Sightings - Friday 31st May 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 Radipole lake RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island
Black Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Cuckoo - 1 Fiddleford

Yesterday - 4 Puffins settled off Portland Bill

Meadow Pipit at Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Sightings - Thursday 30th May 2019

Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 over Bournemouth, 1 over Arne RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 1st summer still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Cuckoo - 1 Badbury Rings
Hoopoe - 1 at West Bexington this morning but not seen since

Reports of interest, Wednesday 29th May 2019.

Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge.
Wheatear - 1 Coombe Heath.

Reports of interest, Tuesday 28th May 2019.

Eider - 1 Lyme Regis.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Hobby - 1 Brownsea Island, 2 Morden Bog.
Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog.

Reports of interest, Monday 27th May 2019.

Golden Oriole - 1 Portland Bill came in off the sea.
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Moreton.
Garden Warbler - 1 Upton CP.
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP.

Sightings - Sunday 26th May 2019

Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 1 (1st/sum) still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Cuckoo - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Badbury Rings, 1 Wick (Christchurch Harbour)

Puffin at Dancing Ledge © Simon Buckell

Razorbill at Dancing Ledge © Simon Buckell

Sightings - Saturday 25th May 2019

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Manx Shearwater - 73 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island
Red Kite - 3 over Upwey, 1 over Bridport
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 (1st/sum) Abbotsbury Swannery
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Common Rosefinch - 1 Culverwell (Portland Bill) briefly early morning

Whitethroat at Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Sightings - Friday 24th May 2019

Red Kite - 1 over Canford School
Great Egret - 1 Rodden Hive
Little Gull - 1 past Rodden Hive, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Golden Oriole - 1 Culverwell/Southwell, 1 Weston Portland

Dartford Warbler Christchurch copyright Michael Gibbons

Sightings - Thursday 23rd May 2019

Garganey - 1 Mudeford
Great Egret - 1 Langton Herring
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swanney
Whinchat - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Serin - 1 Portland Bill

Sightings - Wednesday 22nd May 2019

Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Golden Oriole - 1 singing Culverwell Portland

Raven Family Bournemouth copyright David Wareham

DBC AGM Wednesday 22nd May 2019

DORSET BIRD CLUB

AGENDA

for the

32nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

to be held:

at the Quarter Jack Suite, Allendale Community Centre, Wimborne Minster

on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 doors open 19:00 for 19:30 start

1.    Apologies for absence

2.    Introduction

3.    Minutes of the 31st AGM - to be approved

4.    Chairman’s Report (Marcus Lawson)

5.    Treasurer's Report (Trevor Buck)

approval of Treasurer’s Report

appointment of Auditor

6.    Election of Officers

Chair

Deputy Chair

Treasurer

Secretary

7.    Election of other Committee members

8.    Any other business

Refreshment Break

followed by

 The Birds of Mongolia – a short illustrated talk by Ian Lewis.

Sightings - Tuesday 21st May 2019

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake

Red Kite - 1 Bournemouth

Little Gull - 1 Herbury Gore

Golden Oriole - 2 Avalanche Road Hump area Portland

Sightings - Monday 20th May 2019

Manx Shearwater - 100 a.m. Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Is.
Little Stint - 2 reported at Ferrybridge
Sandwich Tern - c200 Browbsea Is.
Common Tern - c150 Brownsea Is.
Little Gull - 1 (1st/sum) Abbotsbury Swannery
Mediterranean Gull - 51 east Hengistbury Hd.
Turtle Dove - 1 Burton garden, 1 Southwell garden
Bee-eater - 1 over Portland Bird Obs late a.m.
Golden Oriole - 1 singing Southwell
Spotted Flycatcher - 10+ Portland Bill, 5 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Morden Bog

Sightings - Sunday 19th May 2019

Brent Goose - 1 Brand's Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
PURPLE HERON - 1 over Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Is.
Osprey - 1 over the Wareham Channel pos same or another Arne
Little Stint - Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell garden, 1 Burton garden
Cuckoo - 4 Slepe Heath, 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wick
Nightjar - 1 in a Merley garden
Hobby - 3 Wareham Channel, 1 Hartland Moor

Nightjar - Merley garden © Carolyn Newman

Sightings - Saturday 18th May 2019

Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Is.
Red Kite - 1 over Upton
Little Stint - at least 1 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 2 E Portland Bill
Arctic Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 3 Abottsbury Swannery
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell Portland
Cuckoo, 2 Arne RSPB, 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 West Knighton, 1 Wick.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 in off sea Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 39 Portland Bill

Spotted Sandpiper 17th May - Rodden Hive © Freddy Alway

Sightings - Friday 17th May 2019

Common Scoter - 30 past Hengistbury Hd.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 1 Rodden Hive (SY604820) still present late p.m.
Black Tern - 1 past Durlston CP.
Little Gull - 1 1st/sum Lodmoor RSPB
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell Portland
Nightjar - 1 over the reedbed Cogden Beach
Wryneck - 1 Combefield Quarry Portland.

