Tuesday 31st August 2021.

Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 lower Piddle valley, 1 Wick.
Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3-5 Poole Harbour.
Wryneck - 1 Bridging Camp (The Fleet).
Yellow Wagtail - 16 Hengistbury Head, 14 St Aldhelm's Head.
Redstart - 1 Badbury Rings, 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Middlebere.
Whinchat - 1 Badbury Rings, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Middlebere, 5 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 East Parley, 10+ Holton Lee, 1 lower Piddle valley.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Winspit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB (ringing).
Firecrest - 1 Delph Woods, 1 Holton Lee.

Monday 30th August 2021.

Eider - 1 Lyme Regis.
Goosander - 4 Silverlake.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brands Bay.
Greenshank - 3 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brands Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit.
Osprey - 3-4 Poole Harbour, 2-3 Lytchett Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne, 1 Gunville Down.
Hobby - 2 Arne.
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bird Observatory.
Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 Swanage.
Yellow Wagtail - 5 Hengistbury Head, 10 Ringstead Bay, 8 Lytchett Fields.
Wheatear - 7 Hengistbury Head, 5 Ringstead Bay, 2 Godlingston Heath.
Redstart - 1 Lytchett Fields, 4 Godlingston Heath.
Whinchat - 1 Godlingston Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Moonfleet, 4 Godlingston Heath.
Grasshopper Warbler - 8 Lytchett Bay RSPB (ringing).
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head.

Eider, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell.

Avocet, Poole Harbour © David Wareham.

Sunday 29th August 2021

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit
Knot - 8 Brand's Bay, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Tidmoor
Greenshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great Skua - 10 Lyme Bay on pelagic trip
Arctic Skua - 1 Lyme Bay on pelagic trip
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Island lagoon
Cattle Egret - 16 Cowward's Marsh
Balearic Shearwater - 22 Portland Bill, 18 Lyme Bay on pelagic trip
Storm Petrel - 35 Lyme Bay on pelagic trip
Osprey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Weston (Portland), 1 Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Merlin - 1 East Cliffs Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Tidmoor
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Greenlands Farm,  4 Durlston CP, 4 Hengistbury, 3 Portland Bill,  3 Hardy Monument, 2 Hog Hill, 1 Hartland Moor
Pied Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill, 1 trapped at Durlston CP
Redstart - 4 Hartland Moor, 2 Greenlands Farm, 2 Hardy Monument, 1 Hog Hill, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury
Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury, 2 Hog Hill
Yellow Wagtail - 45 East Cliffs Portland, 11 Hartland Moor

Lapwing, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 28th August 2021

Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Golden Plover - 1 St Aldheim's Head
Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit
Temminck's Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, seen briefly on West Scrape and Post Box Pool but no further sign this evening.
Knot - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge
Ruff - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 2 on Meadow Pool at Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 St Aldheim's Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Redstart - 1 St Aldheim's Head
Whinchat - 9 St Aldheim's Head
Yellow Wagtail - 46 St Aldheim's Head, 12 Ferrybridge

Friday 27th August 2021

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Silverlake

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit
Purple Sandpiper - 1 on breakwater at Sandbanks

Knot - 5 Brand's Bay, 1 Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 4 Stanpit, 2 Ferrybridge

Little Stint - 3 (incl 2 on Meadow Pool) at Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 3 Stanpit, 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Silverlake
White-winged Black Tern - a probable at Cuttcleaves Cove (The Fleet)

Osprey - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Wryneck - 1 briefly at Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 South Haven, 1 Winspit, 1 Stanpit
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Hengistbury
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 South Haven, 5 Hengistbury, 3 Stoborough Heath, 2 Greeenlands Farm, 1 Winspit

Pied Flycatcher - 3 Stanpit, 1 Durlston CP

Redstart - 5 Hengistbury, 5 Stoborough Heath, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hartland Moor

Whinchat - 11 West Bexington/Cogden, 3 Greeenlands Farm, 2 Hengistbury, 1 Tout Quarry (Portland), 1 Brand's Bay

Yellow Wagtail - 71 West Bexington/Cogden, 40 over Christchurch Harbour, 12 Hengistbury, 12 in an hour over Compton Valence, 2 Charminster
Tree Pipit - 5 in an hour over Compton Valence

 

Yesterday : on a Lyme Bay pelagic - 220 Balearic Shearwater, 3 Sooty Shearwater, 6 Manx Shearwater, 1 Pomarine Skua, 3 Arctic Skua, 1 Great Skua, 12 Storm Petrel, 1 Little Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Arctic Tern, 30 Common Tern and 1 Sandwich Tern.

