Friday 31st March 2023

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Hengistbury sandspit
Kittiwake - 1 still at Longham Lakes
Little Gull - 3 Ferrybridge
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes
Arctic Tern - 1 Weymouth Bay this evening
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour: male 022, un-ringed female and now female CJ7seen together on BoPH nest platform, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Willow Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 still at Weymouth (Charlestown)
Siskin - 4 on garden feeder at Crossways
Brambling - 1 Longham Lakes on west side of South Lake, 1 on garden feeder at Crossways

Pale-bellied Brent Geese, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Osprey, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher


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Thursday 30th March 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 8 Ferrybridge, 4 Littlesea (The Fleet)
Cattle Egret - 1 Puddletown (Bardolf Farm)
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Swineham
Black Redstart - 1 still in Weymouth (Charlestown)

Wheatear, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Peregrine, Christchurch Prory © David Camp

 

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Wednesday 29th March 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 1 over Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 1 Swineham
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour (on BoPH webcam - 022 and un-ringed female mating & nest building)
Sand Martin - 70 Lodmoor RSPB, 50 Silverlake
Swallow - 2 Silverlake
Sedge Warbler - 1 Longham Lakes on causeway
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)

Wheatear, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

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Tuesday 28th March 2023

Garganey - 2 east past West Bexington and Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head
Golden Plover - c200 Eggardon Hill
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil Cove
Cattle Egret - 2 along R. Frome near Wareham, 2 by R. Avon from Christchurch bypass
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Swineham
Hoopoe - 1 Poole, in a private garden
Hobby - 1 over Swineham
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Moors Valley CP, by the lake. This is the earliest ever recorded in Dorset.
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)

Yesterday : A Short-eared Owl, 5 Firecrest and a Brambling at Portland Bill. Also on Portland, the hybid Hooded Crow at Fancy's Farm.

Hoopoe, Poole © Mary Cann

Stonechat, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale



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Monday 27th March 2023

Garganey - 1 drake still at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes on South Lake
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 35 Abbotsbury, 1 Shillingstone
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 4 Poole Harbour including 022 and un-ringed female
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Willow Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at Littlesea (The Fleet), 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Swineham, 1 Upton
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Priory Marsh (Christchurch Harbour)
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Brambling - 3 South Haven

Dartford Warbler © Clinton Whale


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Sunday 26th March 2023

Garganey - pair at Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape, 1 drake at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Mandarin Duck - 7 Holmebridge, 4 Sadborow (near Thorncombe)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Kittiwake - 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Shillingstone
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour (022 and un-ringed female), 1 over Longham Lakes
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Hambledon Hill, 2 Keysworth, 2 Trigon Hill
Willow Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Wick
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown), 1 Charlton Down
Water Pipit - 1 Hampreston Fields
Brambling - 1 Longham Lakes

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Grey Plover, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

 

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Saturday 25th March 2023.

Garganey - 1 Swineham.
Common Scoter - 25 Portland Bill.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill.
Common Gull - 6 past Hengistbury Head.
Kittiwake - 17 Silverlake is an unusual record.
Red-throated Diver - 8 Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 3 Wareham Channel (Rock Lea viewpoint).
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Lytchett Bay/Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 9 left Poole Harbour roosts this morning; 1+ Swineham.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wareham Common.
Merlin - 1 Swineham.
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor.
Swallow - 1 Swineham.
Sand Martin - 1 Hatch Pond, 4 Swineham.
White Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill.
Wheatear - 2 Hengistbury sandspit.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill.
Willow Warbler - 1 Merley.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland Bill.

Peregrine Falcon, Christchurch priory © Clinton Whale


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Friday 24th March 2023.

Purple Sandpiper - 22 Hengistbury sandspit.
Puffin - 1 Durlston CP.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 west over Corfe Castle.
Marsh Harrier - 2+ Radipole Lake.
Swallow - 2+ Longham Lakes.
Sand Martin - c40 Longham Lakes.
Wheatear - 2 Hengistbury (Barn Field).
Willow Warbler - 2 Hengistbury (Wick).
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Thorncombe woods.

Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury sandspit © Clinton Whale


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Thursday 23rd March 2023

Purple Sandpiper - 15 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 1 Holes Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Shillingstone, 1 over Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1 Swineham Point
Hobby - 1 over Ferndown Common NR
Willow Warbler - 1 Wick
Brambling - 1 Thorncombe Wood on feeders at café

Chiffchaff, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Reed Bunting, yesterday at Tuckton © Dave Hill

 

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Wednesday 22nd March 2023.

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes.
Eider - 1 Portland Harbour.
Grey Plover - 1 over Ferrybridge.
Mediterranean Gull - 200+ Longham Lakes.
Cattle Egret - c.20 east of Abbotsbury village.
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland (The Verne).
Goldcrest - 20+ Hengistbury Head.
Firecrest - 2 Portland (Pennsylvania/Church Ope Cove).

