Dorset Birds: June 2020

Sightings - Tuesday 30th June 2020

Goosander - 1 redhead still in Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Arctic Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Arctic Skua - 1 Cogden Beach

Balearic Shearwater - 7 Portland Bill, 4 Cogden Beach, 2 West Bexington

Serin - 1 briefly over Portland Bill Obs

Sightings - Monday 29th June 2020

Goosander - 1 redhead at Stanpit Marsh

Storm Petrel - 1 past Cogden Beach, 1 Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 10 Portland Bill, 9 past Cogden Beach

Manx Shearwater - 250+ Portland Bill, 3 Hengistbury

Crossbill - 5 over Poole

Adult and juvenile Peregrine in Bournemouth © Clinton Whale

Sightings - Sunday 28th June 2020

Nightjar - 1 Ramsdown Plantation

Common Sandpiper - 2 Sutton Bingham Reservoir, 1 Durlston CP

Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 1+ Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Bee-eater - 1 heard over Barleycrates Lane (Portland)

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Loscombe (near Melplash)

Crossbill - 45-50 Ramsdown Plantation, 12 Durlston CP

Sightings - Saturday 27th June 2020

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Ruff - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Common Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Wareham Common

Green Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Middlebere, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill, 2 Cogden Beach

Manx Shearwater - 5 Hengistbury Head

Red Kite - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wool

Crossbill - 12 over Swanage

Little Gull at Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Reports of Interest, Friday 26th June 2020

Quail - 3-4 Tarrant Rushton.
Great Crested Grebe - 34 Longham Lakes.
Red Kite - 1 Bridport.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Poole Harbour.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 3 Hartland, 1 Hurn.
Curlew - 1 Cogden, 9 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 1 Portland Bill.
Common Sandpiper - 1+ Lytchett Fields.
Arctic Skua - 1 Cogden.
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes, 4 Stanpit.
Little Owl - 1 Tarrant Rushton.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill.
Serin - 1 Culverwell (Portland).

Crossbill - 2+ over Merley, 10+ Meyrick Park, 5 over Piddle valley.

Mute Swans at Tuckton © Dave Hill

Common Sandpiper at Lytchett Fields © David Foster.

Common Tern in Weymouth (21st June) © Maurice Budden.

Reports of Interest, Thursday 25th June 2020

Common Scoter - 2 off Cogden.
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Cogden.
Red Kite - 1 Gussage St Michael.
White Stork - 3 reported over West Parley.
Cuckoo - 1 calling, Tarrant Keynston.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.
Crossbill - 7 Durlston CP, 5 over Iwerne Minster, 5 over Radipole Lake.

News from yesterday: Quail near Witchampton. 2 Crossbill over Thorncombe Heath.

Peregrine Falcon at Tuckton © Dave Hill

Sandwich Tern at Tuckton © Dave Hill

Stonechat at Bournemouth East Cliff © David Wareham

Reports of Interest, Wednesday 24th June 2020

Eider - 1 Lyme Regis harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Swanage.
Hobby - 1 Easton, Portland.
Rosy Starling - 2 remain at Weston, Portland.
Jackdaw - c.550 over Upton (regular evening movement).
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.
Crossbill - 9 over Easton, 10+ west over Charmouth, 3 over Talbot Heath.

News from yesterday: Great White Egret at Butterstreet Cove. Two Quail calling at Tarrant Rushton airfield.

Rosy Starling on Portland © Janice Grove

Wren in Bournemouth © David Wareham

Reports of Interest, Tuesday 23rd June 2020

Fulvous Whistling Duck - 1 Poole Park, no doubt an escaped bird.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Peregrine - 1 newly-fledged bird, Purbeck.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull - 1 nr. Horton Inn.
Rosy Starling - 2 remain at Weston, Portland.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.
Crossbill - 2 over Easton, 13 east over Hengistbury Head, 10 over Wyke Regis.

Fulvous Whistling Duck in Poole Park © Clinton Whale

Linnet near Edmondsham © Roger Peart

Yellowhammer near Edmondsham © Roger Peart.

Sightings - Monday 22nd June 2020.

Common Sandpiper - 6 Wick, 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Turtle Dove - 1 Durlston CP.
Swift - c50 Radipole RSPB.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Rose-coloured Starling - 2 still at Weston.
Crossbill - 32W Durlston CP.

Sandwich Terns – Tuckton © Dave Hill.

Sightings - Sunday 21st June 2020.

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB.
Red Kite - 1 over the Corfe Gap.
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Rose-coloured Starling - 2 Weston.
Whinchat - 1 juv. seen on the Osprey nest cam Poole Harbour this morning.
Serin - 1 NW over Easton.

Little Egret – Christchurch ©Clinton Whale.

Corn Bunting – Tarrant Rushton AF © Janice Grove.

Common Tern – Weymouth © Maurice D. Budden.

Sightings - Saturday 20th June 2020.

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ringstead Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Spotted Redshank - at least 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Cuckoo - 2 Durlston CP, 2 East Holme.
Hobby - 1 Durlston CP.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wick.
Crossbill - 12 Durlston CP.

