Thursday 30th November 2023

Shoveler - 15 past Hengistbury Head, 4 Stanpit
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Jerry's Point
Goosander - 2 redhead Radipole
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Jerry's Point
Dunlin - 227 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 8 past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 4 from Jerry's Point, 1 Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 2 from roost Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head visitors centre

Yesterday: 10 Red Kite from Shaftesbury Road north of Blandford
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Wednesday 29th November 2023

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Brands Bay.
Common Scoter - 6 Swanage Bay.
American Golden Plover - 1 juvenile Lodmoor.
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay, 8 Brownsea Island, 8 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Brands Bay.
Black-tailed Godwit - c1600 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Poole Harbour - Ballard Down - Swanage Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Silverlake, 3 Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1-2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Swineham.
Red Kite - 4 over C13 north of Blandford.
Merlin - 1 Silverlake.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill.
Little Gull - 1 Brands Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Hengistbury Head, 11 Poole Harbour, 2 Middle Beach (Studland Bay), 2 Swanage Bay.
Black-throated Diver - 1 near Brownsea Island, 1 from Rock Lea viewpoint (Poole Hbr).
Red-throated Diver - 1 Brands Bay, 6 past Hengistbury Head.
Black-necked Grebe - 6 Middle Beach (Studland Bay).
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit.
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere, 1 Swineham.
Spoonbill - 25 Fitzworth Point (Poole Hbr.).
Tree Pipit - 1 again Glebelands (Ballard Down).
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Brambling - 2 Glebelands (Ballard Down).


Song Thrush, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.















Sparrowhawk, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.















Lesser Redpoll, Duncliffe Wood © John Bishop.



















Siskin, Duncliffe Wood © John Bishop.

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Tuesday 28th November 2023

Brent Goose - 61 Christchurch Harbour.
Egyptian Goose - 5 Kimmeridge Bay.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Brands Bay.
Common Scoter - 1 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay.
American Golden Plover - 1 juvenile Lodmoor.
Grey Plover - 2 Christchurch Harbour. 4 Brands Bay, 73 Brownsea Island.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Black-tailed Godwit - 1500-2000 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Short-eared Owl - 6+ Wyke Down.
Great Northern Diver - 5 Brands Bay, 3 N of Brownsea Island, 1 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Bay, 3 Middle Beach (Studland Bay).
Red-throated Diver - 1 Brands Bay, 4 Hengistbury Head.
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Middle Beach (Studland Bay).
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay.
Great White Egret - 1 Hampreston fields.
Tree Pipit - 1 Glebelands (Ballard Down).
Firecrest - 1 Wick.
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Monday 27th November 2023

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Brands Bay.
American Golden Plover - 1 juvenile Lodmoor.
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay, 73 Brownsea Island.
Knot - 15 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1m Lytchett Bay.
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Wyke Regis private garden.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Brands Bay.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Studland Bay.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay.
Swallow - 1 Upton CP.
Firecrest - 1 Upton near the railway.
Black Redstart - 1 Beaminster.

Late news (yesterday): Sooty Shearwater, Portland Bill.


Black-necked Grebe and Gadwall,
Longham Lakes © Robert Fielding.















Stonechat, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Sunday 26th November 2023

Egyptian Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Velvet Scoter - 5 west from Hengistbury beach huts.
American Golden Plover - 1 juvenile Lodmoor.
Avocet - 79 Holes Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1m Lytchett Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 2 from Hengistbury beach huts, 4 Studland Bay.
Black-throated Diver - 1 from Hengistbury beach huts.
Red-throated Diver - 13 from Hengistbury beach huts.
Black-necked Grebe - 3+ Studland Bay.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay.
Cattle Egret - 12 Hengistbury Head roost, 9 past Rock Lea View (Poole Harbour).
Spoonbill - 3 Lytchett Bay.
Swallow - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Firecrest - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Longham Lakes.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Brambling - 3 Hillcombe Coppice (Shillingstone) with Chaffinches.

