Sightings - Monday August 31st 2020

Barnacle Goose - 1 Littlesea

Brent Goose - 2 pale bellied Lynch Cove

Garganey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 Brand's Bay

Osprey - 1 Stanpit marsh, 2 Wytch Farm, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor

Avocet - 1 Lodmoor, 4 Christchurch Harbour

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Christchurch Harbour

Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields

Ruff - 1 adult, 1 juv Lodmoor, 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Greenshank 2 or 3 Lytchett Fields

Redshank - 35 Lytchett Fields

Turnstone - 3 Lytchett Fields

Short-eared Owl - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Woodlark - flock of 25 on farm near Wimborne

Tree Pipit - 10 farm near Wimborne

Yellow Wagtail - 30 Talbot Heath, 7 St Aldhelm's Head, 3 Maiden Castle, 4 Bestwall, 4 East Lulworth, 21 on farm near Wimborne

Dipper - on River Axe at Seaborough

Redstart - 5 Purbeck Coast, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Holt Heath, 2 Arish Mell area

Whinchat - 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere

Wheatear - 9 St Aldhelm's Head, 5 Maiden Castle, 7 Swineham

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Redcliffe Point

Sedge Warbler - 1 Swineham

Dartford Warbler - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Spotted Flycatcher - 18 Purbeck coast, 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Purbeck coast

Siskin - 22 Purbeck coast

Linnet - 100+ flock Maiden Castle

Further report from yesterday of a Honey Buzzard over Maiden Castle, plus 24 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat and 1 Spotted Flycatcher

Ruff at Lodmoor © Geoff Barlow

Wheatear at Stanpit © Dave Hill

Shoveler, RSPB Radipole Lake © Clinton Whale

Sightings - Sunday August 30th 2020

 Western Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham Point
Great White Egret - 2 Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 18 Brownsea Island lagoon
Red Kite - 9 Penbury Knoll, 1 Wyke Down
Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Holton Lea, 1 Burton, 1 Middlebere
Merlin - 1 Cogden Beach
Hobby - 1 Penbury Knoll, 1 Winterbourne Stickland, 1 Sturminster Marshall
Avocet - 2 Lodmoor,
Ringed Plover - 36 Stanpit
Sanderling - 6 Stanpit
Little Stint - 2 juv Brownsea Island NT
Knot - 20 Brownsea Island lagoon, 3 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juv Abbotsbury Swannery,  2 juv Brownsea Island NT
Dunlin - 79 Stanpit
Ruff - 3 Arne Moors, 1 Stanpit
Black-tailed Godwit - 676 Holes Bay
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 2 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Hengitsbury
Redshank - c100 Holes Bay
Turnstone - 1 juv Holes Bay
Tree Pipit - 23 over Hengitsbury/Stanpit
Yellow Wagtail - 54 Hengitsbury/Stanpit, 35 Penbury Knoll, 12+ Slepe Farm, 12 East Bexington
Redstart - 3 Wyke Down, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Hengitsbury
Whinchat - 17 Hengitsbury, 6 Burton Bradstock, 3 East Bexington, 2 Cogden beach, 1 Wyke Down
Wheatear -100 + Hengitsbury, Cogden beach 15, 10 Stanpit
Firecrest - 2 Penbury Knoll
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Penbury Knoll

Common Redstart, Wyke Down © Chris Walker

Sightings - Saturday 29th August 2020

Great White Egret - 1 over Wick

Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Is.

Osprey - 3 Middlebere, 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Greenlands Fm, 1 N East Cliff Portland

Knot - 17 Ferrybridge, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Ruff - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Is.

Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 4 Middlebere

Roseate Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Arctic tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Hobby - 2 Blandford Forum, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Soldier's Road.

Spotted Flycatcher - 7 lambert's Castle, 2 Upton CP, single at Bincombe, Greenlands Fm, Stour Valley LNR.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert's Castle

Whinchat - 7 Hogs Hill / Maiden Castle, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Cogden, 1 Bincombe, 1 Greenlands Fm.

Wheatear - 34 Stanpit Marsh, 26+ Ringstead, 13 Greenlands Fm, 8 Bincombe, 3 Hogs Hill

Yellow Wagtail - 45 Cogden/Burton Bradstock, 15 Bincombe Down, 14 Greenlands Fm, 10 Middlebere, 9 Wareham, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB.

Ortolan Bunting - 1 heard and seen flying over Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - Worth Matravers © Janice Beck

Sightings - Friday 28th August 2020

Great White Egret - 1 flew through Christchurch Hbr.

