passed Hengistbury Hd.

Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Red Kite - 2 Swyre Head

White-tailed Eagle - 3 Swyre Head, 1 over Arne RSPB

Osprey - 1 Arne Hill, 1 Middlebere

Little ringed Plover - 2 Briantspuddle

Whimbrel - 1 over Christchurch Hbr.

Green Sandpiper - 1 Briantspuddle

Spotted Redshank - 1 over Christchurch Hbr.

Hoopoe - 1 Esthill Rd Wyke Regis, 1 Portland Bill, 1 over Jewell Rd Bournemouth, 1 Lorton Lane Weymouth.

Sand Martin - 8 Hengistbury/Wick

House Martin - 20 Hengistbury/Wick

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Wick

Black Redstart - 6 Portland, 1 fem/type Pentridge, 1 Tilly Whim Durlston CP

Sedge Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Reed Warbler - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury/Wick

Whitethroat - 5 Hengistbury/Wick

Subalpine Warbler sp. - 1 female west of 300m north Weymouth Police Station

Willow Warbler - 10 Hengistbury/Wick, 3 Stoborough Heath

Hawfinch - 1 Arne RSPB by car park.

Wednesday 9th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still with Greylags at Swineham Point

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still on south lake of Longham Lakes

Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Frome Valley

 Black-tailed Godwit - 638 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 mouth of River Frome

Spoonbill - 3 off Shipstal Point

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Red Kite - 3 Swyre Head, 1 over Langton Matravers

White-tailed Eagle - G466 Wareham Channel, 1 Swyre Head

Hoopoe - 1 flew over Lanehouse Weymouth, 1 Verne Citadel Portland

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Dorchester Water Meadows

Subalpine Warbler - female still in hedge c.300m north of west Weymouth Police station

Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne Common

Black Redstart - male Reap Lane Portland

Yesterday:

Cuckoo calling at Melcombe Bingham

Whitethroat, Hengistbury Head  © Clinton Whale

Jay Long field Hengistbury © Clinton Whale

Lesser Whitethroat, Dorchester Water meadows  © Simon

Tuesday 8th April 2025

 Pink-footed Goose - 1 still Swineham Point

Garganey - 1 Coward's Marsh

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drakestill on south lake of Longham Lakes

Avocet - 21 Brownsea Lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Lytchett Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 511 Holes Bay

Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 over Lytchett RSPB, 1 over Martinstown, 1 Arne, 2 Cerne Abbas

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne RSPB

Short-eared Owl - 1 over Barn Field Hengistbury Head

Hoopoe - 1 briefly at Lodmoor, 1 briefly Cliff Road Burton Bradstock

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 No dogs field Hengistbury Head, 1 Ballard Down

Nightingale - 1 in Long Field Hengistbury

Subalpine Warbler - still present c.300m north of West Weymouth police station

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell Portland

Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland top fields

Black Redstart - 2 King Barrow quarries Portland

Meadow Pipit, Hengistbury  © John Bishop

Wheatear, Hengistbury ©  John Bishop

Subalpine Warbler, Portland ©  Simon

Swallow, West Bexington © Roger Boswell

Arctic Skua, Portland Bill © Garry Lester 

Linnet, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Monday 7th April 2025

 Eider - 2 adult in Bramble Bush Bay

Little Ringed Plover - Stilt Pool Swineham

Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham

Arctic Skua - 2 dark phased from Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 5 from Portland Bill

Black-throated Diver - 2 from Portland Bill

Osprey - 1 over Broadwey, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Red Kite - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Black Kite - 1 probable over Hartland Moor

Hoopoe - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1in paddocks south of Watery Lane Portland

Merlin - 1 along Middlebere track

Subalpine Warbler - 1 still in hedge c.300m north of West Weymouth Police station

Whitethroat - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Long Field Hengistbury Head, 1 Abbotsbury

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stunted Oaks Hengistbury Head

Black Redstart - 5 Portland, 1 fem type Ferrybridge

Redstart - 1 Ahtree Meadows Stanpit, 1 Kimmeridge

Chiffchaff, Woodville ©  John Bishop

Sunday April 6th 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 Swineham Point

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still on South Lake, Longham Lakes

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Silverlake, 2 Lower Piddle Valley

Purple Sandpiper - 1 West Bay

Little Gull - 1 Swineham Point

Spoonbill - 3 Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB

Osprey - 1 Swineham Point, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Moordown

 Red Kite - 4 Cogden, 1 Silverlake

Red-rumped Swallow - one straight through Crown estate fields, Portland

Ring Ouzel - 1 flew north from St Aldhelm's Head

Reed Warbler - 1 Arne Moors

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 singing Tidmoor Point, Wyke Regis

Whitethroat - 1 Verne Cemetery

Subalpine Warbler species - female north of police station west of Southill Portland

