Tuesday 31st May 2022

 Quail - 1 heard at Nine Barrow Down

Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere

Marsh Harrier - female flew over Winspit

Peregrine - 3 chicks now visible on Barclays building Christchurch

From yesterday : 2 Glossy Ibis flew north in Christchurch Harbour

Monday 30th May 2022

Quail - 1 Witchampton
Glossy Ibis - 2 Lodmoor RSPB 5.40am then flew through Christchurch Harbour 7.40am
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 IOW released bird, Wareham Channel
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 from Visitor Centre, Radipole RSPB

Yesterday: -
Arctic Skua - 3 West off Portland Bill
Puffin - 1 off Auk Colony at Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 West off Portland Bill

Sand Martins, Radipole RSPB © Maurice Whitney

Glossy Ibis, yesterday at Radipole RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Little Egret, River Stour, Blandford © Rebecca Cooke

Sunday 29th May

Garganey- 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Glaucous Gull - 1st summer on Lyme Regis beach

Gull-billed Tern - 1 Radipole Lake

Glossy Ibis - 2 Radipole Lake

Spoonbill - 1 Arne RSPB

 Red Kite - 3 over Charlton Down, c. 12 over Netherbury

White-tailed Eagle - released immature over Wareham Channel

Gull-billed Tern, Radipole Lake  © Vaughan Ashby

Saturday 28th May 2022

Egyptian Goose - 10 Cowards Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere

Red Kite - 97 over Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Bothenhampton, 1 Piddletown

Hobby - 2 Lower Bockhampton, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Silverlake

Garden Warbler - 1 Silverlake

Turnstone - Lyme Regis Cobb

Friday 27th May 2022

Alpine Swift - 1 Old Harry Rocks

Red Kite - 15+ Pyemore Bridport, 5  Bere Regis

White tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour (G801 & G819 IOW Reintroductions)

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cogden Beach 2nd field east of car park

Puffin - Dancing Ledge

Thursday 26th May 2022

Alpine Swift - 1 Old Harry Rocks

Purple Sandpiper  - 5 Lyme Regis Cobb

Little Gull - 1 first summer Swineham, 1 Portland Bill

Glaucous Gull - 1  2nd summer Culverwell Portland

Iceland Gull - 1   2nd Summer SilverLake

Sooty Shearwater - 1 Past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 2 Lower Frome Wareham

Bee-eater - 1 heard Portland Port

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cogden Beach 2nd field east of car park

Garden warbler - 1 Silverlake west of Western Lake

Serin - 1 Portland Obs 

Alpine Swift - Old Harry Rocks ©James Leaver

 

Wednesday 25th May 2022

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Ringed Plover - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 South Haven, 2 lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 5 South Haven

Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill flying East

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cogden Beach.

Yesterday: Puffin  - 5 Dancing Ledge

Whimbrel - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Brent Goose - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 24th May 2022.

Cuckoo - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Slepe Heath.
Whimbrel - 1 heard East Parley.
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Lyme Regis (The Cobb).
Sanderling - 15 Lyme Regis (Monmouth Beach).
Caspian Gull - 1 Portland Bill.
Bee-eater - 1 Portland Bill.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cogden Beach.

Song Thrush, Iford © Clinton Whale

Monday 23rd May 2022.

Cuckoo - 1 Wick & Stanpit.
Turtle Dove - 1 over Christchurch Harbour.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere.
Caspian Gull - 1 Brownsea Island.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 6 over Ballard Down, 1 Lytchett Fields, 19+ over Portland, 20 over Swanage.
Hobby - 1 East Parley.
Common Rosefinch - 1 heard central Portland.