Honey Buzzard - 1N over Wakeham Portland 

Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Stint - 1 juv Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 4 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere

Roseate Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Arctic Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Swift - 6 over Hengistbury Hd.

Hobby - 1 Avon Heath, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Scotland Fm.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Redstart - 2 Hartland Moor

Whinchat - 2 Avon Heath, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Hartand Moor, 1 Sunnyside Fm.

Wheatear - 12 Hengistbury Hd, 10 Maiden Castle, 9 Hartland Stud, 2 Sunnyside Fm.

Yellow Wagtail - 30 Hartland Stud, 28 Sunnyside Tramway, 12 by The Curlews Bestwell

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Sightings - Thursday 27th August 2020

Goosander - 2 Coward's Marsh

Manx Shearwater - 32 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 11 Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Is.

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hive Point Fleet.

Ringed Plover - 245 Brownsea Is (high count for site), 244 Ferrybridge

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Is.

Little Stint - 2 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 12 Abbotsbury swannery, 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 17 Brownsea Is, 9 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill

Swift - 10+ Longham Lakes, 2 Forston

Merlin - 1 Burton Bradstock

Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett fields RSPB

Sand Martin - 100 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Lytchett Bay (trapped & Ringed), 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Ferrybridge, 2 Coward's Marsh, 1 Abbottsbury, 1 Burton Bradstock

Wheatear - 21 Stanpit Marsh

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Yellow Wagtail - 82 Portland Bill, 37 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 35 Eye Mead, 25 Burton Bradstock, 15 Stanpit Marsh, 6 Coward's Marsh, 2 Stonebarrow, 1 Ferrybridge

Tree Pipit - 2 trapped & ringed Lytchett Bay.

Nocternal Migration - (NocMig) Last Night

Tree Pipit - 746 calls recorded over Portland Obs, 10+ Lytchett Bay

Ortolan Bunting - 1 over Stoborough

Sanderling - Ferrybridge © Alick Simmons

Sandwich Tern - Ferrybridge © Alick Simmons

Sightings - Wednesday 26th August 2020

Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill, 1W Cogden 

Leach's Petrel - 1W Cogden

Cattle Egret - 6 Bestwall (field by The Cirlews), 4 Eye Mead Wimborne

Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Is.

Marsh Harrier - 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Keysworth

Osprey - 5 at various location Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Langton Herring (Hive Pt.)

Avocet - 9 Brownsea Is.

Dotterel - 1 past Portland Obs

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay, 1 Cogden

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Is.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 3 Middlebere, 1 Swineham Pt.

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Great Skua - 2 past Cogden

Arctic Tern - 1 Portland Bill

Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Cogden

Hobby - 3 Norden, 3 Arne, 1 Redcliffe, 1 Hartland Moor

Wood Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Hengistbury Hd, 4 Sturminster Marshall GP, 2 Burton Bradstock

Pied Flycatcher - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Rushcombe LNR.

Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 9 Stanpit Marsh, c8 Soldier's Road (Stud Fm), 5 Ferrybridge, 1 nr Sunnyside Fm.

Yellow Wagtail - 30 field west Sunnyside Fm, 20 Burton Bradstock, 15 Scotland Fm, c7 Soldier's Road, 6 Doddings Fm, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - Ferrybridge © Will Bown

Little Egret - Ferrybridge © Alick Simmons

Sightings - Tuesday 25th August 2020

Great Shearwater - 2S Chesil Cove, 1 Portland, 1 Wyke Regis (off Camp Rd)
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill, 2 Charmouth
European Storm Petrel - c5 Chesil Cove, 1 Cogden Beach, 1 Wyke Regis (Camp Rd), 1 Charmouth, 1 Alum Chine
Leach's Storm Petrel - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Cogden
Western Cattle Egret - Swineham Gravel Pits
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbottsbury Swannery

Long-tailed Skua - 1 juv west Weymouth Bay
Black Tern - Flypast at Mudeford
Arctic Tern - 12 Ferrybridge

Little Gull - 2 West Bexington

Hoopoe - Undisclosed location in Poole

Peregrine Falcon, Christchurch Priory - Copyright Clinton Whale

Sightings - Monday 24th August 2020

Great White Egret - Lodmoor
Western Osprey - 1 Lychett Bay; 1 Middlebere; 2 Christchurch harbour
Ringed Plover - Sutton Bingham Reservoir
Wood Sandpiper (juv) - Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lychett Fields RSPB

