Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit
Roseate Tern - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 over Stanpit
Great White Egret - 1 over Stanpit
Osprey - 2 chicks ringed at Poole Harbour - first for Dorset (5H1 & 5H2)
Monday 4th July 2022
Sunday 3rd July 2022
Quail - at least 2 singing alongside Dorchester to Piddlehinton Road
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit
Great White Egret - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Bride Valley Fish Farm
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Lesser Whitethroat - 6 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP
Black Redstart - family in a Poole garden
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Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale |
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Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale |
Saturday 2nd July 2022.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury sandspit.
Manx Shearwater - 78 in 3.5 hours from Hengistbury and Mudeford; c500 off Portland Bill.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Red Kite - 1 Blandford.
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge.
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Corn Bunting, Charminster © Colin Chainey |
Friday 1st July 2022.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 18 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Red Kite - 3 near Blandford.
Hobby - 2 near Swanage.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Little Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Thursday 30th June 2022
Roseate Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Arctic Skua - 1 West off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 9 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 East off Portland Bill
Osprey - 1 near Wareham Forest, 1 over Wareham Channel
Goshawk - 1 East over Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Corfe Castle
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Crouch Hill, Stanpit, 1 North Scrubs, Stanpit
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Sandwich Tern, Brownsea © Clare Slade |
Great Spotted Woodpecker, West Moors © Roy Nicklin |
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Lapwing, Stanpit © Clinton Whale |
Wednesday 29th June 2022
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Mediterranean Gull, Black-headed Gull - Monmouth Beach © Roger Boswell |
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Peregrine Christchurch © Dave Hill |
Tuesday 28th June 2022
Monday 27th June 2022
Sunday 26th June 2022
Saturday 25th June 2022
Friday 24th June 2022
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Great white Egret - Lodmoor RSPB ©Daniel Law |
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Great Spotted Woodpecker ©Roy Nickil |
Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Grey Heron - Brands Bay |
Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Tuesday 21st June 2022
Monday 20th June 2022
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Red kite - 1 near West Bay, 1 near Throop Mill
Hobby - 1 over Radipole RSPB, from Tennis Courts
Yesterday: -
Roseate Tern - 1 off Long Groyne, Hengistbury Head
Crossbill - Small group over Rempstone, heading South
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Mute Swan and Cygnets, River Stour, Iford © Clinton Whale |
Sunday 19th June 2022
Quail - 1 Maiden Castle
Cuckoo - 1 Bog Lane, R. Frome Flood Fields, 1 Slepe Heath
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 over Poundbury, Dorchester, 1 Larksmead, Blandford
Yesterday: -
Great Skua - 1 West off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 30+ off Portland Bill
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Bearded Tit, Radipole RSPB © Graham Jaggard |
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Kingfisher, River Stour, Blandford © Sharon Towning |
Saturday 18th June 2022
Friday 17th June 2022
Thursday 16th June 2022
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 heard in Lytchett Heath area
Roseate Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Rempstone Heath
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wednesday 15th June 2022
Monday 13th June 2022
Sunday 12th June 2022
Saturday 11th June 2022
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Rose-coloured Starling, Swanage © David Blakeley |
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Juvenile Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham |
Friday 10th June 2022
Thursday 9th June 2022
Wednesday 8th June 2022.
Turnstone - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Portland Bill.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Arne.
Sanderling - 7 N past Hengistbury Head, 14 Portland Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 1 E past Hengistbury Head.
Manx Shearwater - c.100 past Portland Bill.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel (G801 from IoW reintroduction scheme).
Red Kite - 1 Blandford.
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Sedge Warbler, Stanpit © Aspen Stobart. |
Common Tern, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter. |
Tuesday 7th June 2022.
Common Sandpiper - 2 near Hurn.
Caspian Gull - a possible bird in Poole.
Cattle Egret - 1 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Poole Harbour.
Hobby - 1 over Merley.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill.
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Nightjar, Morden Bog © Aspen Stobart. |
Monday 6th June 2022.
Cuckoo - 1 King Down, 1 Wick.
Sanderling - 7 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit.
Great Skua - 1 E past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Red Kite - 1 Blandford.
Sunday 5th June 2022
Saturday 4th June 2022
Friday 3rd June 2022
Thursday 2nd June 2022
Wednesday 1st June 2022
Marsh Tit, Lydlinch Common © Matt Cooper |
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Spotted Flycatcher, Morden Bog © Aspen Stobart |