Thursday 26th August 2021

 Garganey - Fem/juv Longham Lake

Avocet - 50 Middlebere

Ringed Plover - 101 Ferrybridge, 36 Baiter

Bar-tailed Godwit - 13 Ferrybridge

Knot - 1 Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge

Dunlin - 71 Ferrybridge, 7 Baiter

Little Stint - juvenile at Marsh Meadow Mere, Abbotsbury Swannery

Balearic Shearwater - 8 from Cogden beach

Spoonbill - 10 from Combe viewpoint Arne RSPB

Osprey - 4 Poole Harbour

Wryneck - 1 Cogden

Whitethroat - 70 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Grove Cliff Portland

Redstart - 3 Durlston CP, 5 Cogden, 2 Penn's Weare Portland, a few scattered around Poole Harbour area

Whinchat - 1 Durlston CP, 2 Turlin Moor

Wheatear - c.100 Durlston CP, 12 Ferrybridge, 2 Peverill Point Swanage

Yellow Wagtail - c.50 Durlston CP

Wednesday 25th August 2021

Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Ringed Plover - Radipole

Whimbrel - 3 Redcliffe Point Weymouth

Ruff - 1 Littlesea

White-winged Black Tern - 1 briefly at Ferrybridge and Lodmoor

Balearic Shearwater - 55 from Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 16 Poole Harbour, 14 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great White Egret - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB

Osprey - 1 Portland, 1 Littlesea

Wryneck - 1 Church Knowle, 1 West Bexington

Red-backed Shrike - 1 fem Arne RSPB, 1 1st winter West Bexington

Melodious Warbler - bird from 23rd retrapped at Portland Bird Observatory

Whitethroat - 18 St Aldhelms

Redstart - 2 Hog Hill, 1 Hartland

Whinchat - 5 Hog Hill/Maiden Castle, 3 Littlesea, 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Hartland, 1 Lytchett Fields

Wheatear - 30 Littlesea, 18 St Aldhelms, 15 Hog Hill/Maiden Castle, 1 Hartland

Yellow Wagtail - 150 Portland,60 Littlesea, 35 St Aldhelms

Tree Pipit - 4 Littlesea

Great White Egret, Lodmoor  © Edmund Mackrill

Tuesday 24th August 2021

Egyptian Goose - 9 Swineham

 Black-tailed Godwit - 1085 Holes Bay

Knot - 3 Holes Bay, 1 Ferrybridge

Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham

Redshank - 163 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 15 Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Osprey - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Holes Bay

Red-backed Shrike - 1 West Bexington

Pied Flycatcher - Portland 3, Hengistbury Head 1, Abbotsbury Swannery 1, Cogden Beach 1

Whinchat - 11 Cogden Beach, 2 Hengistbury Head

Wheatear - 26 Cogden Beach, 6 Kimmeridge

Yellow Wagtail - 44 Cogden Beach, 7 over North Chideock

Tree Pipit - 3 Cogden Beach

Monday 23rd August 2021

Ringed Plover - c30 Brownsea Lagoon

 Oystercatcher - c.300 Brownsea Lagoon

Avocet - 24 Middlebere

Black-tailed Godwit - c.90 Middlebere

Knot - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juvenile Ferrybridge

Dunlin - c.100 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere

Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Balearic Shearwater - 325 flew east off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere, 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 over Lytchett Bay

Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory

Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell, Portland

Common Redstart - 1Middlebere

Whinchat - 8 Cogden, 3 Portland

Wheatear - 12 Cogden, 2 Peveril Point Swanage, 2 Durlston CP, 20+ Portland

Yellow Wagtail - 82 Cogden, 2 Durlston CP

Tree Pipit - 3 Portland

Wheatears, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Sunday 22nd August 2021

Great White Egret - 1 Wareham Meadows (from BoPH Birdboat).

Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Is lagoon

Osprey - 5 Poole Hbr, 1 past Portland Bill Obs, Christchurch Hbr.

Spotted Crake - 1 Lodmoor at rear of Post Box Pools

Whimbrel - 100+ Brand's Bay, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1N Wytch Causeway

Swift - 8 over Stanpit Marsh, 2 over Broadcroft Quarry

Spotted Flycatcher - 8 along Arne Rd, 2 Milton Abbas, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Remstone

Redstart - 3 Wytch, 1 Broadcroft Quarry, 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 5 Hartland Moor, 1 Brownsea Is. 

Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Tree Pipit - 7 over Kings Quarry

Pied Flycatcher - Rempstone © Ray Johnson

Saturday 21st August 2021

Balearic Shearwater - 15 Portland Bill, 12 off Chesil

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Is, 1 Middlebere, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Golden Plover - 1 Portland Bill

Avocet - 14 Brownsea Is. lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverlake

Turnstone - 20 Ferrybridge

Curlew Sandpiper - 1juv Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Brownsea Is lagoon

Common Sandpiper - 10 North Shore Brownsea Is, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 18 Lytchett Fields, 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Wareham Meadows on Stilt Pools.

Greenshank - 18 Brownsea Is lagoon, 13 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Silverlake, 1 Portland Bill

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Arctic Skua - 2 off Chesil

Arctic Tern - 6 off Chesil

Yellow-legged Gull - 3 Wareham Water Meadows on Stilt Pools, 1 Portland Bill

Swift - 75 Portlaand Bill

Hobby - 1 Christchurch over Fairmile Rd.

Sand Martin - 30 Ridge

Swallow = 150 Abbotsbury Swannery, 20 Redcliff

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Portland Bill

Wheatear - 12 Maiden Castle, 2 Ferrybridge, 2 Portesham

Osprey - Stanpit, Christchurch Harbour © Mike Gibbons

Friday 20th August 2021

Balearic Shearwater - 11 Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 4 Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1Abbotsbury Swannery

Avocet - 7 Brownsea Is. lagoon

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Lytchett Bay

Knot - 9 Stanpit Marsh

Ruff - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit - 737 NW Holes Bay

Sanderling - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Is lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Holes Bay

Greenshank - 7 Brownsea Is lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Nightjar - 1 in a Weymouth Garden

Swift - 100 Portland Bill, 3 over Stanpit Marsh

Hobby - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Portland Bill

Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Lytchett Bay (trapped & ringed)

Wheatear - 7 Ferrybridge, 5 Stanpit Marsh

immature Booby sp - 1 Portland Bill passing by in loose association with Gannets

Nightjar - Weymouth Garden © Paul Harris

Thursday 19th August 2021

Common Scoter - 3 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bat, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere

Whimbrel - 4 Ferrybridge, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 5 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Greenshank - 5 over Portland Bill

Wood Sandpiper - 1 juv Abbotsbury Swannery

Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Great Skua - 3 Portland Bill

Arctic Tern - 2 juv Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Portland  Bill

Swift - 3 over Hengistbury Hd.

Whitethroat - 27 St Adhelm's Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - in the North Scrubs Hengistbury.

Wheatear - 2 St Aldhems Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - Sev Portland Bill, 2 Sunnyside Fm. 

Tree Pipit - 3 Hengistbury Hd,

Sandwich tern _ Brownsea Island © Nick Hull

Wednesday 18th August 2021

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Knot - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Stanpit
Sanderling - 5 Stanpit, 5 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 1 over Wick
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Middlebere

Cormorant, Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

 

Tuesday 17th August 2021

Red-brested Goose - 1 presumed escape adult in Lytchett Bay
Spotted Crake - 1 juvenile at Lodmoor RSPB at back right edge of Postbox Pool
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit
Knot - 2 Stanpit
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery on Meadow Pool
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 over Wick fields
Osprey - 1 over Littlesea & Brand's Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour
AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay

Monday 16th August 2021.

Brent Goose - 1 Middlebere.
Grey Plover - 1 Holes Bay.
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit.
Knot - 4 Middlebere, 2 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 11 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 5 Ferrybridge.
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge.
Sanderling - 5 Ferrybridge.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere.
Great Skua - 3 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 3 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Swallow - 3 leucistic birds together in Briantspuddle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 10 Lytchett Bay (ringing).
Redstart - 1 Lytchett Bay (ringing).

Wheatear, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Sunday 15th August 2021

Whimbrel - 3 Holes Bay
Knot - 3 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Common Sandpiper - 3 Peveril Point
Swallow - a white bird seen at Higher Hyde Heath

Saturday 14th August 2021.

Grey Partridge - 3 Maiden Castle.
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 2 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge.
Osprey - 2+ Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1+ Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 lower Piddle valley.
Hobby - 1 south over Stanpit.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Tolpuddle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Durlston CP.

Friday 13th August 2021

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Studland
Whimbrel - 3 Brands Bay, 5 Stanpit.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 3+ Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 1 Shell Bay (Studland).
Osprey - 2+ Arne area, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Wareham Channel.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 West Bay.