Spotted Sandpiper - Rodden Hive © Paul Harris

Sightings - Thursday 16th May 2019

Garganey - 1 duck Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 Blandford
Spoonbill - 1 flew west over Christchurch Harbour
Common Crane - 1 Wareham flew towards Middlebere
Avocet - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Littlesea, the Fleet, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 11 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 7 past Ferrybridge, 5 past Portland, 4 past Lyme Regis, 4 past Charmouth all east
Little Gull - 1 1st summer Lodmoor RSPB
Turtle Dove - 1 Burton in private garden, 1 Stanpit Marsh,
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 behind Ridge Wharf, Wareham
Nightjar - 2 or 3 calling Hurn Forest
Bee-eater - 1 Portland

Grey Plover Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Common Sandpiper Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Linnet Hengistbury Head copyright David Wareham

Sightings - Wednesday 15th May 2019

Scoter sp - 29 From Chesil Beach
Garganey - 1 duck Stanpit
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 8 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Temminck's Stint - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Sanderling - 16 Ferrybridge, 4 Stanpit
Grey Plover - 10 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 1 east past Burton Bradstock
Turtle Dove - 1 in a garden at Burton
Cuckoo - 1 calling West Christchurch/St Catherine's Hill, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Nightjar - 1 Portland
Bee-eater - 7 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Chesil Beach
Garden Warbler - 3 Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher 1 Hengistbury Head
Black Redstart - 1 Burton Bradstock
Corn Bunting - 25 Milborne St Andrew

Guillemot at Durlston CP copyright David Wareham

Ringed Plover and Dunlin Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Black-tailed Godwits Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Sightings - Tuesday 14th May 2019

Common Scoter - 40 Chesil
Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Radipole
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Wyke Regis at Littlesea
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 10 Stanpit
Sanderling - 143 Chesil
Knot - 4 Chesil
Cuckoo - 1 Tadnoll yesterday
Continental Coal Tit - 1 Portland

Rock Pipit Hengistbury Head copyright David Wareham

Pied Wagtail incubating copyright Roger Peart

Swallow copyright Roger Peart

Oystercatcher and chick Abbotsbury Swannery copyright Sue Wingett

Sightings - Sunday 12th May 2019.

Spoonbill - 3 Wareham Channel, 2 Brownsea Lagoon.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 3 Lytchett Matravers, 1 Gunville Down.
Hobby - 2 Portland, 1 Bestwall, 1 Lytchett Matravers.
Knot - 4 Brownsea Lagoon.
Cuckoo - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Badbury Rings.
Yellow Wagtail - 3 N along west cliff Portland, 1 Blue-headed, 2 'flavissima'.

Lesser Whitethroat – Longham Lakes © David Foster.

Whimbrel – Hengistbury Head © David Wareham.

Sightings - Saturday 11th May 2019.

Goosander - 1 Knighton Heath Lakes.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon.
Hobby - 1 in off the sea Portland.
Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 2 Swineham GPs.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.

Sightings - Friday 10th May 2019.

Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 over Evershot turning A37, 1 over Lansdowne.
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Portland.
Hobby - 3 Middlebere, 2 Piddle Valley.
Whimbrel - 4 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Badbury Rings, 1 Hengistbury Head,  Swineham GPs.
Garden Warbler - 10+ around Portland.
Spotted Flycatcher - 100+ around Portland.

Spotted Flycatcher – Middlebere © Mike Gibbons. 

Greenfinch – Luscombe Valley NR ©  David Wareham.

Sightings - Thursday 9th May 2019.

Goosander - 1 redhead Knighton Heath Lakes.
Cattle Egret - 3 over Bog Lane.
Red Kite - 1 Iwerne Minster.
Hobby - 1 over Arne Moors, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Oakers Wood.
Whimbrel - 1 Church Ope Cove, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes.
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bird Observatory, 1 North Dorset.
Cuckoo - 1 Arne, 1 East Weare, 1 Oakers Wood area, 1 Swineham.
Swift -  200+ Longham Lakes,70+ Swineham.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Sweet Hill.
Crossbill - 2 Oakers Wood.

Reports of interest, Wednesday 8th May 2019.

