Wednesday 31st August 2022

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB (seen from tennis courts)
Sanderling - 5 Brand's Bay
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Curlew Sandpiper -  1 still at Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Spoonbill - 36 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 near Rodden Hive
Yellow Wagtail - 14 Wareham Common, c12 Lodmoor RSPB, 6 over Bulbarrow Hill
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Wyke Down
Whinchat -1 Brand's Bay, 1 Silverlake, 7 Wyke Down

Yesterday : a Wryneck flew into a shop window at Castlepoint Shopping Centre Bournemouth, recovered and flew off.

Yellow Wagtail, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

Black-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale

Spoonbill, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale

 

Tuesday 30th August 2022

Grey Partridge - 21 St Aldhelm's Head
Cuckoo - a juvenile at St Adlhelm's Head
Golden Plover - 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brand's Bay (Redhorn Quay), 1 on the Fleet at Herbury, 1 Ferrybridge this evening
Balearic Shearwater - 256 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 left roost at Christchurch Harbour this morning
Spoonbill - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 7 left roost at Christchurch Harbour this morning, 1 Wareham WMs, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 released birds in Lytchett Bay area, 1 over Whitchampton
Osprey - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit (1H9 ringed at Rutland Water on 27th June)
Hobby - 1 over Marnhull
Whinchat -2 Didlington (near Moor Crichel)

Curlew Sandpiper, Herbury © Freddy Alway

 

Monday 29th August 2022

 Grey Partridge - 2 plus 11 chicks in a garden at Farnham near Chettle

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit

Wood Sandpiper 2 Lodmoor

Greenshank - 1 Warmwell Cress beds

Glossy Ibis - North Marsh, Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 34 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 over Brownsea Island, 1 Portland, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 9 Poole Harbour

Honey Buzzard - 1 Holton Heath, 1 Wimborne St Giles

White-tailed Eagle - 1 female introduction Lytchett Bay, 

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert's Castle Hill, 1 Studland Village, 1 near Athelhampton, 1 The Batters, 

4 Brands Bay

Redstart - 2 Lambert's Castle Hill, 2 The Batters

Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle, 3 Hartland Moor, 2 The Batters, 3 Brands Bay

Wheatear - 5 Maiden Castle, 4 Hartland Moor

Yesterday;

Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill

Common Redstart, Lamberts Castle Hill  © Richard Charmouth Birder

Yellow Wagtail, Lodmoor © Loy Stobart

Little Owl, Portland © Loy Stobart

Sunday 28th August 2022.

Knot - 8 Christchurch Harbour.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Arne, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Poole Quay.
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne Moors and Lytchett Bay (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields, 8 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down area.
Goshawk - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 Ham Common/Arne, 2 Maiden Newton, 1 Wareham Channel.
Kestrel - 6+ Maiden Castle.
Dipper - 1 R. Frome west of Dorchester.
Whinchat - 1 Hartland Moor, 3 Ringstead Bay, 4 Wyke Down.
Common Redstart - 1 Maiden Castle.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit.

Redshank, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Saturday 27th August 2022.

Swift - 4 St Aldhelm's Head.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Knot - 2 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 9 Brownsea Island, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Middlebere.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island. 1 Swineham.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Wareham Channel.
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 briefly on Stanpit this morning.
Balearic Shearwater - 246 past Portland Bill, 8 St Aldhelm's Head.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea Island, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston CP, 2 Middlebere, 2 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 2 near Melbury Abbas.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Channel.
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill.
Yellow Wagtail - 205 West Bay.
Whinchat - 4 Portland Bill, 7 West Bay.
Common Redstart - 4 Hartland Moor, 1 Rushcombe Bottom LNR, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes.

Friday 26th August 2022.

Wigeon - 1 Holes Bay.
Shoveler - 8 Swineham.
Swift - 8 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cattle Egret - 7 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Fields (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 5-6 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Wareham Channel.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit, 1 Wareham Common.
Common Redstart - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 3 Soldiers' Road, 2 Wareham Common.
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Wareham Common.

Thursday 25th August 2022.