Sunday 22nd May 2022

Nightjar - 1 Brownsea
Cuckoo - 1 St. Catherine's Hill, Christchurch, 1 Tolpuddle
Knot - 1 from Fisherman's Bank, Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 7 West from Bride Valley Fish Farm
Red Kite - 6 Litton Cheney
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Solent Meads Driving Range
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Tolpuddle, 1 Wick Wooden Bridge

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 3 off Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c20 off Portland Bill

Stonechat, St. Catherine's Hill, Christchurch © Clinton Whale

Cattle Egret, Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam

Nightjar, Brownsea © Dave Harrap

Saturday 21st May 2022

Caspian Gull - 1 probable, Brownsea Lagoon
Roseate Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 4 Lytchett Fields
Great White Egret - 1 River Stour, Child Okeford
Red Kite - 2 Maiden Castle
Golden Oriole - 1 Arne
Wheatear  - 7 Maiden Castle
Corn Bunting - 20+ Maiden Castle

Grey Heron, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Friday 20th May 2022

Nightjar - 1 Sugar Hill, Wareham
Whimbrel - 2 The Fleet
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea lagoon
Golden Oriole - 1 Grove Stadium, Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 West Cliffs, Portland

Peregrine, Poole  © Maurice Whitney

Thursday 19th May 2022

Nightjar - 2 Morden Bog
Cuckoo - 3 Morden Bog, 1 Briantspuddle
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Mudeford Sandspit Groynes
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 1 off Hengistbury Head
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Red Kite - 1 Charborough Park
Hobby - 4 Longham Lakes, 2 Morden Bog
Redstart - 2 Morden Bog
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 4 off Portland Bill
Ballearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Wheatear, Crouch Hill © Clinton Whale

Blue Tit, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

Mute Swan Cygnets, Blandford © Mike Kirby

Grey Wagtail, Blandford © Mike Kirby

Wednesday 18th May 2022.

Black-winged Stilt - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery.

Grey Plover - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Greenshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Sanderling - 12 Christchurch Harbour.
Little Stint - 1 briefly over Stanpit.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Gull-billed Tern - a possible in NW Poole Harbour/Wareham Channel.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Red Kite - 2 over Brownsea Island.
Hobby - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Golden Oriole - 1 Brownsea Island.

Mallard at Iford © Clinton Whale

Blackbird at Stanpit © Dave Hill.

Jackdaw at Stanpit © Dave Hill.

Wheatear at Stanpit © Dave Hill.

Tuesday 17th May 2022.

Velvet Scoter - 1 Branksome Chine.
Cuckoo - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Morden Bog.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 8 Mudeford sandspit, 2 Stanpit.
Common Gull - 1 Chesil Beach.
Little Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Little Tern - 1 Branksome Chine.
Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 1  Hengistbury Head.
Manx Shearwater - 3 Chesil Beach.
Squacco Heron - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 1 Portland East Cliffs, 1 Stanpit.
Hobby - 1 Upton Heath, 1 Woodbury.
Bee-eater - 1 Coryates.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 1-2 Hengistbury Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Stanpit, 1 Tolpuddle.
Nightingale - 1 western Poole Harbour.

Monday 16th May 2022

Nightjar - 1 sound recorded over Bridport last night
Cuckoo - 1 Upton, 1 Moreton Plantation
Whimbrel - 1 Herbury (The Fleet)
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 9 Herbury (The Fleet)
Little Gull - 2 off Hengistbury
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Poole, in private garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Upton

Tawny Owl, Littlesea (The Fleet) © Freddy Alway

 

Sunday 15th May 2022

Cuckoo - 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Frome Valley
Garganey - 1 drake at Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Stint - 2 briefly at Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Shell Bay
Manx Shearwater -  1 St Aldhelm's Head
Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 13 Worgret
Great White Egret - 1 Frome Valley
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby - 1 Frome Valley, 1 Longham Lakes
Wood Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour (Ashtree Meadows)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Harbour (Ashtree Meadows), 1 St Aldhelm's Head quarry, 1 Lytchett Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Starling, Woodville © John Bishop

 

Saturday 14th May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Glaucous Gull - 3rd cy at Lodmoor RSPB again
Iceland Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 12 East Holme
Honey-buzzard - 1 in off the sea at St Aldhelm's Head
Hen Harrier - 1 over Swineham GPs
Hobby - 1 over West Compton
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Black Redstart - 1 Dancing Ledge

Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

 

Friday 13th May 2022

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 5 Weymouth Bay
Cuckoo - 1 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 4 Ringstead Bay, 3 Rodden Hive
Sanderling - 6 Herbury (The Fleet), 6 Christchurch Harbour
Glaucous Gull - 3rd cy at West Bexington and another (same?) Lodmoor RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Hoopoe - 1 Charminster
Bee-eater -1 Portland Bill, mobile but not seen since early afternoon
Spotted Flycatcher - 11-20 around Hengistbury/Wick area
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Wood
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head

Little Egret, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Mute Swan, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Common Sandpiper, Tuckton © Dave Hill

 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Tuckton © Dave Hill

   

Thursday 12th May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Litton Cheney, 1 Morden Bog

Whimbrel - 11 Charmouth

 Sanderling - 12 Charmouth, 98 Studland Beach

Purple Sandpiper - 10 Cobb Wall Lyme Regis

Common Sandpiper - 1 Charmouth

Caspian Gull - 1st summer in Crown Estate fields Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 2 past Charmouth

Great Northern Diver - 8 past Portland Bill, 1 past Charmouth

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Osprey - 1 over Morden Bog

Hoopoe - 1 Charminster

Yesterday's Red-necked Phalarope, Pilot's Point Studland © Aidan Brown

House Martin, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper

Rock Pipit, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Common Sandpiper, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 11th May 2022

Wigeon - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 1 Holloway's Dock

Black-tailed Godwit - 104 Holloway's Dock

Sanderling - c.50 Pilot's Point Shell Bay, 19 Christchurch Harbour beach

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Pilot's Point Studland

Greenshank - 1 Holloway's Dock

Little Gull - 1st summer past Mudeford Quay

 Glaucous Gull - 1 probable flew from Lodmoor to Weymouth Bay

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 1 past Mudeford Quay

Great Northern Diver - 12 past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater  - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Cattle Egret - 5 Wareham, 3 Middlebere

Short-eared Owl - 1 in the dunes at Studland

Blackcap, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Purple Sandpiper, Peveril Point © Steve Peppiatt

Tuesday 10th May 2022

 Brent Goose - 3 Brands Bay Studland, 1 Stanpit

Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel -3 Brands Bay Studland, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Stanpit

Turnstone - 2 Peveril Point Swanage

Knot - 4 Brownsea NT

Purple Sandpiper - 19 The Cobb Lyme Regis, 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Little Tern - 2 Lytchett Bay

Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Lodmoor and Weymouth Bay, 2 on lagoon Brownsea Island NT

Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill, 4 past Chesil Cove, 1 past Camp Road Wyke Regis

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP

Dipper - 1 on River Lim Lyme Regis

Common Tern, Brownsea NT © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Common Tern, Brownsea NT © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Monday 9th May 2022

Barnacle Goose - 3 Silverlake

Whimbrel - 1 Herbury, The Fleet, 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Rodden Hive, 6 Ferrybridge

Knot - 1 opposite Langton Hive Point, The Fleet, 4 Brownsea Island

Sanderling - 10 Herbury, The Fleet

Purple Sandpiper - 11 on the Rock,  Lyme Regis

Greenshank - 3 Rodden Hive

Little Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Head

 Roseate Tern - 1 flew east Hengistbury

Black Tern - 6 off Portland Bill, 

Arctic Tern - 1 Hengistbury,

Pomarine Skua - 24 past Hengistbury Head, 6 flew east Durlston CP, 1 past Portland Bill, 2 Charmouth, 

2 east from Chesil Cove

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Red Kite - 4 over Slepe Heath

Sunday 8th May 2022

Garganey - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Red-throated Diver - 1 Chesil Cove

Black-throated Diver - 1 ad/sum Chesil Cove

Cattle Egret - 4 Lower Frome Valley

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Red Kite - 3 Lytchett Maltravers, 3 Maiden Castle, 3 Iwern Minster, 2 Wareham Forest, 1 Child Okeford