Sightings - Friday 19th June 2020.

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 feeding young Arne RSPB.

Sightings - Thursday 18th June 2020

Hardly any news today, but it is that time of year........!

Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Quail - 1 Fiddleford

Sightings - Wednesday 17th June 2020

Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Osprey - 1 The Fleet and West Bexington, 1 Poole Harbour
Red Kite - 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery
Hobby - 3 Morden Bog, 3 west Poole Harbour
Great Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Reed Warbler copyright Clinton Whale

Sightings - Tuesday 16th June 2020

Quail - 1 Fiddleford

Sightings - Monday 15th June 2020

Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Ashmore
Golden Oriole - 1 Verne Common area

Sightings - Sunday 14th June 2020

Quail - 1 singing Spetisbury
Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB
Bee-eater - 2 heard over East Weares (Portland)
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 apparent singing St Aldhelm's Head
Rosy Starling - 1 still at Southhill Weymouth, 1 Reap Lane (Portland)

Bullfinch at Lodmoor RSPB © Richard Saunders

Grey Wagtail, Canford © Roger Peart

Moorhen at Lodmoor RSPB © Richard Saunders

Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

Rosy Starling, Southill © Clive Hargrave

Sightings - Saturday 13th June 2020

Fulvous Whistling Duck - seen at Poole Park this morning

Cuckoo - seen at the West end of Ballard Down, Swanage.

Hobby seen at Mordon Bog

Rosy Starlings are still showing well in both Weymouth and Portland

Singing Wagtail - Winterbourne Stickland. Copyright Will Brown

Fledgling Robin, Bournemouth. Copyright David Wareham

Sightings - Friday 12 June 2020

Long-tailed Duck - 1, Mudeford, on the sea off the quay in the morning

Common Quail - Portland (heard) in the evening

Manx Shearwater - 5, Mudeford Quay

Great Egret - Radipole and Lodmoor

Eurasian Spoonbill - 1, Lychett Fields flew in at Sherford Pools 0715 hrs

Arctic Skua - 2, Charmouth

Rose-coloured Starling - 1, Portland at Observatory Quarry with Starlings in the morning

Sightings - Thursday 11 June 2020

Red Kite – 1, Nottington

Turtle Dove – 1, Abbotsbury (in flight)

Cuckoo – 1, Christchurch (calling at St Catherine’s Hill)

Rose-coloured Starling – 1 ad still, Weymouth (in Grays, off Southill Garden Drive)

Late news from yesterday:

Rose-coloured Starling – 1, Wareham (West Walls area)

Rose-coloured Starling – 2, Portland (reported from gardens in Easton)

Juvenile Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

Sightings - Wednesday 10th June 2020

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Black Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Long-eared Owl - juv at undisclosed Site
Rosy Starling - 1ad Southill Garden Drive Weymouth, 1 1st/sum Portland Bill

Sightings - Tuesday 9th June 2020

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Alton Prancras
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Puffin - 1 off Portland Bill
Rosy Starling - 1 Southhill Estate Weymouth, 1 Easton Portland, 1 Chickerell.
Tree Pipit - 1 over Portland Bill
Crossbill - 10 Hengistbury Hd.

Sightings - Monday 8th June 2020

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Is.
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red-backed Shike - 1 male Cogden pm.
Crossbill - 30+ Culpepper's Dish

Sightings - Saturday, June 6th 2020

Red Kite - 1 over A35 near Tolpuddle
Swifts - c. 300 over Swanage Downs

Sightings - Friday June 5th 2020

Great Northern Diver - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Osprey - 1 Rodden Hive
Red-footed Falcon - female, over Lodmoor/Lorton valley
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor
Turtle Dove - 1 Wareham Garden
Cuckoo - 1 Throop, 1 Higher Hyde Heath
Blyth's Reed Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed, Portland Bird Observatory
Serin - 1 over Suckthumb Quarry Portland

Sightings - Thursday June 4th 2020

Balearic Shearwater - 6 passed Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Verne Common, Portland
Red Kite - 1 Hartland Moor
Red-footed Falcon - 1 Ferrybridge
Merlin - 1 female Lodmoor
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverlake
Rosy Starling - 1 Southbourne, 1 Southill,Weymouth

Sightings - Wednesday June 3rd 2020

Rosy Starling - 1 Hengitsbury Head

Sightings - Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Cuckoo - 1 Cheselbourne, 1 Burleston, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill
White Stork - 1 Stinsford (blue ring on left leg)
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Canford Bottom, 1 Broadwindsor, 1 Swineham, 1 East Stour
Marsh Warbler - 1 still at Bestwell RSPB (Wareham)
Redstart - 2 trapped at PBO
Crossbill - 2 over Stanpit

Sightings - Monday 1st June 2020

Barnacle Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Wick
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Portland Bill
Bee-eater - 2 over Durlston CP
Hobby - 3 Morden Bog
Marsh Warbler - 1 still at Bestwell RSPB (Wareham)