Common Scoter - 1 Wareham Channel was unusual for the location.
Swift - 25+ over Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Knot - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Ruff - 1 west over Christchurch Harbour.
Spotted Redshank - 1 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 3 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 4 Christchurch Harbour, 17 Lytchett Fields, 5 Middlebere.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 14 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere.
Little Stint - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Cattle Egret - 1 north over Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 26 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Fields (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 3+ Lytchett Fields.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Stanpit.
Montagu's Harrier - 1 probable Portland Bill.
Red Kite - 1 near Cashmoor, 1 Shapwick.
Wryneck - 1 Burnbake.
Citrine Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 

     1 Piddle Valley, 1 Portland Bill.
Common Redstart - 1 Ballard Down, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 

     3 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 5 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Wood Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.

Wryneck, Burnbake © Sarah Matthews.

Common Scoter, Poole Harbour © Clive Hargrave.

Wednesday 24th August 2022

 Golden Pheasant- 1 adult male at Holton Lee

Avocet - 2 Stanpit

Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor

Little Stint - 2 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 3 Lodmoor

Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 near Morden Bog

Osprey - 2 Morden Bog NNR

Red Kite - 1 Blandford

White-tailed Eagle - released immature around Wareham Channel

Wryneck - 1 briefly at Cogden Beach

Pied Flycatcher - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Easton Portland, 1 Ballard Down, 2 Ashmore, 1 Soldier's Road

Yesterday:

Balearic Shearwater 9 past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Peregrine Falcon, Christchurch Priory  © Clinton Whale

Golden Pheseant, Holton Heath © OTBT Birder

Pied Flycatcher, Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

Spoonbill, Brownsea Island © Hamish Murray

Tuesday 23rd August 2022

 Curlew  - 19 Holes Bay, 92 Brands Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 410 Holes Bay, 212 Brands Bay

Knot - 1 Holes Bay, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Little Stint - 2 Sherford Pool

Redshank - 148 Holes Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Wick

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sabine's Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Middlebere, 22 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Osprey - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour, a few over Poole Harbour

Honey Buzzard - 1 Lower Piddle Valley

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour

Hobby - 1 Rushcombe LNR

Woodlark - 5 Stoborough Heath

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Slepe Heath

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Soldier's Road, 2 Hengistbury

Redstart - 2 Soldier's Road, 1 Stoborough Heath

Whinchat - 2 Hog Hill (Maiden Castle)

Wheatear - 9 Tarrant Rushton

Yesterday:

Balearic Shearwater - 14 past Portland Bill

Pied Flycatcher - 5 Portland

Monday 22nd August 2022

Avocet - 9 Brownsea Island Lagoon

 Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor

Black-tailed Godwit - 548 Holes Bay

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Grey Phalarope - 1 off Cogden Beach

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley, Wareham

Spotted Redshank - 7 Middlebere

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juvenile off Cogden Beach, 1 Lytchett Fields

Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Cogden Beach

Glossy Ibis - 1 at Knapp Mill Coward's Marsh

Spoonbill - 1 Swineham Point, 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor

Osprey - 5 between mouth of River Piddle and Lytchett Bay

White-tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel

Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed Portland Bird Observatory

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Ballard Gap

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Easton Portland

Yesterday:

Balearic Shearwater - 59 west past Portland Bill

Temminck's Stint 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sunday 21st August 2022

Cuckoo - 1 immature, Hartland Moor
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley
Green Sandpiper - 2 Redbridge Quarry, Crossways, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 1 juv from pelagic from Weymouth
Sooty Shearwater - 1 from pelagic from Weymouth
Balearic Shearwater - 2 from pelagic from Weymouth
Arctic Skua - 1 from pelagic from Weymouth
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Mudeford Quay
White-tailed Eagle - 1F released bird, Poole Harbour
Hobby - 1 Poole Harbour
Melodious Warbler - 1 retrap Portland Bird Observatory
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ringed Wyke Farm
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor CP
Redstart - 1F Lambert's Castle
Tree Pipit - 2 ringed Lytchett Bay

Yesterday: -

Hobby - 1 Rempstone Wood, 1 Cheselbourne
Marsh Tit - 1 Rempstone Wood

Osprey, Christchurch Harbour © Clinton Whale

Kingfisher, Radipole RSPB © Neil Bowler

Saturday 20th August 2022

Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Swineham, 1 Priory Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 1 Warmwell Cress Beds
Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 90 off Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Crouch Hill
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 Priory Marsh
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holton Lee, 1 from Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 7 Portland Bill, 1 Avalanche Road
Redstart - 1 Littlesea Obs
Whinchat - 1 Wyke Down
Tree Pipit - 9 Portland Bill

