Saturday 31st July 2021

Great Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere
Greenshank - 4 Middlebere, 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery
Whimbrel - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Friday 30th July 2021

Great Egret - 1 Middlebere 

Greenshank- 8 Middlebere 

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Branksome Chine, 1 past Hengistbury Head, 1 past Portland Bill (yesterday)

Thursday 29th July 2021

Common Sandpiper - 8 Abbotsbury, 2 east end of The Fleet, 2 Poole Park

Arctic Tern - 1 Brownsea Channel
Balearic Shearwater - 13 past Portland Bill (yesterday)

Wednesday 28th July 2021

Great Egret - 1 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Arctic Tern - 1 Brownsea Channel

Tuesday 27th July 2021

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marshes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Knot - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon

Common Sandpiper - 7 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB approach field pools

Roseate tern - 1 Poole Harbour seen from Brownsea Island Ferry

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Marsh Harrier - 3 Lodmoor RSPB

Wheatear - 1 Hengisbury Head (Crouch Hill)

Wood Sandpiper - Lytchett Fields RSPB ©Ian Ballam

Wood Sandpiper - Lytchett Fields RSPB ©Garry Hayman

Black-tailed Godwit - Lytchett Fields RSPB©Garry Hayman

Monday 26th July 2021

Grey Plover - 3 Brownsea Island

Knot - 1 Brownsea Island

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island settled on the Tamrisk Island

Great White Egret - 2 Radipole RSPB

Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour CJ7 and 022

Little Owl - Portland Obs Quarry

Melodious Warbler - 1 Cogden seen early morning but no sign since

Stonechat - Wareham Forest

Sunday 25th July 2021

Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill seen 800m off the Bill from a boat

Osprey - 1 Rodden Hive

Honey Buzzard - 1 Oakdale (Poole) seen drifting North West

Marsh Harrier - 1 Juv St Aldhelms Head 

Great Spotted Woodpecker - Holme Lane 

 

Saturday 24th July 2021

Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.

Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge.

Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB in summer plumage

Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge.

Common Sandpiper - 6 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Ferrybridge.
Black Guillemot - 1 Highcliffe (Christchurch) seen off the coastguards station but taken into care as looking unwell. 

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB at  the back of West Scrape

Osprey - 1 Broadwey flying NW towards Upwey

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh Christchurch

Yesterday 

Snow Goose - 1 West Bexington

Yellow-legged Gull 1 Juv West Bexington

Red Kite - 1 West Bexington

Yellow-legged Gull - Swineham   © Garry Hayman

Friday 23rd July 2021

Greenshank - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black Guillemot - 1 off Chewton Bunny (Christchurch)
Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Thursday 22nd July 2021

Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake, 1 Holes Bay
Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Arne RSPB from Coombe Heath
Melodious Warbler - 1 briefly at Portland Bill this afternoon

Wednesday 21st July 2021

Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 5 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank - 5 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Studland
Red Kite - 1 over Tidmoor (The Fleet)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lytchett Bay

Tuesday 20th July 2021

Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Yellow-legged Gull - 4 Portland Bill, 1 juvenile Stanpit
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Middle Beach (Studland)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bill

Yesterday : 2 Green Sandpipers at Chard Junction GP

Monday 19th July 2021

Common Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 over Portland Bill
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Portland Bill
Roseate Tern - 2 Ferrybridge
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 trapped & ringed at Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit (by rusty boat)
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Yesterday : a Quail was flushed by the footbridge at Ferrybridge

Jay at West Moors yesterday © Roy Nicklin

Buzzard, Woodville © John Bishop

Common Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Sunday 18th Jul 2021

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 6 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point, Swanage
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields
Roseate Tern - 4 Ferrybridge
Spoonbill - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, flying East to West, over Symondsbury

Yesterday:

Brent Goose - 1 off Portland Bill
Whimbrel - 7 Fisherman's Bank, Christchurch
Arctic Tern, 1st Summer - Lodmoor RSPB

Saturday 17th July 2021

Common Crane - 4 seen flying South down Allen Valley by Horton Pub

Roseate Tern - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Balearic Shearwater - 1 Off Portland Bill 

Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery seen Circling over & flying toward the Fleet

Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 see over Rodwell trail Weymouth

Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Trapped & ringed  at Lytchett Bay 

Friday 16th Jul 2021.

Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 1+ Ferrybridge, 3+ Poole Harbour
Knot - 1+ Ferrybridge.
Roseate Tern - 1 Ferrybridge.
Little Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Wheatear - 1 juv Ferrybridge.

Mediterranean Gull, Ferrybridge © John Dadds

Common Tern, Ferrybridge © John Dadds

Peregrine © Robert Daw

Little Egret, Ferrybridge © John Dadds

Thursday 15th July 2021

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh

White Stork - 1 seen over Abbotsbury Swannery again today.