Pied Flycatcher - male in Hans Tout Woods Kingston, 1 Portland Crown Estate fields

Black Redstart - 1 West Cliff Portland, 1 Reap Lane Portland

Common Redstart - 1 Crown Estate fields Portland, 1 West Hill Road Wyke Regis, 5 Cogden, 

10 through Barleycrates Lane Portland, 1 Durlston CP, 1 South Lake Longham Lakes, 1 Chickerell

Water Pipit - 1 Arne RSPB

Kestrel, Priory Marsh  © Clinton Whale

White-tailed Eagles, Morden Bog  © Gary Hayman

Fly-through Red-rumped Swallow, Portland  © Joe Stockwell

Common Redstart, Cogden © Gavin Haig

Little Gull, Swineham meadows ©Gary Hayman

Saturday 5th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 Lower Piddle Valley

Mandarin Duck - 1 Wareham Common

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh

LESSER SCAUP - 1 North end of South lake Longham Lakes

Little Ringed Plover - 7 Swineham

Ruff - 2 Lower Piddle Valley

Purple Sandpiper - 1 West Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea viewpoint

Little Tern - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT and also from the BoPH bird boat in Wareham Channel

Spoonbill - 3 Shipstal hide Arne RSPB, 1 Curlew Pool Swineham

Osprey - 1 Longham Lakes , 1 Morden Bog

Red Kite - 4 Ashmore, 2 Compton Abbas, 1 Upwey, 1 West Bay, 1 Turbury Common, 1 Parkstone

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Canford Poole, 1 Morden Bog

Chough - 1 Chesil Beach flew East

Willow Warbler - c80 West Bay, 1 Chickerell

Reed Warbler - 1 Longham Lakes

Black Redstart - 1 West Cliffs Portland 

Redstart - 3 Between Portland Bill and Weston,  2 Cogden Beach, 1 Burton Bradstock, 1 Arne RSPB Coombe Heath, 1 Little Sea Woods

Late News: 

BOOTED EAGLE - 1 reported at Martin Down on the Dorset border on Saturday 29th March

White tailed Eagle - Morden Bog © Alan Membury

Leucistic Wood Pigeon - Priests Way Herston 
© Bob Hammonds

Friday 4th April 2025

Pink footed Goose - 1 Swineham Point

Garganey - 1 female off Hengistbury Head

Great Bustard - 1 Nr Dorchester on private land

Cuckoo - 1 singing male Turners Puddle Heath

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Whimbrel - 1 over Durlston CP

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 The Cobb Lyme Regis

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lower Piddle Valley

Little Gull - 1 Frist winter Swineham GP

Common Tern - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

FORSTER'S TERN - Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Spoonbill - 3 through Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 35 Wareham Common

Osprey - 2 Middlebere Channel, 1 St Aldhelms in off the sea, 1 Durlston CP in off the sea

Hen Harrier - 1 Middlebere Channel

Pallid / Montagu's Harrier - 1 male in off the sea Durlston CP

Red Kite - 1 Dorchester, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Broadwey

Reed Warbler -1 Radipole RSPB

Black Redstart - 1 Watton Hill Bridport

Redstart - 1 Avalanche Rd Hump Portland

Tree Pipit - 1 Little Sea Wyke Regis

Yesterday 

Tree Pipit - 2 Cranborne Common

Little Ringed Polver - Lower Piddle Valley
© Garry Hayman

Purple Sandpiper - The Cobb Lyme Regis
©  Janet Panter

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Pink- footed Goose - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB and later at Swineham Point

LESSER SCAUP - 1 Longham Lakes north end of South Lake

Black - necked Grebe - 1 Hengistbury Head

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Holes Bay 1st record since 2016

Ruff  - 2 Lower Piddle valley and 1 later at Swineham point

Common Tern - 12 Hengistbury Head, 1 Longham Lakes

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Dewlish Water Meadows

Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Swineham Point

Red Kite - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Corfe Castle, 1 Charmouth, 1 Warmwell

Chiff Chaff (Siberian) - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Whitethroat - 1 Bradbury Rings

Redstart - 1 Hegistbury Head

Wheatear - 8 Hengistbury Head - 2 Peveril Point

Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog

Yesterday

White Stork - 1 possible over Rye Hill Bere Regis

Hoopoe - 2 Brady Lane nr Burton Bradstock

Pink - footed Goose - Swineham Point © James Leaver

Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Mandarin Duck - 2 Black Bridge Blandford Forum

Garganey - 2 Hengistbury Head

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Eider - 3 Chesil Beach

Velvet Scoter - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Chesil Beach

Common Scoter - 285 Chesil Beach, 42 Hengistbury Head

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Whimbrel - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Kimmeridge

Knot - 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Purple Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury Head