Gadwall, Christchurch Harbour © Clinton Whale

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Tuesday 21st March 2023

 Alpine Swift - 1 probable off the sea at Portland Bill
Golden Plover - c300 North of Bere Regis, c80 Monkey's Jump Dorchester
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengisbury Head groynes
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB, 2 North of A35 on the River Avon
White-tailed Eagle - 5 Poole Harbour 
Hooded Crow (or Hybrid) - 1 The Nothe Weymouth
Swallow - 1 Radipole RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
House Martin - 1 Sherborne, 1 Radiplo RSPB
Willow Warbler - 1 Trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Ob's
Black Redstart - 1 Kimmerage Bay, 1 Weston Portland

Purple Sandpiper - Hengisbury Head  ©Clinton Whale


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Monday 20th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 11 of Hengisbury Head
Alpine Swift - 1 over Bournemouth Gardens nr the Town Hall
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Osprey - 1 Over Wareham Causeway 
White Tailed Eagle - 1 Gad Cliff 
Sand Martin - 11 Radipole RSPB 
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Wheatear - 1 Peveril Point, 1 Kimmeridge
Water Pipit - Radipole RSPB North Screen

Common Snipe - Hengisbury Head - ©Clinton Whale



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Sunday 19th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes 
Garganey - 2 drakes on River Avon at Burton
Alpine Swift - 2 Over Riversmeet Stanpit Marsh / Christchurch Priory and Oxford point Bournemouth,  1 Churchfield Court Poole
Black- necked Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach Studland
ROSS'S GULL - 1 Briefly at Lodmoor RSPB this afternoon
Golden Plover - 8 Charlton Down allotments
Spoonbill - 6 Ower Quay, 4 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 20+ Portesham, 4 nr Woodsford, 2 Swineham  GP
Great White Egret - 1 Piddle Valley flood fields
Red Kite - 3 over Swanage flying North, 1 Steeple Down, Stanpit Marsh, 1 Winterbourne Stickland
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Morden, 1 Steeple Down, 1 Winterbourrne 
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Sand Martin - c60 Swineham GP
Swallow - 1 over Wareham Common, 1 over Rempstone Heath 

Garganey - River Avon Burton ©Garry Hayman






Great Crested Grebe - Hatch Pond ©Clinton Whale




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Saturday 18th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Mandarin Duck - 2 Swineham, 1 Longham Lakes
Grey Partridge -  7 St Aldhelms Head
Alpine Swift - 6 Christchurch / Stanpit , 1 Swanage, 1 Bournemouth
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Tidmoor Point, 1 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Purple Sandpiper - 17 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Spotted Redshank - 2 Rock Lea View Point Lytchett Bay RSPB
Caspian Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Yellow - legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 6 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Bittern - 1 poss 2 leaving Radipole RSPB at Dusk, 1 Booming at Swinham GP
Great White Egret - 1 Hampreston Fields
Osprey - 1 Over Portland 
Red Kite - 1 Wogret, 1 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise, 1 Herbury The Fleet
White Tailed Eagle - 2 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Willow Warbler  - 1 Langton Matravers  Lime kiln
Black Redstart - 1 Ladysmead Gardens Easton Portland
Dipper - 1 River Lim Lyme Regis
Water Pipit - 1 Longham Lakes & flew West
Snow Bunting - 1 heard calling St Aldhelms Pier Bottom


Alpine Swift - Christchurch ©Scott Usher






Alpine Swift - Christchurch   ©Scott Usher


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Friday 17th March 2023

Mandarin Duck - 2 Swineham, 1 Longham Lakes
Garganey - 5 Past Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Alpine Swift - 1 North side of Lodmoor RSPB over houses
Common Crane - 1 Swineham GP and then Middlebere flying East
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Middle beach Studland
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Approach Field Lytchetts Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 7 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White Tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB
Willow Warbler - 1 Langton Matravers Lime Kiln
Black Redstart - 1 Easton Portland, 1 Tilly Whim Durlston CP, 1 West Bay, 1 Charlestown
Wheatear - 5 Greenland Farm, 5 Ferrybridge, 5 Sunnyside Farm Ridge, 4 Lyme Regis Cobb, 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Scotland Farm Norden
White Wagtail - 2 Longham Lakes


Ringed Plover - Hegisbury Head © Clinton Whale





Garganey & Teal - Stanpit Marsh© Scott Usher




White Tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB © Clive Hargrave




Pied & White Wagtails - Longham Lakes  © Ron Poulter


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Thursday 16th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Newton's Cove
Mandarin - 1 drake Longham Lakes
Eider - 4 off Pilot's Point
Red-throated Diver - 1 East Durlston CP.
Black-necked Grebe - 1sum/plum age Longham Lake
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over west Christchurch Hbr. (07:35hrs)
Merlin - 1 Durlston CP.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 6 off Pilot's Point 
Sand Martin - 28 Portland Bill, 3 Radipole Lake RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 male Durlston CP (Tilly Whim), 1 Portland Bill, 1 fem Easton
Wheatear - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Down Farm