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 17 off Portland Bill
Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill
Tree Pipit - 5 Long Field, Hengistbury

Pied Flycatcher, Christchurch Harbour © David John Faulkner

Greenshank, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Whinchat, Stanpit Marsh © Jackie Smith

Friday 19th August 2022

Golden Plover - 1 Juv Lytchett Fields
Grey Plover - 1 Lytchett Bay
Whimbrel - 1 Tidmoor Cove
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Southern End, 1 Point Pools, Swineham
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 6 or 7 Poole Harbour, inc 1 Lytchett Bay
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 reintroduced birds over Rockley
Hobby - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Rushcombe LNR
Icterine Warbler - 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Pied Flycatcher - 4 Lodmoor CP, 1 Avalanche Road Hump
Whinchat - 1 South Haven, Studland NNR

Yesterday: -

Manx Shearwater - 1 west off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 10 west off Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Ferrybridge
Tree Pipit - 4 over Portland Bill

Unspecified Date: - 

Grey Partridge - 45 counted in 4 coveys - Milborne St. Andrew

Pied Wagtail, Holes Bay © Pat Poole

 

Knot, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman
 

 

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney

Thursday 18th August 2022

Grey Plover - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Brands Bay
Ringed Plover - 236 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Bight, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory marsh, 1 South Bingham Reservoir, South End
Black-headed Gull - 600 mostly juvenile at West Bay, off East Beach
Black Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Glossy Ibis - 1 Crouch Hill Scrape
Osprey - 3 or 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 or 2 Wareham Channel
Melodious Warbler - 1 ringed Crown Estate Fields, Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Sandy Point, Stdland
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory
Pied Flycatcher - 7 Portland Bird Observatory, 4 Reap Lane, 2 Durlston, 2 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 4 Durlston, 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Wick, 1 PC World Drain
Whinchat - 1 Stoborough Heath
Tree Pipit - 7 over Stanpit Marsh

Sandwich Tern, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 17th August 2022

Grey Partridge - 2 Hartland Moor
Ringed Plover - 148 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Brownsea Island
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 15+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge
Greenshank - 14 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 1 Rushcombe Brook
Yellow-legged Gull - 4 adults at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Spoonbill - 19 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Hobby - 1 over Wakeham (Portland)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Tolpuddle Manor
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head

Dunlin, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 16th August 2022

Nightjar - 4 ringed last night on Brownsea Island
Cuckoo - 1 juvenile ealy morning at Wareham Common
Ringed Plover - 118 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit,  2 Brand's Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Sanderling - 4 Stanpit, 3 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory Marsh, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 18 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holton Pools
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 unringed female at Middlebere Channel
Hobby - 1 Long Bredy
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Nursery
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Nursery
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Wareham Common with cattle
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head

Yesterday : a White Stork flew over DWT Brooklands Farm, Forston.

Monday 15th August 2022

Ringed Plover - 103 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 7 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 flushed by the White-tailed Eagle in the Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1  released bird seem at the Warham Channel and over Hamworthy
Hobby - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Heath, 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sunday 14th August 2022

Balearic Shearwater - 1 west

Cattle Egret - 6 Christchurch Hbr, 2 over West Bexington

White-tailed Eagle - 1 north over Winterborne Kingston (Presumed IoW intro)

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay (both un-ringed)

Grey Plover - 1 sum/plum Brownsea Is.

Little Ringed Plover - 1Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 12 Christchurch Hbr.

Green Sandpiper - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Priory Marsh

Woodcock - 2 Lytchett Bay

Swift - 10 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 through over Ferrybridge

Sand Martin - 90+ St Aldhelm's Hd, 20 Portland Bill, 2 Lytchett Bay

Swallow - 25 Portland Bill, 20+ St Aldhelm's Hd, 6 Lytchett Bay

House Martin - 5 Lytchett Bay, 2 St Aldhelm's Hd,

Willow Warbler - 30 Portland Bill, 20+ Rempstone, 15 Christchurch Hbr.

Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Whitethroat - 10 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Two River meadow embankment Christchurch

AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (Not in public area)

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Studland Village, 5 Edmondsham, 3 Remstone, 3 Talbot Woods, 2 Thorncombe Wood.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Southwell, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Redstart - 2 Rempstone

Whinchat - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Barleycrates Lane

Wheatear - 50 Portland Bill, 8 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Ballard Down

Corn Bunting - 2 Ballard Down (First record in Poole Harbour recording area since 2010)

Spotted Flycatcher Thorncombe © Chris Churchill

Wheatear - Crouch Hill Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Saturday 13th August 2022

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sooty Shearwater - 1 West Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 50+ Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 1 Middlebere (unringed), 2+ Lytchett Bay

Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wimborne St. Giles

Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory Marsh

Swift - 4 Wyke Down

Sand Martin - 6 St. Aldhelm"s Hd.

Swallow - 25  St. Aldhelm"s Hd.

Whitethroat - 11  St. Aldhelm"s Hd.

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill

AQUATIC WARBLER - 2 Lytchett Bay

Spotted Flycatcher - 15 Lambert's castle, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Middlebere

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill and singles Southwell, Wytch, Lambert's Castle, St Aldhelm's, Hardy's Monument, Sweethill, 1 Littlsea (Fleet)

Whinchat - 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 70 Portland Bill, 13 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Marnhull

Coal Tit - Upton Country Park © Nick Hull

Friday 12th August 2022

Balearic Shearwater - 11 on sea 

White Stork - 29 Sutton Bingham Res. (Knepp intro released birds)

Glossy Ibis - Stanpit Marsh early a.m.

Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea lagoon, 1 over Wareham Train Station

Osprey - 1 Middlebere(un-ringed), 1 Lytchett Bay 

Whimbrel - 4 Ltchett Fiedls RSPB, 4 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit North Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay off stone bench

Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh over South Marsh

Little Tern - 2 off shore off Double Dyke

Black Tern - 1 off shore off Double Dyke

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere Channel seen from Arne RSPB

AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 Lytchett Heath (caught + ringed)

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 West Bexington, single at Arne RSPB, Stanpit Marsh, Talbot Heath & Swyre Head

Redstart - 2 Knowl Hill, 1 Lytchett Heath, 1 West Bexington

Whinchat - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 6 Wesy Bexington, 3 Swyre Head, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 8 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Wareham Common

Aquatic Warbler - Lytchett Heath © Nick Hull

Chiffchaff - Portesham © Janet Grove

Thursday 11th August 2022

Quail - 1 calling Gillingham

Balearic Shearwater - 155 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB 

Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon

White Stork - 2 Over Upton

Glossy Ibis - 1 N Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Christcchurch Hbr.

Common Sandpiper - 2 Mudeford Quay, 1 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Little Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sand Martin - 160E Portland Bill

Swallow - 100E Portland Bill

Willow Warbler - 15 Stanpit Marsh, 15 Portland Bill, 8 Greenlands Farm

Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Durlston CP.

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Greenlands Farm, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Sweethill Portland.

Redstart - 1 Greenlands Farm

Whinchat - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Portland Bill

Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 8 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey (CJ7) - Wareham Channel © Nick Hull

Wednesday 10th August 2022

Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge, 5 Middlebere, 10 Stanpit Creek

Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 4 Sherford Pool

Redshank - 47 Lytchett Fields

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank - 11 Middlebere, 14 Brownsea Lagoon, 12 Lytchett Fields

Mediterranean Gull - c.1000 Ferrybridge

Yellow-legged Gull - juvenile South Marsh Stanpit

Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea Lagoon

Honey Buzzard - 2 drifted over Piddle Valley

Red Kite - 2 north of  Didlington Farm

Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Arne

Redstart - fem Arne

Yellow Wagtail - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Greenlands Farm

Crossbill - 6 Swanage

Wheatear, Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 9th August 2022

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton

Black-tailed Godwit - 219 Holes Bay

Redshank - 97 Holes Bay, 42 Poole Harbour

Glossy Ibis - 1 flew towards Stanpit Marsh

 Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Osprey - 2 or 3 migrants seen around Poole Harbour

Honey Buzzard - 1 drifting western area of Poole Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - released juvenile through Lytchett Bay