Sandwich Tern, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Thursday 12th August 2021

Nightjar - 1 in a Bournemouth garden
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 1 Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Cogden Beach
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at YHA Swanage

Pied Flycatcher, YHA Swanage © Garry Hayman

Whitethroat, Bournemouth © David Wareham

Wednesday, 11th August 2021.

Whimbrel - 1 east past Cogden.
Arctic Skua - 2 west past Cogden.
Osprey - 3-4 Arne area.
Wood Warbler - 1 Portland Bill Observatory Quarry.
Grasshopper Warbler - 8 Durlston CP, 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill Observatory.
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.

Sandwich Tern, Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Tuesday 10th August 2021

Egyptian Goose - 9 Holme Lane GP

Pochard - 1 Holme Land GP

Ringed Plover - 182 Ferrybridge, 40 Christchurch Harbour, 21 Brands Bay

Whimbrel - 9 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Hole Bay Cobbs Quay

Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island NT Lagoon

Common Sandpiper - Christchurch Harbour

Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 2  Brownsea Island NT Lagoon

Sedge Warbler - 100 Christchurch Harbour, 100 Portland Bill, 15 Cogden

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Weymouth (private garden)

Wheatear - 4 Hartland Moor 

Common Sandpiper - Lodmoor RSPB

Monday 9th August 2021

Mandarin Duck - 1 Juv East Holme

Avocet - 5 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Ringed Plover - 90 Ferrybridge, 21 Christchurch Harbour, 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Brands Bay, 1 Lodmoor RPSB

Black-tailed Godwit - 508 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Dunlin - 70 Ferrybridge

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 4 Pevril Point Swanage

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Fisherman's bank Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 9 South Marsh Christchurch Harbour

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Wheatear - 7 Ferrybridge

Yesterday:

Merlin - 1 Gussage Down

Black Tern - 1 Hengisbury Head (flew west)

Kestrel - Durlston CP  ©Garry Hayman

Sunday 8th August 2021

Whimbrel - 3 Brands Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 44 Brands Bay

Dunlin - 10 Brands Bay

 Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Redshank - 56 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere

Greenshank - 2 Middlebere

Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere

Cattle Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hobby - 1 over North Chideock

yesterday: 3 Balearic Shearwater passed Portland Bill

Juvenile Cuckoo, West Moors  © Roy Nicklin

Saturday 7th August 2021

 Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere

Black-tailed Godwit - 245 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Redshank - 105 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: 2 Balearic Shearwater through off Portland Bill

Friday 6th August 2021

 Greylag Goose - 149 Silverlake

Egyptian Goose - 18 Silverlake

Garganey - 1 Lodmoor

Black-tailed Godwit - 373 Holes Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Greenshank - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay

Great Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay

Balearic Shearwater - 3 west from Cogden Beach

Little Owl, Abbotsbury  © Sue and Tony Wingett

Juvenile Mediterranean Gull, Lodmoor © Edmund Mackrill

Thursday 5th August 2021

Black-tailed Godwit - 170+ Holes Bay

Knot - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit

 Ruff - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Dunlin - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields, RSPB, 4 Lodmoor, 1 Holes Bay, 6 Stanpit

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 4 Christchurch Harbour

Redshank - 22 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 40 Holes Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Cattle Egret - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Yesterday - 9 Balearic Shearwater flew past Portland Bill

Wednesday 4th August 2021

Quail - 1 Stanpit Marsh, North End
Garganey - 1 probable, Longham Lakes
Ruff - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh, inlet at South Marsh
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh, North Scruba
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit Marsh, North Scrubs

Yesterday:

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Greenshank, Middlebere © Garry Hayman

Tuesday 3rd August 2021

Little Ringed Plover - 1 East Fleet
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Durlston CP

Yesterday:

Knot - 4 Ferrybridge
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Portland Bill

Great White Egret etc!, Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam

Monday 2nd August 2021

Quail - 2 singing males, Witchampton
Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Mrsh
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere
Melodious Warbler - 1 Durlston CP
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday:

Manx Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill
Tree Pipit - 1 overhead at Portland Bill

Greenfinch, Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam

Sunday 1st August 2021

Quail - 1 Cranborne
Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Arne RSPB, from Coombe Heath
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Arne RSPB, from Coombe Heath
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne RSPB, from Raptor Screen
Osprey - 1 from Hydes Heath RSPB

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Bearded Tit, male juvenile @ Radipole RSPB
© Verity Hill

Sandwich Tern, Weymouth © Edmund Mackrill