Osprey - 2 over Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Whimbrel - 10 Wareham Channel, 2 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Arctic Skua - 4 Chesil Cove

Little Tern - 24 Ferrybridge

Arctic Tern - 12E Chesil Cove

Woodchat Shrike - 1 1st/sum fem. Portland Bill

Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 3 Ferrybridge

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Reap Lane Portland

Dartford Warbler _ Talbot Heath © Vincent Blood

Saturday 7th May 2022

Cattle Egret - 4 in the Lower Frome Valley

Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Eype, 1 West Compton

White-tailed Eagle - 1 imm Wareham Channel (IoW Intro)

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail in off sea Portland Bill

Putative Eastern (Siberian) Common Tern - 1 again Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Gull - 1ad Hengistbury Hd again on the HHC mudbar.

Swift - 4 Longham Lakes, 2 Portland Bill, 1 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Durlston CP.

Hobby - 1 over Wareham Channel, 1 over Longham Lakes

Swallow - 24 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill

Redstart - 1 Portland Bill

Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill, 21 St Aldhelm's Hd, 4 Hengistbury Hd, 4 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 3 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Bar-tailed Godwit - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Friday 6th May 2022

Barnacle Goose - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 11 Lynch Cove, 2E Hengistbury Hd, 1 Portland Bill

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lynch Cove, 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Wood Sandpiper - 1W Abbotsbury Swannery

Putative Eastern (Siberian) Common Tern (longipennis) - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Little Gull - 1ad  Hengistbury Hd on HHC mudbar)

Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes

Swift - 1 Longham Lakes

Ringed Plover - Hengistbury Hd © Clinton Whale

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh - © Dave Hill

Common Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill

Thursday 5th May 2022

Brent Goose - 1 East Marsh Stanpit

Garganey - 1 drake Lodmoor RSPB

Red-throated Diver - 1 west Hengistbury Hd.

Cattle Egret - 4 Holes Bay, 4 Wareham South River Frome.

Whimbrel - 3 Herbury, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Portland Hbr.

Sanderling - 4 Charmouth, 3 from Mudeford Quay

Purple Sandpiper - 1 from Mudeford Quay

Common Sandpiper - 1 from Mudeford Quay

Swift - 2 Bridport, 1 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 Herbury, 1 Lydlinch

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Wakeham Portland

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 3 Portland Bill

Leucorhoa (Greenland) Wheatear Hengistbury Hd.

Serin - 1 over north Blacknor Portland

Drake Garganey Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Membury

Wednesday 4th May 2022

Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fileds RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Nightjar - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Brownsea Island

Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little ringed Plover - 2 Radipole RSPB, 3 Lytchetts fields RSPB

Bar tailed Godwit - 36 Brownsea Lagoon,  35 Ferrybridge

Knot - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Gull - 1 off Bournemouth Pier

Arctic Tern - 1 off Bournemouth Pier

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - Poole Harbour BoPH  safari cruise 

White tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel BoPH  safari cruise (IoW Reintroduction)

Bearded Tit - Swineham BoPH  safari cruise 

Garden Warbler - 1 Easton Portland

Tree Pipit - 1 Easton Portland

Serin - 1 Portland Bill flew over Obs garden

Garganey - Lodmoor RSPB ©Daragh  Croxson

lesser Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Grey Wagtail - Longham Lakes ©Ron Poulter

Tuesday 3rd May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 calling between Bridging Camp & Littlesea

Little ringed Plover - 3 Radipole RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fileds RSPB

Bar tailed Godwit - 45 Ferrybridge

Wood sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB postbox pool

Arctic Skua - 1 East past Durlston CP

Great Northern Diver - 1 flying west off Durlston CP

Manx shearwater - 4 flew west Durlston CP

Spoonbill - 5 middlebere, 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 3 flew down piddle Valley nr wareham

Garden Warbler - 10 The Hump Portland

Ring Ouzel - 2 Portland Bill top field

Whinchat - 2  Portland Bill top field

Ring Ouzel - Portland ©Daniel Law

Cormorant - Longham Lakes ©Roger Peart