Wheatear - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


















Dunlin - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


























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Wednesday 15th March 2023

Mandarin - 1 drake Longham Lake
Cattle Egret - 2 in field behind Worgret Manor viewed from Bog Lane, 2 flew up the Piddle Valley.
Spoonbill - 5 Wytch Channel
Red Kite - 2 Wareham Common, 2 Wimborne St. Giles, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Knowlton Church, 1 Cranborne Chase, 1 Wyke Down (with yellow wing tags)
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Hartland Moor
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne RSPB, Hartland Moor, Wareham Channel
Goshawk - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Golden Plover - c200 Charlton Down
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay (from Rock Lea VP)
Iceland Gull - 1, 2CY west over Portland Bill
Sand Martin - 6 Longham Lakes, 3 Wareham Common, 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 over Hog Hill
Black Redstart - 1 male QuinetQ Compound Portland Bill, 1 fem/type Ladymead Close Portland
Wheatear - c50 Portland Bill, 10 West Lexington, 5 Ferrybridge, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Peveril Pt, 1 Longham Lakes.
Fieldfare - c80 Wyke Down
Brambling - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Bunting - Wareham © Clive Hargrave

Meadow Pipit - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Linnet - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale






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Tuesday 14th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 with Db Brent Stanpit Marsh
Mandarin - 3 Alners Gorse, 2 Sherford Bridge, 1 drake Longham Lakes
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 2 off Bronze Castle
Slavonian Grebe - 3 NW of Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Swineham (on the Curlews Scrape)
White-tailed Eagle - 2 soaring over Arne RSPB, 1 over Christchurch Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Wild Woodbury
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Swineham GP
Purple Sandpiper - 14 Hengistbury Hd (on Sandspit)
Green Sandpiper - 3 Bere Regis Cressbeds, 1 Maiden Newton
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay (from Rock Lea VP)
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Sand Martin - 2 Longhaam Lakes, 2 Silverlake, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
White Wagtail - 1Stanpit Marsh (on Crouch Hill), 1 Longham Lakes
Wheatear - 1 Portland Bill
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Monday 13th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 over Portland Hbr, 1 west off Hengistbury Hd.
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Portland Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Lytchett Bay, 1 soaring over Swyer Head.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Tarrant Kingston
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Hd (on the sandspit)
Whimbrel - 1 west past Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Sand Martin - 4 over Swineham GP.


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Shelduck _ Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Sunday 12th March 2023

Black-necked Grebe - 2 Portland Harbour, 1 Studland Bay
Glaucous Gull - 1st winter Silverlake
Spoonbill - 10 Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 24 Portesham
Red Kite - 2 over St Ives
Woodlark - 1 over Portland Bird Observatory
Sand Martin - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB
Firecrest - First male of spring at Portland Bird Observatory
Redwing - 30 Badbury Rings
Fieldfare - 80 Badbury Rings
Wheatear - 1 at the Fleet



Wheatear, The Fleet  © Freddy Alway


Mediterranean Gull, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Brent Geese, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Mediterranean Gull, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher


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Saturday 11th March 2023

 Mandarin Duck - 1 Pallington Lakes
Caspian Gull - 1 through Ferrybridge
Cattle Egret - 2 near Worget Farm Wareham
Sand Martin - 5 Swineham GPs
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Marina
Water Pipit - 1 Chesil Cove
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Friday 10th March 2023

 Whimbrel - 1 heard calling Brownsea Island NT
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Island NT
Little Egret - c.30 again on River Avon watermeadows, Christchurch
Hen Harrier - 1 adult male Arne Moors
Red Kite - 1 Organford, 1 Crossways
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Wild Woodbury
Short-eared Owl - 1 Littlemoor
Black Redstart - 1 Easton Portland, 1 Charlton Down
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Thursday 9th March 2023

 Black-tailed Godwit - 312 Lytchett Bay, Stanpit 110
Spotted Redshank - 3 Pools Field Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 1 in summer plumage Baiter Poole Harbour
Glossy Ibis -  1 flew from Peveril Point Swanage towards Durlston
Little Egret - 30 on River Avon Royalty fishery water meadows at Christchurch

Turnstone, Mudeford Quay  © Clinton Whale


Blackcap, Ferndown Garden © John Coates


Siskin, Ferndown Garden © John Coates 






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Wednesday 8th March 2023

Goldeneye - 1 Holme Lane GP
Great Crested Grebe - pair with 1 young on Hatch Pond
Sandwich Tern - 3 Poole Harbour (Whitley Lake)
Dipper - 2 Lyme Regis

