Wednesday 30th June 2021

Honey-Buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Ringed Plover - 7 Poole Harbour

Tuesday 29th Jun 2021

Avocet - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, West Scrapes
Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, West Scrapes
Mediterranean Gull - 25 flying over Christchurch Harbour area

Yesterday: 

Spotted Crake - 1 heard between Burton & Winkton
Great Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 from Middlebere Hide

Great Spotted Woodpecker juvenile, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

Monday 28th June 2021

Cuckoo - 1 Hardy's Monument
Little Tern - 3 Shell Bay
Arctic Skua - 2 Ferrybridge, heading to Portland Harbour
Melodious Warbler - 1 still at Middlebere, near Old Shepherd's Hut

Yesterday:
Spoonbill -1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Gigger's Island

Dartford Warbler, Holton Heath ©Tony Furnell

Sunday 27th June 2021

Grey Partridge - 2 Tarrant Rushton
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Black Kite - 1 Spetisbury
Little Owl - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Melodious Warbler - 1 still at Middlebere, near old Shepherd's hut

Yesterday:

Puffin - 7 Dancing Ledge
Manx Shearwater - 1000+ off Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill

Whitethroat, Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Little Ringed Plover, Lytchett Fields RSPB © Ian Ballam

Saturday 26th June 2021

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Tern - 2 fledged, Chesil Beach
Melodious Warbler - 1 still at Middlebere, Old Shepherd's Hut
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge

Yesterday: Nightjars - Slepe Heath

Wheatear - Ferrybridge © Debbie Saunders

Great Crested Grebe - Longham Lakes © Peter Rudland

Little Tern fledgling - Chesil Beach © Chesil Little Terns

Friday 25th June 2021

Great white Egret - 1 Radipole RSPB see from Visitors Centre 

Melodious Warbler - 1 Middlebere continues to show well by the Harrier Hide / Shepherds Hut

Yesterday: Osprey seen over Sherborne Castle lake

Black Headed Gull - Studland Bay ©John Bishop

Thursday 24th June 2021

Turtle Dove - 2 Southwell Portland visited a private garden a flock of Stock Doves

Avocet - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Rodden Hive Langton Herring, 1 Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Melodious Warbler - 1 Middlebere near Harrier Hide / Shepherds hut 

Melodious Warbler - Middlebere ©Ian Ballam

Tawny Owl - Canford School ©Roger Peart

Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell Portland visited a private garden mobile with a flock of Stock Doves

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lychett fields RSPB, Lodmoor RSPB

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 The Moonfleet

Common Sandpiper - 1 Rodden Hive 

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lychett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Rodden Hive Langton Herring

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Cirl Bunting - 1 Culverwell Portland 1st summer male trapped & ringed

Chiff Chaff - Lodmoor RSPB ©Garry Hayman

 

Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Brent Goose - 1 Brands Bay

Nightjar - 3 Areas around Hardy Monument  

Ringed Plover - 4 Lychett Fields RSPB, 2 Brands Bay

Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes on Island South Lake

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB West Scrape

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Radipole RSPB

Osprey - 1 Littlesea Studland 

Red Kite - 1 Drifted over Upton

Tawny Owl - Woodville  ©John Bishop

Monday 21st June 2021

 No reports today (Quelle surprise!!)

Just 2 photos from yesterday

Common Sandpiper, Longham Lakes  © Mark Wright

Dartford Warbler Morden Bog © Sacha Crowley

Sunday 20th June 2021

 Spoonbill - 1 Rodden Hive, Langton Herring

Great Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Red Kite - 1 over Swanage

Swift - 240+ over Abbotsbury Hillfort

Little Owl, Portland  © Steven Carey

Saturday 19th June 2021

Roseate Tern - 1 Ferrybridge

Spoonbill - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 over Chard GP

Hobby - 1 over Bridport

Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Portland Bill

Friday 18th June 2021

Snow Goose - 13 briefly at Lodmoor

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor

Black-tailed Godwit - 4 Lodmoor

Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Pratincole sp. - 1 possible flew over the Slopes Portland at 0800

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great Egret - 2 Lodmoor

Thursday 17th June 2021

Pomarine Skua - 3 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 1000+ past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Red Kite - 1 Wimborne

Nightjar © John Dadds

Wednesday 16th June 2021

Manx Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Arne over Conbe & Hydes Heaths

Hobby - 1 Holton Lee

Of interest

Starling -  a if you live in Blandford Forum a completely white leucistic bird has been present for around a week.