Ring-Necked Duck - 1 Lodmoor.
Mandarin Duck - 2 Stourpaine.
Cattle Egret - 11 in the Frome valley at Holme Lane.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down.
Merlin - 1 Camp Rd (Wyke Regis).
Hobby - 1 Milldown LNR (Blandford).           
Crane - 1 possible flying S near Askerswell.
Whimbrel - 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB.
Greenshank - 6 Lytchett Bay RSPB.
Knot - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge.
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge.
Great Skua - 2 Chesil Beach.
Arctic Skua - 1 Chesil Beach.
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill.
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell area (Portland).
Cuckoo - 1 Church Ope Cove, Portland, 1 Swineham GP.
Nightingale - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Weymouth.
Black Redstart - 1 found dead in Sainsbury's car park, Poole.

Reports of interest, Tuesday 7th May 2019.

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Keynston.
Osprey - 1 Poole Harbour.
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Poole Harbour, 2 Slepe Heath.           
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge.
Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge, 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB.
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB.
Knot - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge.
Sanderling - 3 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 1 Chesil.
Pomarine Skua - 4 Chesil.
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Chesil.
Turtle Dove - 1 still present Southwell area (Portland).
Hooded Crow - 1 West Bexington.
GOLDEN ORIOLE - 1 Portland Barleycrates area.
Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Redstart - 2 Lambert's Castle.

Sightings - Monday 6th May 2019

Garganey - 1 drake West Bexington
Cattle Egret - at least 1 Lower Frome Valley (visible from Wareham bypass)
Spoonbill - 1 over Weymouth this evening, 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Hobby - 1 over West Christchurch
Black-winged Stilt - 1 Radipole Lakes RSPB
Whimbrel - 11 Ferrybridge, 7 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 Purbeck GC, 1 Rempstone Forest, 1 heard Stanpit
Wryneck - 1 Wyke Regis in a private garden
Hooded Crow - 1 off Portland Bill and 1, probably the same, later at West Bexington
Melodious Warbler - 1 briefly at Portland Bill
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Thumb Lane (Portland), 1 King's Wood (Corfe/Studland road)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 or 2 Thumb Lane (Portland), 1 Wakeham Wood (Portland)
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Wakeham Wood (Portland)
Whinchat - 5 Portland Bill, 3 Purbeck GC

Raven at Bournemouth © David Wareham

Sightings - Sunday 5th May 2019

Garganey - 1 drake West Bexington
Cattle Egret - 7 Lower Frome Valley (visible from Wareham bypass)
Red-necked Grebe - 1 West Bay
Montagu's Harrier - 1 ringtail this morning  around Chalbury Hill (north of Preston)
Osprey - 1 over Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Stone-curlew - 1 Holt Heath
Whimbrel - 3 past St Aldhelm's Head
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 Newton Heath, 1 Middlebere, 1 Ower, also heard at Holt Heath,
              Piddles Wood (Near Sturminster Newton) and Badbury Rings
Wood Warbler - 2 Thumb Lane (Portland)
Garden Warbler - 2 Ringstead
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ringstead
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Castle
Redstart - 2 Ringstead
Serin - 1 Lulworth Camp

Reports of interest, Saturday 4th May 2019.

Brent Goose - 7 Arne.
Whimbrel - 1 Arne.
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell area (Portland).
Ring-Necked Parakeet - 1 Iwerne Minster.
Cuckoo - 1 Arne.
Whinchat - 3 Durlston CP.
Redstart - 1 Portland Bill.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill.
Wood Warbler - 2 Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1-2 Delph Woods (Broadstone).
Tree Sparrow - 1 nr East Stour.

Ring-Necked Parakeet at Iwerne Minster © Harry McBride.

Reports of interest, Friday 3rd May 2019.

Black Kite - one at The Verne (Portland) is an escaped bird with jesses.
Whimbrel - 3 Ferrybridge.
Bar-Tailed Godwit - 9 Ferrybridge.
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell (Portland).
Cuckoo - 1-2 Bere Regis, 1 Fontmell Down.
Jay - a bird ringed at Portland PBO this morning was only the fourth ever ringed there (the most recent being 1993).
White Wagtail - 2 Southwell (Portland).
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Winspit.
Wood Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.
Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston CP.

Sightings - Thursday 2nd May 2019

Ring-necked Duck - 1 drake Lodmoor RSPB
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 14 Lower Frome Valley
Great White Egret - 1 Wareham Channel area
Spoonbill - 5 flew south over Arne RSPB.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 over Ferrybridge, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - Wareham Channel area, 1 Blandford
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Wood Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, Avalanche Road (Portland)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Avalanche Road (Portland)
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Stanpit
Serin - 1 Southwell (Portland)

Sightings - Wednesday 1st May 2019

Hobby - 2 West Cliffs Portland
Cattle Egret - 7 Holme Lane
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Whinchat - 3 Barleycrates Lane Portland
Serin - 2 Top Fields Portland