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

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Tuesday 7th March 2023

Mandarin Duck - 1 male on North Lake, Longham Lakes
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Portland Harbour
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hegistbury Head
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 2 Worget
Water Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB (1 Approach Field and 1 Pool Field)
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Wood

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Monday 6th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery this afternoon
Mandarin Duck - 1 male Longham Lakes on South Lake
Goldeneye - 1 female Longham Lakes on South Lake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 The Fleet (Littlesea), 1 off Jerry's Point
Slavonian Grebe - 4 The Fleet (Littlesea)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Spoonbill - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 3 over Lytchett Bay this evening
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Brand's Bay, 1 Bestwall
Red Kite - 2 over Lytchett Bay, 1 over Dorchester
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB (Sherford Pool)

 
Song Thrush, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Black-tailed Godwits, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Sunday 5th March 2023

Goldeneye - 1 female at Longham Lakes
Grey Partridge - 6 Wyke Down
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Portland Harbour
Golden Plover - 152 at White Horse Hill near Osmington
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Spoonbill - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Norden
Red Kite - 2 over Wareham Channel
Black Redstart - 1 still at Easton (Portland)
Firecrest - 2 Durlston CP

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Saturday 4th March 2023.

Golden Plover - c200 over Charlton Down village.
Knot - 1 The Fleet (Cuttcleaves Cove).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Portland Bill.
Slavonian Grebe - 4 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour (Jerry's Point), 1 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Cattle Egret - 1 Hurn (R. Stour), 2 Wareham (west roundabout).
Osprey - 1 north over Wick.
White-tailed Eagle - 4 Poole Harbour/Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Sand Martin - 1 Lodmoor.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland (Easton), 1 West Bay.
Starling - murmuration, Wareham Forest (Birchwood Touring Park area).
Hooded Crow - a Hooded/Carrion hybrid at Portland Bill.

Cattle Egret, Wareham © Clive Hargrave

















Hen Harrier, Slepe Heath (2nd March) © Elaine Geall













Linnets, Merley © Roger Peart













Redwing, Stanpit © Scott Usher

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Friday 3rd March 2023.

Greylag - 2 Dorchester (Frome floodplain).
Eider - 4 Studland (Pilot's Point).
Pintail - 52 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Scoter - 30 Portland Bill.
Grey Partridge - 2 Wyke Down.
Grey Plover - 12 Stanpit.
Red-throated Diver - 4 past Portland Bill.
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Studland Bay (off Middle Beach).
Cattle Egret - 1 in the Frome Valley near Wareham.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Ballard Down, 3 Lytchett Matravers, 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wyke Down..
Red Kite - 1 Parley common, 1+ Piddle Valley, 1+ Slepe Heath, 1+ Studland, 1 north Upton, 4 Wyke Down.
Merlin - 1 Wyke Down.
Black Redstart - 1 Charlton Down.
Firecrest - 3+ Arne, 2 Norden sewage works, 1 Portland (Suckthumb Quarry).
Hooded Crow - an apparent Hooded/Carrion hybrid at Portland Bill.
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Thursday 2nd March 2023

Grrey Partridge - 2 Wyke Down
Whooper Swan - 1 Swineham GPs
Eider - 4 off Pilot's Point, Studland
Goldeneye - 1f  Littlesea, The Fleet
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Littlesea, The Fleet
Avocet - 12 Holes Bay
Grey Plover - 4 Littlesea, The Fleet
Spotted Redshank - 1 still SW Holes Bay
Spoonbill - 6 still Lodmoor RSPB
Hen Harrier - 1m over Doles Ash, Cheselbourne
Red Kite - 3 Wyke Down, 2 over N & W Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Clayton Meadow, Studland, 1 over Wyke Down
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP
Water Pipit - 4 Sherford Pools, Lytchett Fields

Rock Pipit, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Red-breasted Merganser, Poole Harbour © Peter Corbin

Nuthatch, Moreton © Helen Frost

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Wednesday 1st March 2023.

Grey Plover - 6 Stanpit, 4 The Fleet (Lynch Cove).
Knot - 1 The Fleet (Lynch Cove).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Poole Harbour (Rock Lea viewpoint).
Red-throated Diver - 1 west past Chickerell over the sea.
Slavonian Grebe - 4 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Black-necked Grebe - 1 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Cattle Egret - 1 Lower Bockhampton (Duck Farm), 2 Wareham (west roundabout).
White-tailed Eagle - 1 southern Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Stanpit.
Hen Harrier - 1 Winterborne Stickland.
Red Kite - 1 near Farnham, 1 Winterborne Stickland.
Merlin - 1 Milborne St Andrew.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland (Easton).

Pheasant, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Black-tailed Godwit, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

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