Late news (yesterday): Long-tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery;  Short-eared Owl - 1 Lane End (Wild Woodbury).

Brent Goose, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Saturday 25th November 2023

Grey Partridge - 51 St. Aldhem's head
Long-tailed Duck - 1f from Spit at Brands Bay, 1 Tidmoor Point
Goosander - 4 in off sea Weymouth Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 still Tidmoor Point, 1 off Middle beach, Studland
Black-necked Grebe - 9 off Middle Beach, Studland, 1 still North Lake, Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 500+ Lodmoor RSPB, 260 Winterborne Stickland
American Golden Plover - 1 juv Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Portland Bill
Jack Snipe - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Bere Regis Cress Beds
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Black-throated Diver - 2 off Brands Bay
Great Northern Diver - 5 off Brands Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hen Harrier - 1m again Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1m west up Piddle Valley, Wareham
White-tailed Eagle - 2 East from Piddle Valley, Wareham
Merlin - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Brambling - 1 St. Aldhem's Head




Rock Pipit, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale

 

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Friday 24th November 2023

Black Brant - 1 with DB Brent Geese, Ferrybridge
Scaup - 2 still Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 1 Lytchett Bay
Long-tailed Duck -1 still Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 redhead, South Lake, Longham Lakes
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still North Lake, Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 450 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 1 adult west off Hengistbury head
Red-throated Diver - 4 west off Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 11 from Christchurch harbour
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Hen Harrier - 1m & 1 ringtail, Lytchett Fields, 1 Top Fields, Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Top Fields, Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Top Fields, Portland Bill
Hawfinch - 1 Bonsley Common, nr. Shillingstone

Wigeon, Longham Lakes © Robert Fielding


Oystercatcher, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

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Thursday 23rd November 2023

Mandarin - 60+ Thorncombe
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still North Lake. Longham Lakes
Woodcock - 1 Top Fields, Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 2 off Mudeford Sandspit
Black-throated Diver - 1 off Mudeford Spit
Great Northern Diver - 1 Holes Bay, 1 still Lytchett Bay
Spoonbill - 14 still Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Hen Harrier - 1m still Top Fields & Culverwell, Portland, 1m Lytchett Fields, 1 ringtail Wyke Down
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Wyke Down
Garden Warbler - 1 very late, private garden at Lower Bockhampton
Firecrest - 1 near Water Treatment Plant, Lytchett bay
Fieldfare - 200+ Wyke Down

Yesterday: -

Red Kite - 4 over Compton Abbas Airfield
Fieldfare - 220 over West Bay

Redshank, Hengistbury Head © Dave Hill


White-tailed Eagle, Brands Bay © Christine Johnson

 

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Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Common Scoter - 6 in Studland Bay, 1 off Littlesea, The Fleet, 1 still in Lytchett Bay
Goosander - 4 Longham Lakes, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Radipole VC
Slavonian Grebe - 2 possibly 3 Littlesea, The Fleet
Black-necked Grebe - 6 off Middle Beach, Studland, 1 still North Lake, Longham lakes
Knot - 4 Littlesea, The Fleet, 2 South Haven, Studland
Little Gull -1 adult off Mudeford
Sandwich Tern - 2 South Haven, Studland, 1 off Middle Beach, Studland
Black-throated Diver - 1 still River Frome, nr. Wareham
Great Northern Diver - 3 off Jerry's Point, 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Littlesea, The Fleet, 1 off South Haven
Cattle Egret - 16 out of roost Christchurch Harbour area, 2 NW Pasture, nr. Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 5 Longham Lakes, 1 Butterstreet Cove, The Fleet
Hen Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Crown Estate Fields, Portland Bill to Culverwell & back, 1 in fields nr. Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 from Rockley Viewpoint, landed Arne Shoreline
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still at Wild Woodbury, from road to Lane End
Firecrest - 1 nr Wooden Bridge, Stanpit Marsh
Goldcrest - 11 South Haven Pool / Heather Walk
Black Redstart - 1 still Peveril Point, 1 Little Ship pub garden, Chiswell, Portland
Water Pipit - 3 trapped & ringed Lytchett Fields RSPB
Lesser Redpoll - 3 South Haven Pool / Heather Walk
Cirl Bunting - 1 flew West from West Bay, Bridport

Yesterday: -

Short-eared Owl - 3 at Dusk, Portland Bill


Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman


Kingfisher, River Stour, Blandford © Sharon Towning

 

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Tuesday 21st November 2023

Eider - 3 off Brownsea Is.
Goosander - 2 redheads Pirates Cove, 1 redhead Longham Lakes
Red-throated Diver - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Black-throated Diver - 1 in the Frome at Swineham Pt.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 3 Central Poole Hbr, 2 off Castle Pier Brownsea Is, 1 Brand's Bay, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 off Arne RSPB
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Round Is. 
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 off Jerry's Point
Cattle Egret - 18 Christchurch Hbr left roost a.m.
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Swineham Point
Spoonbill - 16 off Fitzworth
Hen Harrier - 1 Arne RSPB
Small Ringtail Harrier - 1 west along the Ballard Ridge (suggested Pallid)
Goshawk - 1 over Rempstone
Purple Sandpiper - 23 Highcliffe groin H10
Yellow-legged Gull - 1cy Mudeford Quay
Swallow - 2 Glebelands Ballard, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Fieldfare - c52 Hardy's Monument
Redwing - 20+ Thorncombe Wood
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wild Woodbury
Brambling - 2 Glebelands Ballard, 1 Thorncombe Wood
Lesser Redpoll - 15 Thorncombe Wood
Snow Bunting - 1 Glebelands Ballard

Purple Sandpiper - Highcliffe © Clinton Whale






















Goosander - Pirates Cove © Freddy Alway







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Monday 20th November 2023

Scaup -  2  Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 60 off Hengistbury Hd.
Goldeneye - 1 fem/imm Longham Lakes
Goosander - 1 redhead Longham Lakaes
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 4 Middle Beach, 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 15 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 5 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 2 Holes Bay
Red Kite - 1 Charlton Down
Merlin - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Hd,
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Short-eared Owl - 2 Wild Woodbury DWT
Crossbill - 2 over Oak Hill
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Sunday 19th November 2023

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Butterstreet Cove
Common Scoter - 30 Hengistbury Hd.
Goosander - 1 redhead Longham Lakes
Black-throated Diver - 1 Poole Hbr.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Portland Hbr.  1 Lytchett Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes
Storm Petrel - 1 Chesil Cove
Great White Egret - 6 Longham Lakes, 1 by the Stour Corfe Mullen
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wareham Channel
Merlin - 1 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Grey Phalarope - 1 Chesil Cove
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Silverlake
Little Auk - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Short-eared Owl - 5 Wyke Down

Shoveler - Lodmoor © Clinton Whale












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Saturday 18th November 2023

Common Scoter - 70 Hengistbury Hd.
Goosander - 1 Ferrybridge
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Hengisbury Hd, 1 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 off Portland Castle
Great Northern Diver - 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Tidmoor, 2 off Jerry's Point, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Stanpit Marsh, 1 Portland Bill
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Tidmoor
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Middle Beach Studland, 1 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 3 near Shaftbury
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Hbr,  1 near Shaftsbury, 
Hen Harrier - 1 Stoborough Heath NNR
Merlin - 1 Maiden Castle
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Hd on the sad spit.
Grey Phalarope - 1 flew south Ferrybridge
Pomarine Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Kittiwake - 556 west Durlston CP, 68 past Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 2 past Durlston CP (1ad+1 1st/W)
Swallow - 2 Middlebere
Fieldfare - 61+ Maiden Castle,  41 Middlebere
Black Redstart - 3 Portland Bill

Merlin - Maiden Castle © Alan Membury


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Friday 17th November 2023

Greater Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery (please note the swannery is now closed & only view from public rights of way).
Common Scoter  - 23 off Hengistbury Head, 5 Studland Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Tidmoor Point The fleet
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Male Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Pigeon - 28,040 over West Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Tidmoor Point The Fleet
Black-Necked Grebe- 8 Studland Bay, 1 Longham Lakes (North Lake), 1 Brands Bay
Golden Plover - 50 Lodmoor RSPB
Black-tailed Godwit - 1077 Holes Bay, 985 East Holme, 275 Brands Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head Sandspit Groynes, 4 Lyme Regis Cobb
Jack Snipe - 1 Slepe Heath
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Red Throated Diver - 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Hengistbury Head
Black Throated Diver - 1 off Portland Castle
Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 2 Tidmoor point The Fleet, 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay
Gannet - 1 over Hartland Moor
Spoonbill - 24 Shipstal point Arne RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 5 Longham Lakes
White Tailed Eagle - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT in the morning, 1 Wareham Channel in the afternoon
Short Eared Owl - 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Lanes End Road Wareham Forest, 1 Portland NE of The Lobster Pot
Jackdaw - 1000+ into roost at Holes Bay
Bearded Tit -2 Holes Bay
Swallow - 1 Lytchett Bay Rock Lea VP
Firecrest -  2 Longham Lakes, 1 Tidmoor Point The Fleet
Lesser Redpoll - 12 Thorncombe Woods, 10 West Bay


Purple Sandpiper - Lyme Bay Cobb © Roger Boswell





Lapwing - Lodmoor RSPB  © Clinton Whale






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Thursday 16th November 2023

Greater Scaup - Abbotsbury Swannery please note the swannery is now closed & only view from public rights of way.
Long-Tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery 
Great Northern Diver - 1 Lytchett Bay South Haven view point
Spoonbill - 1 from Ham Common LNR
Cattle Egret - 80 Abbotsbury Swannery 
Great White Egret - 3 Swineham GP
Short-Eared Owl  - 5 Wkye Down, 1 Stoborough Heath
Swallow - 1 Weymouth Promenade
Fieldfare - c50 Herston

Turnstone - Poole Harbour © Garry Hayman


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Wednesday 15th November 2023

Pintail - 99 Brands Bay
Eider - 3 from Birds of Poole Harbour Winter Safari Cruise
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Studland Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 60+ Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 6 Brand Bay
Ruff - 2 Holmebridge
Grey Phalarope - 1 Chesil Cove off Quiddles
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay
Great Northern Diver - 3 BoPH Winter Safari Cruise, 2 Portland Harbour, 1 Studland Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay
Spoonbill - 24 BoPH Winter Safari Cruise
Great White Egret - 2 Wareham Channel
Hen Harrier - 1 Grey Male Arne Moor (No access veiw from Slepe Heath), 1 Ringtail Arne moor BoPH Winter Safari Cruise 
White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel BoPH Winter Safari Cruise
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest 1/2 mile ENE of Woolsbarrow Fort
Black Redstart - 1 Bridport
Lesser Redpoll - 7 Wareham Forest
Crossbill - 5 Thorncombe wood

Golden Plover - Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale




Grey Wagtail - Swineham © Fiona Keeling




Snipe - Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale



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Tuesday 14th November 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Ferrybridge
Black-necked Grebe - 4 Brands Bay, 1 from Billy Winters Portland Harbour, 1 off beach huts Hengisburty Head
Common Scoter - 21 Hengisbury Head, 1 Lytchett Bay
Kittiwake - 1 Poole Quay
Black - throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 2 Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Wyke Down
Short-eared Owl - 2 Arne Moor (no access) View from Slepe Heath, 1  Wyke Down
Black Redstart - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Wyke Regis Bridging Camp

Great Crested Grebe - Hatch Pond © Clinton Whale



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Monday 13th November 2023

FERRUGINOUS DUCK - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 1 female at Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (North Lake)
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head
Sanderling - 2 Hengistbury Head
Little Gull - 11+ Chesil Cove, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Kimmeridge Bay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Durlston CP
Leach's Storm Petrel - 1 Chesil Cove
Short-eared Owl - 1 Studland in dunes
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still at Morden Bog near Decoy Pond
Pallas's Warbler - 1 in Southwell garden, 1 still at the Hump on Avalanche Road (Portland)
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Swanage on Salisbury Road
 
Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury © Clinton Whale

Sanderling, Hengistbury © Clinton Whale

Pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

 

 

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Sunday 12th November 2023

Goldeneye - 1 north through Christchurch Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 2 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Little Gull - 1 Kimmeridge Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 past Peveril Point
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury
Great Northern Diver - 1 Tidmoor Point, 1 Hengistbury
Red-throated Diver - 2 Hengistbury
Spoonbill - 5 Holes Bay
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere
Short-eared Owl - 4 Wyke Down, 1 north end of Radipole Lake RSPB
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still at Morden Bog north of Decoy Pond
Pallas's Warbler - 1 in PBO garden, 1 at the Hump (Avalanche Road, Portland)
Black Redstart - 1 Peveril Point
Snow Bunting - 1 Golden Cap
Cirl Bunting - 1 Tidmoor Point

Great Grey Shrike, Morden Bog © Garry Hayman


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Saturday 11th November 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Barnacle Goose - 2 Christchurch Harbour (left early), 1 Bog Lane Greenspace
Egyptian Goose - 5 Bog Lane Greenspace, 2 Longham Lakes
Scaup - 1 juvenile at Abbotsburry Swannery (note Swannery is closed, view only from public rights of way).
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 still at Ferrybridge
Slavonian Grebe - 2 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (North Lake)
Golden Plover - 250 Winterborne Clenston, 1 Tidmoor Pint, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Knot - 1 Brand's Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Head
Greenshank - 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Stanpit
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 again at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 4 Brand's Bay
Spoonbill - 25 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Swineham, 1 Longham Lakes
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog near Decoy Pond
Short-eared Owl - 1 Swineham, 1 Christchuch Harbour at dusk
Black Redstart - 2 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchatt Fields RSPB
Firecrest - 2 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Tidmoor Point, 2 Christchurch Harbour (Solent Meads & Hengistbury Lily Pond), 1 Winspit
Crossbill - 3 over West Bay
Brambling - 7 over West Bay, 2 over St Alhelm's Head
Hawfinch - 1 over Durlston CP
Snow Bunting - 1 still at Studland in dunes
 
Fieldfare, Turnworth Down nr Shillingstone © John Bishop

Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head © Mike Kirby

Yellowhammer, Turnworth Down nr Shillingstone © John Bishop

 

 

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Friday 10th November 2023

Egyptian Goose - 54 Woodsford Quarry
 Ferruginous Duck - drake still Lodmoor
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - juvenile still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Avocet - 43 Holes Bay
Golden Plover - c.300 in field between Eggardon Hill and Wynford Eagle
Grey Plover - 18 Brands Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 1035 Holes Bay, 65 Brands Bay
Knot - 19 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay
Caspian Gull - 1st winter flew west Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 2 Brands Bay
White Stork - possible flock flew high west over Litton Cheney
Spoonbill - 10 Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 25 Abbotsbury Swannery
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Stourpaine
Swallow - 2 Dorchester Water Meadows
Black Redstart - 3 near Ocean Bay Swanage, 1 West Bay
Snow Bunting - 1 still Studland beach

Juvenile Shag, Swanage © M Jones



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Thursday 9th November 2023

 Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Ferrybridge
Ferruginous Duck - drake still at Lodmoor west scrape
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Golden Plover - c.20 Lodmoor
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Fleet, juvenile Abbotsbury Swannery
Purple Sandpiper - 6 Christchurch Harbour
Grey Phalarope - 1 flew east past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 past Portland Bill, 
Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill
Leach's Storm Petrel - at least 3 past Portland Bill
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Merlin - 1 Silverlake
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Stourpaine
Ring Ouzel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove
Water Pipit - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Twite - 1 flew south west at Canford cliffs
Snow Bunting - 1 still on Studland Beach

Snow Bunting, Studland Beach  © Aidan Brown


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Wednesday 8th November 2023

Ferruginous Duck - drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 1 Lytchett Bay
 Long-tailed Duck - 1 Ferrybridge , 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Slavonian Grebe - 1 on Fleet at Tidmoor Point
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Brands Bay
Grey Plover - 6 Arne
Knot - 4 Arne
Little Gull - 2 past Durlston CP
Sandwich Tern - 2 Arne
Red-throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 4 Jerry's Point, 4 Poole Harbour
Storm Petrel - 4 past Durlston CP
Leach's Storm Petrel - 4 off Portland Bill 2 past Durlston CP, 1 past West Bay
Sooty Shearwater - 2 past Durlston CP
Cattle Egret - 30 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Swineham GPs
Hen Harrier - 1 over Keysworth
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Keysworth
Short-eared Owl -1 Durlston CP
Snow Bunting - 1 Studland beach
Black Redstart - 2 Chesil Cove

Ferruginous Duck, Abbotsbury Swannery  © Steve Groves


Long-tailed Duck, Abbotsbury Swannery © Steve Groves


Leach's Storm Petrel ; one of the many in Chesil Cove on November 4th
© Peter Coe


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Tuesday 7th November 2023

 Ferruginous Duck - drake again at Lodmoor
Scaup - juvenile Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - female at Ferrybridge, juvenile Abbotrsbury Swannery
Wood Pigeon - 2840 counted from Allington Hill, 8400 West Bay, 13,870 Poole Harbour, 
4500 Christchurch Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 1 North Lake Longham Lakes
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere
Forster's Tern - reported recently again at Shipstal Point
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Christchurch Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 through Christchurch Harbour
Hen Harrier - male at Middlebere, ringtail West Bay
Hoopoe - 1 flew over 'No dog field' Christchurch Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Mapperton, Beaminster
Redwing - 34 from Allington Hill, 70 West Bay, 43 from Constitution Hill Poole Harbour
Black Redstart - 1 Tilly Whim Durlston CP
Water Pipit - 1 trapped and ringed at Lytchet Fields RSPB, 3 Lytchett Bay
Brambling - 3 from Allington Hill, 4 West Bay, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Hawfinch - 1 flew west West Bay
Twite - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Crossbill - 4 West Bay

Ferruginous Duck, Lodmoor  © Oli Mockridge


Corn Bunting, Maiden Castle © Alan Membury


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Monday 6th Novenber 2023

Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 2 Brands Bay.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Grey Phalarope - 1 Kimmeridge Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 Swineham.
Merlin - 1 south of Knowlton, 1 Middlebere.
Great Northern Diver - 2-5 Poole Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 2 Poole Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Poole Harbour.
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Poole Harbour.
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 15 Hengistbury Head roost.
Spoonbill - 3 Lytchett Fields.
Wood Pigeon - 2000 Durlston CP, 32500 Hengistbury Head, 16095 Poole, 20750 West Bay.
Swallow - 2 Durlston CP.
Wheatear - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Firecrest - 3 Durlston NNR.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wick Hams.
Chaffinch - 940 West Bay.
Brambling - 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 Thorncombe Wood, 30 West Bay.

Wheatear, Christchurch Harbour © Dave Hill.


















Stonechat, Christchurch Harbour © Dave Hill.
















Moorhen, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Sunday 5th November 2023

Black Brant - 1 Butterstreet Cove.
Brent Goose (pale-bellied) - 5 Butterstreet Cove.
Avocet - 242 Brownsea Island.
Grey Plover - 20 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - c35 Poole Harbour (mostly on Brownsea Island).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Swineham.
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Brand's Bay - first Poole Harbour record.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Hambledon Hill, 1 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 3 Hambledon Hill.
Marsh Harrier - 4 Poole Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Swineham.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 2 Poole Harbour. 1 Durlston CP, 1 Poole Bay.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes.
Great White Egret - 3 Hampreston fields, 1 Longham Lakes.
Spoonbill - 28 Poole Harbour (mostly at Arne).
Little Gull - 1 Butterstreet Cove 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Hengistbury Head.
Wood Pigeon - c500 Durlston CP, 1200 Peveril Point, 1550 Pentridge Down, c2000 Poole Harbour, 
  600+ Ringstead Bay, 25,000 West Bay.
Swallow - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Peveril Point.
Black Redstart - 1 Peveril Point.
Wheatear - 1 Ringstead Bay.
Brambling - 3 Pentridge Down.
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Saturday 4th November 2023

Grey Phalarope - 1 Ferrybridge.
Great Shearwater - 1-2 Chesil Cove.
Storm Petrel - 5 Branksome, 1 Chesil Cove, 2+ Durlston CP, 2-3+ Peveril Point.
Leach's Petrel - a possible Branksome, 56 Chesil Cove, 3 Durlston CP, 1 Weymouth Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 4 Chesil Cove, 2 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Poole Bay.
Arctic Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Common Tern - 2 Mudeford Quay.
Little Gull - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Hengistbury Head.
Skua sp. - 1 Christchurch Harbour (photo on the CHOG website), 1 Durlston CP.
Arctic Skua - 1 dark-phase Durlston CP, 1 pale-phase Weymouth Bay.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Wick.
Black Redstart - 1 Peveril Point.
Blackbird - a leucistic male in Muscliff.
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Head.

Late news: Bittern, Lodmoor, yesterday.

Wigeon, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Great White Egret, Longham Lakes yesterday © Janet Panter.
Leucistic Blackbird, Muscliff © Mike Kirby.


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Friday 3rd November 2023

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Eider - 3 Poole Harbour.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Knot - 16 Bestwall.
Greenshank - 5 Arne Moors.
Spotted Redshank - 5 Arne Moors.
Woodcock - 1 Durlston NNR.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Brands Bay, 1 central Poole Harbour, 1 Wareham Channel.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Durlston NNR
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Bestwall (unusual here), 1 Brands Bay, 1 Studland Bay.
Great White Egret - 2 Arne (Shipstal Point), 3 Middlebere.
Bittern - 1 Swineham.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 8+ Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1 Middlebere.
Merlin - 1 Durlston NNR.
Wood Pigeon - 2100 Durlston NNR.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Bay (caught and ringed).
Swallow - 2 Durlston NNR.
House Martin - 1 Durlston NNR.
Wheatear - 1 Durlston NNR.
Firecrest - 2 Durlston NNR.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Lytchett Bay (caught and ringed - first site record).
Brambling - 11 Durlston NNR.
Crossbill - 5 over Shaftesbury, 1 West Bay.

Yellow-browed Warbler, Bridport © Tom Brereton.

















Great Grey Shrike, Lytchett Bay © Shaun Robson.















Pied Wagtail, Christchurch harbour © Dave Hill.
















Rock Pipit, Christchurch harbour © Dave Hill.
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Thursday 2nd November 2023

FERRUGINOUS DUCK - 1 still from Viewing Shelter, Radipole RSPB
Eider - 1 from Branksome Chine
Common Scoter - 1 East, 7 West past Durlston CP
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still North Lake, Longham Lakes
Avocet - 102 at morning roost, Pergin's Island
Sanderling - 8 past Branksome Chine
Little Gull - 1 still Lyme Regis Harbour
Pomerine Skua - 1East past Durlston CP
Arctic Skua - 2 East past Durlston CP (1 Light Phase, 1 Dark), 1 Chesil Cove
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Durlston CP, 2 probable entering Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 3 close in to Portland Castle, 1 off Branksome Chine
Leach's Petrel - 5 past Ferrybridge, 2 past Chesil Cove, 2 past Durlston CP, 1 past Peveril Pt.
Cattle Egret - 12 Frome Valley from Wareham to Stoborough Causeway
Merlin - 1 in off sea at Durlston CP

Yesterday: -

Purple Sandpiper - 2 at Portland Bill
 

Black-tailed Godwits, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

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