Red Kite - 1 Blandford

Garden Warbler - 4 Winspit, 1 Priory Marsh

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Winspit

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Priory Marsh

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Tout Quarry Portland

Redstart - 1 Winspit

Wheatear - 1 Wild Woodbury

Tree Pipit - 5 Wild Woodbury

Yesterday:

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert's Castle

Black Redstart - 1 Poole Quay

Tree Pipit, Wild Woodbury © Trevor Warrick

Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher,Thorncombe Woods © Trevor Warrick

Monday 8th August 2022

Grey Partridge - at least 3 coveys at Milborne St Andrew 

Cuckoo - 1 Maiden castle

Stone Curlew - 1 east past Portland Bird Observatory

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland bill

Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill

Roseate Tern - 1 past Christchurch Harbour west

Glossy Ibis - 1 flew north Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 past along west cliffs Portland, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Osprey - 1 seen flying south over Monkey Jump roundabout Dorchester

White-tailed Eagle - 1 released immature through Poole Harbour

Wood Warbler - 1 at Ashtree Meadows

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Thornecombe Woods

Sunday 7th August 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Maiden Castle

 Knot - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 2 Studland

Curlew - 127 Studland

Greenshank - 3 Stanpit Bight

Black Tern - 1 East Marsh Christchurch

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Purple Heron - 1 Coward's Marsh

Garden Warbler - 2 Ringstead

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Ringstead'

Aquatic Warbler - 1 trapped, ringed Longham Lakes

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ringstead, 4 Wareham Forest

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Wareham Forest

Wheatear - 2 Ashmore, 1 Goldingstone Heath, 1 Studland, 4 Ringstead

Grey Heron, Iford Weir Christchurch  © Clinton Whale

Saturday 6th August 2022

Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 10 over Brownsea Island lagoon
White-tailed Eagle -  released birds seem over Littledown (Bournemouth), Piddle Valley, Wareham Channel and Morden Bog
Sedge Warbler - 300 Christchurch Harbour
Willow Warbler - 30 Christchurch Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit

Great Spotted Woodpecker, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

 

Friday 5th August 2022

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, reported throughout day but flushed this evening
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 10 Brownsea Island
Hobby - 1 over Buckhorn Weston
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Linnet, Stanpit © Dave Hill

Little Egret, Stanpit © Dave Hill

Robin, Stanpit © Dave Hill

Thursday 4th August 2022

Ringed Plover - 64 Ferrybridge, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay, 1 Peveril Point, 6 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 10 Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Over Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh

Yellow - legged Gull - 1 Branders Bank Christchurch Harbour

Balearic Shearwater - 6 Off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery Marsh Meadow Pool

Honey Buzzard - 1 Over Easton Portland

Willow Warbler - 50 Durlston CP, 30 Wytch Farm, 7 Wick Hegisbury

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Garden Warbler - 1 Langton Matravers, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Wytch Farm

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery Marsh Meadow Pool

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - Mudeford Quay

Honey Buzzard - Dorset undisclosed location ©Mike Coleman

Wednesday 3rd August 2022

Brent Goose - 4 Brands Bay

Avocet - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Ringed Plover - 52 Ferrybridge, 12 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Brands Bay

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Lagoon

Balearic Shearwater - 11 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery Marsh Meadow Pool

Osprey - 5  Poole Harbour incl 1 un-ringed migrant that visited the Poole Harbour nest

Red Kite - 1 West of Blandford Forum

Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor 

Wheatear - 1 Hartland Moor

Curlew - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Little Egrets - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Tuesday 2nd August 2022

Brent Goose - 4 Brands Bay

Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Ringed Plover - 74 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Brands Bay

Knot - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 4 Middlebere, 5 Brownsea Lagoon

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Middlebere

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Forest

Wheatear - 1 Hengisbury Head

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 44 past Portland Bill

Spotted Flycatcher - Middlebere

Monday 1st August 2022

Brent Goose - 3 Brands Bay

Whimbrel - 3 Brands Bay

Common sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Green Sandpiper - 15 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Black Redstart - 1 Behind Poole Arms Poole

Redstart - 1 Charmouth

Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge

Little Grebe - Hengisbury Head ©Clinton Whale