Monday 17th April 2023

Garganey - 1 drake Lodmoor RSPB
Common Scoter - 200 past Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 East Ferrybridge
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 River Stour Iford.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 over Wareham Forest, 3 over Lytchett Bay/Upton
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Arne RSPB and over Lytchett Bay/Upton
Osprey - 2 Poole Hbr, 2 Wyke Regis, 1 over Bournemouth
Avocet - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 20 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 78 Ferrybridge, 14 Lytchett Bay, 5 hengistbury Hd, 2 Charmouth
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Turtle Dove - 2 Avalanche Rd.
Cuckoo - 1 Swineham, 1 Parley Common
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill (top fields), 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Hoopoe - 1 Days Park Swanage, 1 Southweel/Avalanche Rd Portland
Sand Martin - 870 Swineham Pt.
Swallow - 205 Swineham Pt.
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Reap Lane Portland
Black Redstart - 1 fem. Southwell
Ring Ouzel - 8 Avalanche Rd, 3 Culverwell
Grasshopper Warbler - 30 Portland Bill, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Durlston CP, 2+ Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Common, 1 Tidmoor.
Sedge Warbler - 3 Swineham Pt.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Willow Warbler - 100 Hengistbury Hd, 20 Tidmoor.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP.

Hoopoe Days Park Swanage © Phyl England

Common Tern - Lodmoor © Will Bown

Whimbrel - Lodmoor © Clinton Whale


Little Tern - Ferrybridge © Caroline Hebditch



















Black-crowned Night Heron - Iford © Robert Fielding