Balearic Shearwater - 8 Portland Bill.
Purple Heron - 1 possible Poole Harbour.
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne Bay, 1 Lytchett RSPB.
Hen Harrier - 1 Keysworth.
Honey Buzzard - 1 St Leonards.
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour, plus 2 translocated young birds (see note below).
Hobby - 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Whimbrel - 3 Arne, 1+ Brands Bay, 1 Ferrybridge, 3 Hengistbury Head, 1+ Holes Bay, 3 Ringstead.
Common Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Island, 2 Holes Bay, 1 Longham Lakes, 3 Lytchett RSPB, 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 18 Lytchett RSPB.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett RSPB.
Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 2 Holloway's Dock (Hengistbury), 10 Lytchett RSPB.
Nightjar - 1 ringed Durlston Head NNR.
Swift - 5+ Longham Lakes.
Yellow Wagtail - 25 Greenlands Farm, 2 Hengistbury Head, 3 Holes Bay, 10+ Lytchett RSPB, 44 Portland Bill, 19 Ringstead, 10 Wareham Common.
Redstart - 1 Arne, 4 Greenlands Farm, 2 Rushcombe Bottom.
Whinchat - 1+ Arne, 2 Hengistbury Head, 8 Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Brownsea Island, 2 Greenlands Farm, 1 Hengistbury Head, c. 4 Longham Lakes, 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Brownsea Island.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland Bill.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Ringstead.
Note: The elevated number of Osprey in Poole Harbour at present is due to the
Osprey translocation scheme which is being carried out by the Birds of
Poole Harbour charity and The Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation. For more
information on this project follow the link below.
https://www.birdsofpooleharbour.co.uk/osprey-translocation-project-schools-summer |
| Kestrel at Stanpit © Brian Smith |
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| Wheatear at Stanpit © Brian Smith |
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| Greenshank at Hengistbury © Clinton Whale |
