Thursday 29th June 2023

Egyptian Goose - 50 Silverlake
Swift - 100 over Hengistbury
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Bay 
Common Sandpiper - 6 Cuttcleaves Cove, 4 Stanpit
Redshank - 26 Stanpit, 8 Holes Bay
Red Kite - 1 Wareham Meadows

Sand Martins, Quarry Pond Hengistbury  © Clinton Whale


Wednesday 28th Jun 2023.

Cuckoo - 1 Stubhampton.
Whimbrel - 1 past Durlston CP, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 1 Stanpit.
Red Kite - 1 Hurn, 1 Tarrant Hinton.
Firecrest - 1 Hatch Pond.


Peregrine fledgling, Rushmore golf course © Stuart Jones

Tuesday 27th Jun 2023.

Egyptian Goose - 3 Longham Lakes.
Curlew - 2 Wick.
Red Kite - 1 Loscombe.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wick.

Buzzard (with rat), Edmondsham © Roger Peart













Egyptian Geese, Longham Lakes © Mike Foote

Monday 26th Jun 2023.

Dunlin - 2 Ferrybridge.
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge.
Roseate Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Night Heron - 1 on the Frome at Dorchester (St George's Rd area).
White-tailed Eagle - 4 Poole Harbour.
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Wick.

Swallows, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter.













Swallows, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter.













Sandwich Tern, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.


Sunday 25th Jun 2023.

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit.
Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Gadwall - 14 Christchurch Harbour.
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit.
Dunlin - 5 Ferrybridge.
Curlew - 6 Stanpit.
Night Heron - 1 on the Frome at Dorchester (St George's Rd area).
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit.

Curlew, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Saturday 24th June 2023

Red Kite - 10 Hinton Martell, 1 over Stanpit Marsh
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Morden, 1 Lytchett Bay
Curlew - 10 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Friday 23rd June 2023

Quail - 1 Wareham Common
Cuckoo - Swineham
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 1 Wareham, 1 Morden Bog
Hen Harrier - Swineham 
Hobby - Wareham Common
Golden Oriole - Tesco car park, Easton, Portland


Thursday 22nd June 2023

Eider - 2 Poole Hbr Mouth
Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Red Kite - 2 over Bridport, 2 Tarrant Rushton
Marsh Harrier - 1 ad/male over Alderholt
Osprey - 1 SE over Tolpuddle

Ringed Plover - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 21st June 2023

Red Kite - 1 over Charborough Park
White-tailed Eagle - 4 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 2 Poole Hbr 
Common Tern - 40 through Christchurch Hbr.
Roseate Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB flew out to Wey Bay.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Wytch Heath

Juvenile Stonechat Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


Tuesday 20th June 2023

Great White Egret - Lodmoor
Chough - Portland flew over Southwell (heard only)
Serin - male Portland at Easton by St.Georges Church in allotments

Monday 19th June 2023

Quail - 3 singing still at east end of Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Red Kite - Muscliffe, Bournemouth
 
Yesterday (18th):
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - still Christchurch Harbour
 
Lapwing, Stanpit © Clinton Whale




 















Great Spotted Woodpcker (juv), West Moors © Roy Nicklin


Sunday 18th June 2023

Spoonbill - 1 over Hyde's Heath towards Middlebere

Yesterday (17th):
Arctic Tern - 1 Lodmoor

Saturday 17th June 2023

Quail - 1+ still singing Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Osprey - 1 (unringed) Wareham Channel
 
Yesterday (16th):
Wood Sandpiper - Chard Junction GP
 
**Brownsea DWT is closed until further notice due to suspected avian flu.

Starling flock, Stanpit © Clinton Whale



Friday 16th June 2023

Quail - at least 3 singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Arne RSPB (Coombe Heath)
Turtle Dove - 1 Barleycrates Lane (Portland)
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Wareham Channel
Hobby - 1 Piddle Valley, 1 Arne RSPB (Hydes Heath)

Thursday 15th June 2023

Eider - 2 Poole Bay
Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Avocet - 1 at Silverlake is first for site
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 1 Longham Lakes
Firecrest - 3 Upton CP

Yesterday : 3 Quail singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield in the evening.

Common Tern, Lodmoor RSPB © Malcolm Dowty


Wednesday 14th June 2023

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 over Cheselbourne
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Piddle Estuary, Swineham

Yesterday: - 

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Blackberry Point, Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Wick

Mallard family, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Whitethroat, Ham Common © Daniel Nash


White-tailed Eagle & Marsh Harrier, Swineham © David Camp

 

Tuesday 13th June 2023

Black Swan - 3 Ferrybridge
Cuckoo - 1 Winterbourne Monkton
Sanderling - 10 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 Holton Heath
Redwing - 2 sth over Ferrybridge

Sand Martin fledglings, Lodmoor RSPB ©Kerrie Hillebrandt


Roseate Tern, Abbotsbury Swannery © Steve Groves


Oystercatcher, Poole Harbour © Martin Shaw

Monday 12th June 2023

PB Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Probable, Whitepits, Hengistbury Head
Green Sandpiper - 1 Sherford Pools, Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Charborough Park
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Wild Woodbury


Greenfinch, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Viv Keene


Yellowhammer, Winfrith & Tadnoll NR, DWT © Phil Cheeseman

 

Sunday 11th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still in Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 15 Hengistbury Head, 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : At least 7 Puffins at Dancing Ledge and a Quail at Tarrant Keyneston.