Juvenile Stonechat - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Raven - Portland © Andy Tew

Gannet passing Portland Bill © Andy Tew

Tuesday 15th June 2021

Another day of very few reports

Spoonbill - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Red Kite - 1 imm over Silverlake

Great Skua - Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 Silverlake

Juvenile Peregrine_ Bournemouth © David Wareham

Yellowhammer - Edmondsham © Roger Peart

Monday 14th June 2021

Very little reported today.

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Red Kite -1 imm passing over Crossways

Osprey - 2 the resident pair Poole Hbr.

Male Siskin - Arne © Nick Hull

Sunday 13th June 2021

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, flew off mid-afternoon
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill
Common Rosefinch - 1 at Portland Bird Observatory before flying towards Culverwell

Juvenile Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

Saturday 12th June 2021

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 5 over Martinstown
Cuckoo - 2 Wick, 1 Tolpuddle
Woodchat Shrike - 1 still below Wallsend on Portland
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 in private garden at Durlston, 1 West Cliff Estate at West Bay

Friday, 11th June 2021.

Cuckoo - 1 near Shillingstone.
Grey Plover - 1 Middlebere.
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 2 Wareham Common.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland Bill.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 lower Piddle valley.

Thursday 10th June 2021

Cuckoo - 1 Hengistbury
Woodchat Shrike - 1 still in horse paddock below Wallsend along West Cliff on Portland
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury

Wednesday, 9th Jun 2021.

White-tailed Eagle - an Isle of Wight bird was over Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Ibberton hill, 1 Netherbury, 3+ Coryates (Portesham area), 13 SE over Swanage.
Osprey - 1 Sherborne Castle Lake.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 East Parley.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland (Wallsend Cove/Sweet Hill area).
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Portland (Barleycrates area), 1 Wyke Regis.

Common Whitethroat © Brian Smith

Tuesday, 8th Jun 2021.

Cuckoo - 1 Tolpuddle.
Roseate Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 1 over Bridport.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland Bill.
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Portland (Watery Lane area).
Crossbill - 3 over Lytchett Fields.

Woodchat Shrike, Portland © Steven Carey

Monday, 7th Jun 2021.

Quail - 1 heard Old Harry Rocks, 1 Portland Bill.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Swineham.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields.
Avocet - 2 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Curlew - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham.
Hen Harrier - 1 over Woolsbridge.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland Bill.

Little Owl, Portland © Clive Hargrave

Wheatear, Portland Bill © Clive Hargrave

 

Sunday 6th June 2021

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Pomarine Skua - 1 Weymouth Bay
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Southwell (Portland)

Jay, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

Saturday 5th June 2021

Grey Partridge - 2 Alners Gorse
Egyptian Goose - 2 Silverlake
Puffin - 1 Pulpit Rock, Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Wareham Common
Rose-coloured Starling - 2 Southwell, Portland

Little Owl, Portland Bill © Oli Mockridge

Friday 4th June 2021

Iceland Gull - 1 Weston, Portland
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 Broadstone
Red-backed Shrike - 1 female, Cogden Beach

Yesterday: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 off Portland Bill

Grey Partridge, Tarrant Rushden © Ian Ballam

Common Tern, Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Thursday 3rd June 2021

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 2 first summer Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 5 off Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 2 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Gull, Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Wednesday 2nd June 2021

Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Red Kite - 1 Fordington Down, Dorchester
Rose-coloured Starling - 2 Portland Bill briefly
Corn Bunting - 1 Rodden Hive

Fulmar, Portland © Verity Hill

Stonechat fledgling, Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam

Tuesday 1st June 2021

Red Kite - 2 over Portesham, 1 over Parkstone, 1 over Watton Hill Bridport, 6 over Sixpenny Handley (yesterday) 
Stork sp - 1 circling high over the sea and coming in off near Mupe mid-afternoon

Hen Harrier - 1 male through Slepe Heath mid-morning
Golden Oriole - 1 Rempstone Heath briefly before flying towards RSPB Arne