Late Reports from Sunday 23rd August 
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 in flight heading West
Wood Sandpiper - 1 in flight Christchurch harbour

Common Tern © Will Brown

Wheatear © Dave Hill

Sightings - Sunday 23rd August 2020

Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Mandarin - 23 Sutton Bingham Reservoir (site record) 

Marsh Harrier - 2 Arne RSPB

Osprey - singles Stanpit Marsh; Abbotsbury Swannery; Lytchett Bay; Arne RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay 

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Mediterranean Gull - 150 Maiden Castle an unusually large number for the area

Arctic Tern - Wyke Regis

Wheatear - 7 Maiden Castle, 10 Greenland Farm

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Greenland Farm

Extra from yesterday:

Balearic Shearwater - 1 Chesil Cove, 6 Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland

Osprey - 1 Wimborne Minster, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

 Little Egret © Janice Beck

Osprey - Middlebere  © Keith Betton

                                  

Sightings - Saturday 22nd August 2020

 Balearic Shearwater - Chesil Cove

Osprey - Lytchett Bay

Grey Phalarope - Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - Lodmoor

Long-tailed Skua - Chesil Cove and Wyke Regis

Firecrest - Talbot Heath 

Sightings - Friday 21st August 2020

Garganey - 1 Sutton Bingham Reservoir
Whimbrel - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit

Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge

Knot - 3 Ferrybridge, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Grey Phalarope - 1 at Ferrybridge, 1 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road)

Little Gull - 1 juvenile Chesil Cove

Arctic Tern - 3 Ferrybridge

Black Tern - 1 Wyke Regis (Camp Road), 1 Mudeford Quay

Great Skua - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road)

Arctic Skua - 1 Chesil Cove,  1 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road)

Long-tailed Skua - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road), 1 Hengistbury Head

Storm Petrel - 1 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road)

Sooty Shearwater - 2 past Cogden Beach, 1  Hengistbury Head

Balearic Shearwater - 7 Chesil Cove, 4 past Cogden Beach, 4 Portland Bill,

             4 past Wyke Regis (Camp Road), 2 Hengistbury Head

Manx Shearwater - 8 Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 14 Brownsea Island lagoon

Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Osprey - at least 1 in Poole Harbour area

Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

 

Sand Martin at Stanpit © Dave Hill

Fledgling Sand Martin at Stanpit © Dave Hill

Common Sandpiper at Lodmoor RSPB © David Wareham

 

 

Sightings - Thursday 20th August 2020

Swift - c15 Herbury, 6+ Charminster Down
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Rodden Hive

Sanderling - 15 Chesil Cove

Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Arctic Tern - 5 Chesil Cove

Arctic Skua - 2 Cogden Beach, 1 Portland Bill 

Long-tailed Skua - 2, possibly 3, past Chesil Cove, 1 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 13 Portland Bill 

Great Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 8 Portland Bill, 4 Wyke Regis (Camp Rd), 1 Abbotsbury Swannery 

Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 adult reported seen flying at Wrackleford (near Charminster)

Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 3-4 Poole Harbour, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Poole Harbour

Hobby - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury

Whinchat - 4 Portland Bill, 2 Durlston CP, 1 Hog Cliff NNR

Redstart -3 Hengistbury, 2 Hog Cliff NNR

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Hog Cliff NNR, 2 Portland Bill

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury, 1 Portland Bill

 

Sandwich Tern at Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

 

 

Sightings - Wednesday 19th August 2020

Swift - 2+ Radipole Lake RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit, 1 juvenile at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 3 Stanpit
Arctic Tern - 3 over Radipole Lake RSPB
Black Tern - 1 Stanpit
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Long-tailed Skua - 1 past Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Bill this evening
Manx Shearwater - 1 Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Cogden Beach, 1 Mudeford Quay
Cattle Egret - 1 Hengistbury Head 
Rosy Starling - 1 in Weston & Easton (Portland)

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head

Reports of interest, Tuesday 18th August 2020.

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit.

Garganey - 1 Sutton Bingham reservoir.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 Swineham.

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor, 14 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Middlebere plus 1 Gigger's Island.
Osprey - 1-2 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Wareham Channel, 5 Middlebere.
Hobby - 2 Arne Moors, 1 Cogden Beach, 2 Lytchett Fields.
White Stork - 1 over Sydling St Nicholas.
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor, 3 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields, 4 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Island, 18 Lytchett Fields, 10 Middlebere.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Little Stint - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 8 Brownsea Island, 1 East Parley, 4 Lodmoor, 6 Lytchett Fields, 5 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 1 East Parley, 4+ Lodmoor, 12 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Wareham North Walls.
Redstart - 1 Lambert's Castle.
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Lambert’s Castle, 1 Wareham North Walls.
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit.