Peregrine, Christchurch © Clinton Whale

 

Saturday 10th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still in Christchurch Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 Coombe Heath (Arne RSPB)
Whimbrel - 2 Portland Bill, 1 over Mudeford Quay
Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Ferrybridge
Black Tern - 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Wimborne Minster

Red-necked Phalarope, Ferrybridge © Steve Carey

Red-necked Phalarope, Ferrybridge © Steve Carey


 



Friday 9th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still at Stanpit Marsh
Ringed Plover - 1 at Christchurch Harbour on nest is the first breeding attempt for site since 1983
Red Kite - 1 over Litton Cheney, 1 over Lytchett Bay, 1 Puddletown, 1 Briantspuddle

Yesterday: a  Red-backed Shrike was at Durlston CP in the evening - not reported today.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Thursday 8th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Quail - 1 singing near Tarrant Rushton
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 female on Hengistbury Head
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 7 Ferrybridge, 5 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Carey
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Heath
Osprey - 1 Morden Bog (male 374 from 2021 Poole Harbour release)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Toller Porcorum
 
Little Egret, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

 

Wednesday 7th June 2023

Eider - 2 near Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 2 Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 3 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 45 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 2 over Bardolf Farm, 1 near Fontwell Magna
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Tolpuddle
Tree Pipit - 4 Morden Bog
Serin - 1 briefly in a Southwell garden (Portland)
 
Turnstone, Ferrybridge © Pete Coe


Tuesday 6th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge
Sanderling - 23 Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Minster
Nightingale - 1 near Stour Row (west of Shaftesbury)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 in a garden at Hinton St Mary
Serin - 1 in PBO garden for third day but mobile

Starlings, Woodville © John Bishop

 

Monday 5th June 2023

Cuckoo - 2Stanpit Marsh, 1 Wick
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Ferrybridge
Ringed Plover - 20 Ferrybridge
Turnstone - 4 Ferrybridgre
Sanderling - 24 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham area
Tawny Owl - 2 Poole Area
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog, 2 Tolpuddle Manor
Firecrest - 1 Morden Bog
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog
Crossbill - 2 Morden Bog

 

Rook, Lulworth Cove © Peter Moore


Little Terns, Ferrybridge © Graham Jaggard


Little Egret, Arne RSPB © Trevor Parsons

Sunday 4th June 2023

Cuckoo - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Morden Bog, 1 South of Longham Lakes
Grey Plover - 14 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham area
Tawny Owl - 2 Poole Area
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Culverwell, 1 Tolpuddle Manor
Crossbill - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: - 

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Hoopoe - 1 between Sydling St.Nicholas & Cerne Abbas

Peregrine, Bournemouth Town Centre © David Wareham


Saturday 3rd June 2023


Grey Partridge - 5 St. Aldhem's Head
Swift - 50+ over Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 over South Lake, Longham Lakes, 1 over Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Red Kite - 8 Sth of Shillingstone, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wimborne Town Centre
Nightingale sp - 1 East of Avalanche Rd, Scrub Sth of Hump

Yesterday: -

Nightjar - 3 Dunyeats Heath
Gull Flock - c2350 off Hooks Sands

 

Common Terns, Brownsea Lagoon © Pete Davies



Friday 2nd June 2023

Mandarin family, Stour Meadows, Blandford © Sharon Towning

Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Mandarin - 1f & 4 young, Stour Meadows, Blandford
Cuckoo - 1f Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 again French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 again Bridport, 1 Lytchett Bay
Golden Oriole - 1 nth over Abbotsbury
Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grey-headed Wagtail - 1 again Horse Paddock, Reap Lane



 

Thursday 1st June 2023

Mandarin - 2 River Stour, Blandford
Little Gull - 1 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
ManxShearwater - 1 offshore,  from Bridging CAmp
Night Heron - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moors
Red Kite - 1 Broadmayne, 1 Bridport
Hoopoe - 1 Dancing Ledge
Golden Oriole - 1 Nth over Top Fields, Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Bridging Camp, THe Fleet
Grey-headed Wagtail - 1 Horse Paddock, Reap Lane
Corn Bunting - 1 Bridging Camp, The Fleet

 

Grey-headed Wagtail, Reap Lane, Portland © Phil Cheeseman