Spoonbill - 1 Holloway's Dock Christchurch Hbr.

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay, 2 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Knot - 1 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Greenshank - 1 Brand's Bay

Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Portland Bill

Sand Martin - 65N Abbotsbury Swannery

Wheatear - 1 juv Maiden Castle 

Common Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Wednesday 14th July 2021

Cattle Egret - 1 Butterstreet Cove Fleet

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

White Stork - 1, Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 West Bexington, 1 over Weymouth Bay, over Greenhill & Lorton Valley and 1 north over Lytchett Bay/Upton. 

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Roseate Tern -  3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Greenfinch - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Lesser-black Backed Gull - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Tuesday 13th July 2021

Egyptian Goose - 2 ad 7juv on the Stilt Pools Wareham Meadows

Red-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 400 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Water Meadows

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere Lake views from Coombe Arne, 3 circling Hengistbury Hd. early a.m.

Red Kite - 1 Melcombe Bingham

Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 3 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Shell Bay

Common Sandpiper - Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill

Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Little Tern - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Sandwich Tern - c30 South Haven, 35 Stanpit Marsh

Common Tern - c180 South Haven, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Roseate Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wareham Water Meadows

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 caught & ringed Portland Bill Obs.

Female Blackcap - Wareham Forest © Nick Hull

Monday 12th July 2021

Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake

Egyptian Goose - 20 Silverlake

Common Scoter - 8 off shore Mudeford Quay

Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great White Egret - 1 Radipole RSPB

Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere

Avocet - 3 Middlebere

Whimbrel - 2 Upton CP, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Radipole RSPB

Roseate Tern - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ad Sivlerlake, 1 West Bexington

Swift - 10+ over Wareham

Hobby - 2 in the Piddle Valley

House Martin / Sand Martin - 200+ mixed flock over Wareham

Wheatear - 1 juv West Bexington

Tree Pipit Wareham Forest © Nick Hull

Sunday 11th July 2021

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hengistbury
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juvenile at West Bexington
Little Tern - 3 Stanpit
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Turtle Dove - 1 heard at Stanpit

Saturday 10th July 2021

Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Peveril Point
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB,  2 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Silverlake
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Arctic Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere

Friday 9th July 2021

Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Holes Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wick Meadows.
Roseate Tern - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Little Tern - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.

Late records - Leucistic Blackbird in Wimborne and Grasshopper Warbler at Lower Bockhampton yesterday.

Thursday 8th July 2021

Little Ringed Plover - 1 juvenile Stanpit
Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Hengistbury
Common Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury, 1 Charmouth beach
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Roseate Tern - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Tern - 2 Mudeford Quay
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 over Mudeford Quay
?Black Kite - a probable seen over Keysworthy at 17:10 heading in direction of Morden Bog. (Could be same bird that was seen over Godlingston Heath on 2nd July).

Wednesday 7th July 2021

Whimbrel - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Common Sandpiper - 11+ Christchurch Harbour.
Dunlin - 1 Brand's Bay.
Balearic Shearwater - 13 past Portland Bill.
Gannet - 1 fishing off Goathorn Peninsula (within Poole Harbour).
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 off Portland Bill.
Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Coombe Heath, 1 Ham Common - perhaps all the same bird.

Tuesday 6th July 2021

Brent Goose - 1 Mudeford Quay, 1 past Southbourne.
Alpine Swift - a possible over north Portland.
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 past Southbourne.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Green Sandpiper - 1 East Parley.
Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill. off
Manx Shearwater - 1 Mudeford Quay, a "steady stream" past Portland, 1 off Southbourne.
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere.
Roseate Tern - 2 Lodmoor RSPB and 2 E at Ferrybridge were presumably the same birds.
Hen Harrier - 1 East Parley.

Monday 5th July 2021

Egyptian Goose - 3 Silverlake.
Turnstone - 2 Poole Harbour mouth.
Whimbrel - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Peveril Point, 2 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 1 off Hengistbury sandspit.
Balearic Shearwater - 3 off Portland Bill.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere.
Roseate Tern - 1 Stanpit/Mudeford Quay.
Hobby - 2 E Piddle Valley, 2 Silverlake.

Sunday 4th July 2021

Black-tailed Godwit - 20 over Badbury Rings
Common Sandpiper - 2 Peveril Point, 1+ Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 3 Coward's Marsh, 3 at Lodmoor RSPB this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Saturday 3rd July 2021

 No significant news today

Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB (first bird of autumn)

Friday 2nd July 2021

Raptor spp. - a very interesting raptor photographed over Greenlands Farm Studland this am - ID being debated!
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Serin - 1 Portland Obs

Thursday 1st July 2021

Cattle Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Great Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB