Monday 31st July 2023

Common Sandpiper - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 7 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 10 Ferrybridge
FORSTER'S TERN  - 1 Arne RSPB at Shipstal Point
Manx Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury Head
Arctic Skua - 11 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 10 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wheatear - 2 Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Holloway's Dock (Christchurch Harbour)

Grey Heron, R.Avon Christchurch © Clinton Whale

Wood Duck, yesterday at Creekmoor Pond © Liz Bal

 


 

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Sunday 30th July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane GP
Turnstone - 8 Hengisbury Head, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 1 Long Island seen from Arne RSPB
Sanderling - 12 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside Farm Scrape 
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham, 1 Juvenile off Shipstal beach Arne RSPB 
Forster's Tern - 1 off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB
Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill flying west
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill flying west
Cattle Egret - 49 Marsh Meadow Pool Abbotsbury Swannery
White tailed Eagle - 2 seen from Hydes Heath 
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Shell Bay beach end of the boardwalk 
Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis

Turnstone - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale







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Saturday 29th July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane Gravel pit 
Whimbrel - 3 Holes Bay Poole, 3 off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Middlebere, 1 The Fleet
Common Sandpiper - 12 The Fleet
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Ridge Sunnyside Farm Scrape  
Forster's Tern - 1 off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB, also briefly in Middlebere Channel
Spoonbill - 8 Middlebere Channel, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 49 Marsh Meadow Pool Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 1 unringed bird Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Bay RSPB
White tailed Eagle - 2 Over Arne RSPB and Wareham Channel

Wood Sandpiper - Sunnyside Farm © James Leaver




Forster's Ter - Arne RSPB © Pete Moore




Barnacle Goose - Hole Lane GP © Garry Hayman



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Friday 28th July 2023

Brent Goose - 1 Brands Bay
Whimbrel - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Holes Bay, 1 Arne RSPB salt marsh off Shipstal Beach  
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar tailed Godwit - 3 Arne RSPB salt marsh off Shipstal Beach
Knot - 1 Arne RSPB salt marsh off Shipstal Beach
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Forster's Tern - 1 Arne RSPB salt marsh off Shipstal Beach
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White tailed Eagle - 1 over Brands Bar towards Greenlands Farm

Yesterday: Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill

Raven - Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman


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Thursday 27th July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane Gravel Pit
Garganey - 10  Cowards Marsh elusive amongst the pools 
Eider - 2 Pilots Point off Studland Beach
Bar tailed Godwit - 11 off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 2 Peveril Point Swanage, 1 Holme Land Gravel pit
Arctic Tern - 1 seen from the Raptor Trail Arne RSPB this morning
Forster's Tern - off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB late afternoon 
Hobby - 1 Litton Cheney
Garden Warbler - 1 Beach end of the boardwalk Shell Bay Studland 
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Beach end of the boardwalk Shell Bay Studland 

Forster's Tern - Arne RSPB ©  Garry Hayman



Curlew - Stanpit Marsh - ©  Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 26th July 2023

 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 9 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 6 Lodmoor, 4 Christchuch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Greenshank 1 Lodmoor, 1 Wych channel, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Forster's Tern - 1st summer still over Wych channel Arne RSPB
Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 Holes Bay
Sedge Warbler - c.15 Lytchett Fields
Wheatear - 1 Wytch Farm

Stonechat, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


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Tuesday 25th July 2023

Black Swan - 1 Longham Lakes
Common Scoter - pair Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor
Yellow-legged Gull - juvenile Stanpit
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island lagoon, 1 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female type Brownsea Island NT
Serin - 1 Avalanche Road Hump , Portland


Yesterday:
21 Cattle Egret over Tidmoor 

Black Swan, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter


Recently fledged Little Owl, Portland (July 19th) © Peter Coe


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Monday 24th July 2023

Cuckoo - 1 Kingston Maurward
 Little Ringed Plover - 4 Silverlake
Whimbrel - 7 Stanbit Bight
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Forster's Tern - 1st summer at Arne RSPB, south west of Round Island
Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 1 Stanpit
Dartford Warbler - 1 Silverlake
Spotted Flycatcher - 12 Thorncombe Woods


Adult and juvenile Sandwich Tern, Hengistbury Head  © Clinton Whale


Sanderling, Ferrybridge © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave


Dunlin, Ferrybridge © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave


Mediterranean Gull, Ferrybridge © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave


Little Egret, Stanpit © Dave Hill




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Sunday 23rd July 2023

Common Scoter - 2 Christchurch Harbour
 Whimbrel - 1 Holloway's Dock Hengistbury Head
Black-tailed Godwit - 150+ Poole Harbour, 75 Lytchett Bay
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 4 Poole Harbour
Greenshank - 3 Poole Harbour
Forster's Tern - 1st summer Shipstall Point before flying towards Middlebere
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Hobby - 1 Swineham
Whitethroat - 1 Peveril Point Swanage
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor Portland


Whimbrel, Ho;;oway's Dock Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


Goldfinch, Stour Provost © John Bishop


Juvenile Goldfinch feeding juvenile Goldfinch, © John Bishop


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Saturday 22nd July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane GP
Common Scoter - 2 Christchurch harbour
Avocet - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Holme Lane GP
Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 1 Holme Lane GP, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Kittiwake - 3 past Portland Bill
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 from Mudeford Quay, 1 Holme Lane GP
Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 6 east past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill
Gannet - 36 off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 distant from Middlebere

Little Ringed Plover, Silverlake © Annabel Sharpe

Bearded Tit, Radipole RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

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Friday 21st July 2023

Common Scoter - 2 Stanpit Blight
Water Rail - 4 Mouth of River Frome
Avocet - 11 Brownsea lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 4 North Brownsea Shoreline
Spotted Redshank - 4 Swineham Point
Sandwich Tern  - 1 Hatch Pond, 200 Brownsea & Poole Harbour
Common Tern - 150 Brownsea & Poole Harbour
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Holton Shoreline
Great White Egret - I Middlebere Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wytch Lake
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Sedge Warbler - c50 Hengistbury Head
Whinchat - 1 Abbotsbury
Wheatear - 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Hengistbury Head
Serin - 1 Portland Bird Observatory

Sedge Warbler, Stanpit Marsh  © Dave Hill


Stonechat, Stanpit Marsh © Dave Hill
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Thursday 20th July 2023

Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit marsh, 2 Cuttcleaves Cove
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Cuttcleaves Cove
Cattle Egret - 48 Abbotsbury Swannery
Sand Martin - 30 Tidmoor Point
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Cuttcleaves Cove
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog

Yesterday: -

Spotted Redshank - 4 Wareham Channel
Puffin - 1 past Portland Bill

Spotted Flycatcher, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman


Kestrel juvenile, Allen Valley © Paul Kirby


Greenfinch, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

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Wednesday 19th July 2023

Curlew - 28 Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay
Redshank - 189 Holes bay
Greenshank - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 5 Shell bay
Cattle Egret - 5 Stoborough Causeway
Hobby - 1 Sturminster Marshall
Woodlark - 1 Silverlake
Cirl Bunting - 1 Portland 

Yesterday: -

Little Egret - 75 from Pergins Island roost
Jackdaw - 500 from Pergins Island Roost

Little Owl, Portland © Garry Hayman

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Tuesday 18th Jul 2023.

Whimbrel - 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Fields, 5 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 6 Lytchett Fields.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor, 9 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit.
Yellow-legged Gull - 37 Portland Bill.
Little Tern - 3+ Hengistbury Head.
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island.
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Lodmoor.
Manx Shearwater - 19 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hobby - 1 eastern Piddle Valley.
Sand Martin - 750 Hengistbury Head, 100 Portland Bill.

Little Terns, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale















Linnet, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


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Monday 17th Jul 2023.

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields, 2 past Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Fields.
Sanderling - 1 Hengistbury sandspit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields, 16 Stanpit.
Yellow-legged Gull - 25+ Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua (dark) - 1 off Mudeford Quay, 3 past Portland Bill.
Little Tern - 4 Stanpit.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 11 past Portland Bill.

Little Tern and Black-headed Gulls, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Dunlin, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


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Sunday 16th Jul 2023.

Swift - 50+ Silverlake.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit, 2 The Fleet (Wyke Regis).
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Silverlake.
Little Tern - 4 Hengistbury Head.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor.
Hobby - 1 Corfe Mullen.

Swallow, The Fleet (Bridge Camp) © Steve Mansfield.

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Saturday 15th Jul 2023.

Swift - c.200 over the Frome and Piddle Valley.
Whimbrel - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Middlebere, 5 The Fleet (Camp Road).
Common Sandpiper - 6 Hengistbury Head, 2 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere, 2 Peveril Point, 
   5 The Fleet (Camp Road).
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 6 Middlebere.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1+ Mudeford Quay, 1 The Fleet (Camp Road).
Forster's Tern - 1 Lytchett Fields - presumably the spring bird returning.
Storm Petrel - 1 briefly off Hengistbury Head.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor.
Honey Buzzard - 1 east at speed, high over the eastern Piddle Valley.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere.
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Friday 14th July 2023

Common Scoter - 24 east from Wyke Bridging Camp, 17 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 22 Portland Bill, 1east Wyke Bridging Camp
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 8 in meadow at Stoborough
Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Poole Hbr (not one of the breeding pair)
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Holme GP.
Common Sandpiper - 7 Wyke Bridging Camp, 2 Holme Lane GP, 1 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Arctic Skua - 1 off Shore Mudeford Quay
Yellow-legged Gull - 29+ Portland Bill
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Mute Swan - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Sparrowhawk - West Moors © Roy S. Nicklin


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Thursday 13th July 2023

Egyptian Goose - 53 Silverlake
Eider - 2 off Brownsea south shore.
Common Scoter - 11 past Mudeford Quay
Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 7 Wareham meadows, 1 Silverlake
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 8 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 6 Silverlake
Common Sandpiper - 15 Peveril Pt, 8 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brownsea Is, 1 Silverlake,1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 6 Brownsea Lagoon
Yellow-legged Gull - 18 Portland Bill, 3 Swineham Pt.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - c400 Swineham meadows
Yellow Wagtail - 1 heard over Stanpit Marsh

Juvenile Black-headed Gull - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 12th July 2023

Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 8 Arne RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 1ad 1 Juv Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 9 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow-legged Gull - c15 Portland Bill, 1 West Bexington
Little Tern - 3 Christchurch Hbr.
Arctic Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Swift - 26 over Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - 135 over Stanpit, 30+ Swineham Point

Redshank - Swineham Point © Clive Hargrave



Peregrine Falcon - Durlston CP © Marcus Jones

Northern Fulmar - Durlston CP © Marcus Jones




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Tuesday 11th July 2023

Egyptian Goose - 50 Silverlake
Balearic Shearwater - 1 west Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 1 sum/plum Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Hobby - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 9 Silverlake
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 jus West Bexington


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Monday 10th July 2023

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Curlew - 76 Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Fisherman's Bank (Christchurch Harbour)
Greenshank - 2 Silverlake, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Sandwich Terns, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Corn Bunting, The Fleet © Steve Mansfield

 

 


 

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Sunday 9th July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Golden Pheasant - 1 Furzey Island, male seen from Redcliffe Point
Little Ringed Plover - 1 juvenile at Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 1 from Redhorn Quay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 5 past Littlesea (The Fleet)
Spoonbill - 1 Silverlake
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Kestrel, Stanpit © Clinton Whale


 

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Saturday 8th July 2023

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 12+ Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

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Friday 7th July 2023

Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Curlew - 71 Brand's Bay
Grey Plover - 6 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere, 2 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Probable Black-headed Wagtail - 1 Middlebere NT Cottages this evening

Shelduck family, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Thursday 6th July 2023

Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Greenshank - 1 Ferrybridge
Cattle Egret - 1 Arne RSPB Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 Portland Bill initially flew North but then went West towards Chesil
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB Frenches VP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 5th July 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel- 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Shell Bay Board walk,  1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 54 Pilots Point Shell Bay Studland
Common Tern - 80 Bramble Bush Bay Studland
Great white Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Middlebere Channel
White tailed Eagle - 1 seen from Ham Common over Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale



Mediterranean Gull - Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale



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Tuesday 4th July 2023

Swift - 140 Over Lytchett Fields RSPB flying towards Holton Lee
Common Sandpiper -  3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 summer plumage in Middlebere Channel
Greenshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB then flew into the Bay
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 flew North over Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 10 Past Portland Bill

Jackdaws - © John Crossman

 

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Monday 3rd July 2023

Black tailed Godwit - 3 Silverlake, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel seen from Ham Common
Tree Pipit - 1 over Ham Common

Yesterday: 3 Balearic Shearwater  flew East past Portland Bill

Common Gull - Shell Bay  © Bob Hammonds







Peregrine Falcon - Christchurch Priory  ©  Clinton Whale


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Sunday 2nd July 2023

Curlew - c.50 Poole Harbour
 Black-tailed Godwit - c.300 Wareham Channel Poole Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - c.15 Wareham Channel Poole Harbour, 11 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel Poole Harbour
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 4 Longburton
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Curlew, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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