Knot at Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Reports of interest, Monday 17th August 2020.

Great Northern Diver - 2 Cogden Beach.
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 3-5 around Poole Harbour.
Whimbrel - 1 Poole Harbour, 7 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 1+ Christchurch Harbour, 8 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - c.16 around Poole Harbour, 5 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Portland (Blacknor), 1 Studland (South Haven).
Redstart - 2+ Lambert's Castle, 1 Maiden Castle (Hog Hill), 1 Talbot Heath.
Pied Flycatcher - 6 trapped and ringed Portland Bill, 3 elsewhere on Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Studland South Haven.
Garden Warbler - 1 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.

Wheatear at Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Yellow-legged Gull at Lytchett Fields RSPB yesterday © Nick Whitehouse

Mistle Thrush at Canford © Roger Peart

Sightings - Sunday 16th August 2020

Whimbrel - 15 Stanpit, 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Knot - 1 Stanpit 

Sanderling - 8 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit,  4+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 8+ Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 2 Cogden Beach
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Holt Heath

Rosy Starling - 1 Weston (Portland)

Pied Flycatcher - 6 Portland Bill, 2 trapped at Durlston CP, 1 Easton (Portland), 1 Alderholt,                                 1 Cranborne, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Redstart - 2 Lambert's Castle

Crossbill - 2 briefly at PBO

Common Tern at Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Reports of interest, Saturday 15th August 2020.

Cattle Egret - 2 reported Swineham.
Osprey - 2 at Middlebere were later at Wareham Channel.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Stanpit.
Knot - 7 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Ringstead, 1 Stanpit, 1 Swineham.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 14 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Black Tern - 1 Stanpit.
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 1 Ringstead.
Wheatear - 15 Stanpit was a good count.
Lesser Whitethroat - 6 Cogden Beach, 1 Durlston CP.
Garden Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Rosy Starling - 1 Portland Weston.

Late news - Black Tern in Brands Bay yesterday. Probable Caspian Gull in Poole Harbour yesterday.

Goldfinch at Lytchett Fields RSPB © Roger Peart

Pied Wagtail at Lytchett Fields RSPB © Roger Peart

Reports of interest, Friday 14th August 2020.

Pintail - 3 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 2 Swineham.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Channel.
Kentish Plover - a juvenile on Stanpit South Marsh (the first Christchurch record since 2007).
Whimbrel - 3 Middlebere.
Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.
Sanderling - 3 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay, 6 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 10 Lytchett Bay, 7 Middlebere.
Green Sandpiper - 3+ Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Bay,
Redstart - 2 Lambert's Castle.
Whinchat - 2 Maiden Castle/Hog Hill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 4 Lambert's Castle, 3 Portland Bill.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lambert's Castle, estimated 30+ Portland Bill.
Rosy Starling - 1 reported Portland Reap Lane.

Sightings - Thursday 13th August 2020

Great Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 6 Portland Bill
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 27 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Tern -1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Whitethroat - 20 St Aldhelm's Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 8 Lambert's Castle
Pied Flycatcher -  1 Lambert's Castle

Sightings - Wednesday 12th August 2020

Great Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 3 Wareham Channel
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 12 Lytchett Fields
AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 ringed at Lytchett Fields
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Lambert's Castle
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Burton Bradstock
Whinchat - 2 Cogden Beach

Aquatic Warbler Lytchett Fields copyright Shaun Robson

Sightings - Tuesday 11th August 2020

Ruff - 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 17 Bridging Camp The Fleet, 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Lambert's Castle, 1 Southwell

Sightings - Monday 10th August 2020

Osprey - 1 over Southwell Portland, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wood Sandpiper -  1 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 5 Christchurch Harbour
Spotted Redshank  - 1 Lytchett Fields
Great Egret - 1 Arne
Pied Flycatcher - 8 Portland, 2 Durlston CP, 1 Corfe Mullen