Spotted Redshank - 3 Turlin Point Lytchet Bay

Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Mediterranean Gull 200+ Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Arctic Tern - 1 Chesil Beach 

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Spoonbill - 7 Shipstal Hide Arne RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Hengistbury Head

Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour

Red Kite - 5 Arne RSPB, 5 Creech Heath, 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Worbret, 1 Portemsham, 1 Bridport, 1 Swanage, 1 Sliverlake, 1 Wareham Golf Course, 1 Sadborow, 1 Ferndown

White tailed Eagle - 1 Silverlake

Swallow - 2 Longham Lakes

House Martin - 2 East Stoke

Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head

Wheatear - 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 Eggardon Hill

Dipper - 1 Kingcombe DWT

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Chesil Beach

Chiff Chaff - Stanpit  Marsh © Clinton Whale.

Tuesday 1st April 2025.

Brent Goose - 18 Christchurch Harbour.
Lesser Scaup - 1 still at Longham Lakes.
Garganey - 2 past Portland Bill.
Common Scoter - 590 past Portland Bill, 5 past Hengistbury Head.
Grey Plover - 5 Brownsea Island.
Sanderling - 4 Brownsea Island, 2 past Hengistbury Head.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Sandwich Tern - 50 past Portland Bill, 18 past Hengistbury Head.
Little Gull - 1 Swineham.
Arctic Tern - 1 past Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Great White Egret - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Osprey - 3+ Poole Harbour, 1 Bridport, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Morden Bog.
Red Kite - 1 Parkstone, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Rockley Park, 1 Swineham, 1 Tolpuddle.
Meadow Pipit - 990 along Portland West Cliffs, 77 arrived Christchurch Harbour.

Monday 31st March 2025.

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Silverlake, 2 Dorchester water meadows, 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Purple Sandpiper - 18 Hengistbury sandspit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford.
Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 5 Affpuddle (Southover), 3 Dewlish.
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere.
Osprey - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 N past Portland East Cliffs.
White-tailed Eagle - 1+ Wareham Channel, 1+ Middlebere, 1 Avon Valley, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 

  1 N over Weymouth.
Red Kite - 1+ Dewlish, 1 Godlingston Hill.
Wheatear - 5 Hengistbury (Barn Field), 1 Peveril Point, 1 Portland Bill.
Black Redstart - 1 Eype
Reed Warbler - 1+ Radipole Lake.
Willow Warbler - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Dorchester water meadows.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland (Barleycrates Lane.)

Greenfinch, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Sunday 30th March 2025.

Garganey - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 E past Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Harbour.
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Portland Harbour.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside (Stoborough).
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor.
Common Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red-throated Diver - 10+ past Portland Bill, 1 E past Hengistbury Head.
Spoonbill - 7 Arne and Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Wareham Channel, 1 over Christchurch Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1+ west Poole Harbour.
Goshawk - 1+ west Poole Harbour.
White Wagtail - 3 Wyke Regis (Camp Rd).
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Wyke Regis (Camp Rd).
Wheatear - 2 Durlston CP, 2 Hengistbury Head.
Firecrest - 3 Hengistbury Head.

Turnstones, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Saturday 29th March 2025.

Grey Plover - 8 Brownsea Island
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Woodsford, 2 lower Piddle floods.
Dotterel - 1 Ferrybridge.
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island.
Purple Sandpiper - 16 Hengistbury sandspit.
Sanderling - 12 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 11 nr Holmebridge, 2 Buckland Ripers.
Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Colehill, 1+ Wareham Channel, 1 over Christchurch Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1+ Wareham Channel.
Wheatear - 1 Hengistbury sandspit, 1+ Portland.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Abbotsbury sewage works.
Redwing - 1 Durlston CP.

Linnet, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Cattle Egret, Buckland Ripers © Paul Harris

Friday 28th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still South Lake, Longham Lakes

 Long-tailed Duck - 2 Portland Harbour

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Dorchester Water Meadows

Dotterel - i close to the visitor centre Ferrybridge

Green Sandpiper - 3 along the River Frome Woodsford

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Kittiwake - adult on Dorchester water meadows

Sandwich Terns -  2 on the Fleet

Cattle Egret - 20 Holmebridge

White-tailed Eagle - seen at Corfe Castle, Wareham Channel and Middlebere

Hooded Crow - 1 briefly east cliffs Portland, 1 West Bexington

Swallow - 1 Litton Cheney

Black Redstart - 3 north of Croft Road Portland

Blue-headed x Iberian Wagtail - adult Dorchester Water Meadows

Yesterday a Hobby seen at Slepe Heath

Great Black-backed Gulls, Tuckton  © Dave Hill

    Yellowhammer, Morden Bog  © Robert Fielding

Little Ringed Plover, Dorchester Water Meadows © Simon

Dotterel, Ferrybridge © Steven Carey