Whimbrel copyright Clinton Whale

Sightings - Sunday 9th August 2020

 Great White Egret - 1 at Longham Lakes, 1 at Lodmoor
Cattle Egret - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB 3 Abbotsbury
Eurasian Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island
Red Kite - 1 Powerstock Common
Western Osprey - 1 Holten Lee early evening, 2 Ham Common this morning
Curlew Sandpiper - Holes Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 14 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green sandpiper - 26 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common sandpiper - 1 Sturminster Marshall Gravel pits
Whinchat - 2 at Ringstead
Wheatear - 4 Ringstead, 5 Burton Bradstock, 3 St Aldhelms Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down, 7 Arne, 2 Powerstock Common, feeding young
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Ballard Down
Crossbill - 7 Ringstead

Dartford Warbler, Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Sightings - Saturday 8th August 2020

Great White Egret – Longham Lakes

Common Quail – Male calling at Kingdown

Red Kite – Woodville North Dorset

Honey Buzzard – heading West, viewed from East Lulworth and Wareham Channel

Osprey – 3 viewed from Ham Common viewpoint over the Wareham Channel

Northern Wheatear (female) Woodville

Pied Flycatcher – Arne and Rushcombe, Corfe Mullen

3 Spotted Flycatchers – Lamberts Castle

Rose-coloured Starling – Ferrybridge on the roof of the Chesil Beach visitor Centre and at Wyke Regis

Sightings - Friday 7th August 2020

Balearic Shearwater – Portland 

Osprey – Stanpit Christchurch 

Marsh Harrier – Priory Marsh Christchurch

5 Common Sandpiper – Stanpit Christchurch

Greenshank – Stanpit  Christchurch

Whimbrel – Stanpit Christchurch 

Great Skua (Bonxie )- Portland

3 Little Terns - Stanpit Christchurch

Wryneck– Radipole this morning

Sightings - Thursday 6th August 2020

Spotted Redshank - RSPB Lytchett Fields



Rock Pipit, Christchurch Harbour © David Wareham

Sightings - Wednesday 5th August 2020

Cattle Egret - 2 west close inshore Winspit, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Morden Bog

Avocet - 1 Lytchett Bay

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett bay

Common Sandpiper - 3 Silver Lake, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Standpit Marsh

Arctic Skua - 1 west Winspit

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Weymouth Bay

Melodious Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Obs

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Rushcombe Bottom LNR

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Juvenile Mediterranean Gull - Lodmoor © Edmund Mackrill

Sightings - Tuesday 4th August 2020

Garganey - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Is.

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Wareham

Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Morden Bog, 1 pos 2 seen Wareham channel

Grey Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB 

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Fields

Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 1 Creekmoor Ponds, 1 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB (on West Scrape)

Hobby - 1 Upton Heath

Grasshopper Warbler - 5 trapped ringed Lytchett Bay

Melodious Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Obs

Sedge Warbler - c100 Priory Marsh, 35 Lytchett Bay

Spotted Flycatcher - 2-3 Arne

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Arne

Crossbill - c15 Stroud Bridge Wareham Forest

Little Ringed Plover - Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Common Buzzard & Woodpigeon - Gotham © Roger Peart

Sightings - Monday 3rd August 2020

Manx Shearwater - 21 off Cogden Beach

Balearic Shearwater - 4 Cogden Beach

Cattle Egret - 1 juv Rodden Hive

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Honey Buzzard - 1 west over Easton

Osprey - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Middlebere.

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Priory Marsh

Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Rodden Hive, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB 1 Sturminster Marshall GP.

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Arctic Skua - 1 Cogden Beach

Great Skua - 3 Cogden Beach

Yellow-legged Gull - 3 Cogden Beach

Willow Warbler - c30 Portland Bill

Sedge Warbler - c30 Portland Bill

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down 

Wheatear - 3 Cogden, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Stonechat Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Green Sandpiper Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Sightings - Sunday 2nd August 2020

Balearic Shearwater - 4 off Cogden Beach

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lytchett bay

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 sum/plumage Lodmoor RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 1 Wick

Greenshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juv Stanpit Marsh

Merlin - 1 fem Wyke Down

Melodious Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Obs

Pied Flycatcher - reported from a Broadstone garden

Wheatear - 1 Hog Hill

Sightings - Saturday 1st August 2020

Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit

Dunlin - 35 Stanpit

Black-tailed Godwit - 3 Stanpit

Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit

A variety of passerine migrants today including:

Yellow Wagtail - Durlston CP

Redstart - 1 Durlston CP

Wheatear - 4 Ringstead

Grasshopper Warbler - Durlston CP

Garden Warbler - Durlston CP

Lesser Whitethroat - Durlston CP

Whitethroat - 11 Wick

Willow Warbler 5 Wick

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Pymore

Dippers on the Lim  © Roger Boswell