Dorset Birds: June 2024

Sunday 30th June 2024

Great White Egret - 10 or 11 flying NW over Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 over Wild Woodbury DWT

Yesterday : A Baleric Shearwater past Portland Bill

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Dunlin, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 29th June 2024

Garganey -2 Swineham GPs
Cattle Egret - 1 Wick
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Swineham GPs

Last night : 9 Puffins at Dancing Ledge

Friday 28th June 2024

Balearic Shearater - 2 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 2 over Wick Fields

Red Kite over Abbotsbury

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 1 Wareham channel

Br-tailed Godwit - 13 Stanpit Marsh

Roseate Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Thursday 27th June 2024

Goshawk - 1 seen over Carey's Secret Garden

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Brands Bay

Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Late reported News

24th June 2024

RED-FOOTED BOOBY - 1 imm landed on diving boat (Stayed for approx 50 minutes) Mupe/Warbarrow Bay and flew off approx half mile from shore as they sailed towards Kimmeridge heading towards Arish Mel Gap.

Red-footed Booby - on Diving Boat © Vince Jenkins

Wednesday 26th June 2024

Balearic Shearwater - 20+ past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 2 seen flying down the Piddle Valley toward Poole Hbr.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 in the Wareham Channel

Osprey - (022) Seen several times over the Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Holme GP, 1 Swineham Stilt Pools.

Common Sandpiper - 2 edge Wareham Chennel

Green Sandpiper - 2 Holme GP.

Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Little Tern - 1 over Arne Bay

Sandwich Tern - Poole Harbour © Nick Hull

Tuesday 25th June 2024

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 1 Lytchett Bay

Bar-tailed Godwit - 7 Brand's Bay

Whimbrel -2 Ferrybridge

Curlew - 51 Brand's Bay

Sand Martin - 100 Hengistbury Hd.

Stonechat - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Monday 24th June 2024

Golden Pheasant - 1 Furzey Island.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 heard over Stanpit.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 1 Arne, 1 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 4 Stanpit.
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit.

Herring Gull juvenile, Christchurch © Clinton Whale

Sunday 23rd June 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Hartland Moor.
Roseate Tern - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor.
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor.

Common Sandpiper - Lodmoor.

Sedge Warbler, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Saturday 22nd June 2024

Pochard - 3 Silverlake.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 Charborough Park.
Goshawk - 1 Carey (Wareham).
Honey Buzzard - 1 Carey (Wareham).
Hobby - 1 Carey (Wareham), 1 Lytchett Bay.
Great White Egret - 5 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 4 Coombe Heath.

Common Whitethroat, Iford © Clinton Whale

Friday 21st June 2024

Black-tailed Godwit - 6 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Swineham.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Swineham.
Red Kite - 1 Charlton Down.
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Carey (Wareham).
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere.
Storm Petrel - 3+ Lyme Bay pelagic.
Balearic Shearwater - 43 Lyme Bay pelagic.

Thursday 20th June 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Newton Heath

Roseate Tern - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere

Little Egret - 4 Silverlake

Red Kite - 1 Silverlake, 1 near World's End Pub A31

Wednesday 19th June 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Hartland Moor

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverlake

Arctic Skua - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor

Hobby - 1 Silverlake

Tuesday 18th June 2024

Black-tailed Godwit - 2 Silverlake

Arctic Skua - 2 offshore at Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 1 offshore at Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 1500+ offshore at Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 100+ offshore at Portland Bill, 2 Kimmeridge

Red Kite - 3 Bridport area, 1 Caundle Marsh, 1 Wareham

Hobby - 1 over Southwell, 1 Bridport

Corn Bunting - 8 seen at Maiden Castle

Corn Bunting, Maiden Castle © Geoff Barlow

Monday 17th June 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit

Redshank - 6 Brownsea Lagoon

Great Skua - 1 offshore Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 3 offshore Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 12+ offshore at Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 over Hengistbury Head

Red Kite - 1 Litton Cheney

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Litton Cheney

Little Grebes, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Little Egret, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Sunday 16th June 2024

Cuckoo - 1 heard in Wareham Forest
Red-throated Diver - 1 Shell Bay
Manx Shearwater - 1 lingering off the Long Groyne at Hengistbury Head
Great White Egret - 2 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 1 Arne RSPB
Wheatear - 1 male on Shell Bay beach

Manx Shearwater, Hengistbury Head © Scott Usher

Saturday 15th June 2024

Little Tern - 9 Mudeford Quay
Arctic Skua - 1 dark-morph off Mudeford Quay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Manx Shearwater - 11 off Mudeford Quay
Red Kite - 1 over A35 near Puddletown
Hobby - 1 Swineham
Golden Oriole - male reported at Cerne Abbas in woodland by rapeseed fields

Friday 14th June 2024

Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stilt Pools at Swineham
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Tern - 16+ Christchurch Harbour area
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 1 Tolpuddle, 1 Carey Secret Garden
Hobby - 1 near West Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Wareham bypass

Thursday 13th June 2024

Apologies for the late posting of this report

Curlew - 16 Brand's Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 31 Brand's Bay
Little Tern - 3 Mudeford Quay
Storm Petrel - 12 sound-lured and trapped at Portland Bill overnight
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - hundreds off Portland Bill, 46 Peveril Point
Golden Oriole - 1 at Broadwey along cyle path near Icen Lane
Melodious Warbler - 1 recorded singing at farm near West Stafford

Wednesday 12th June 2024

Avocet - 3 Brownsea Llagoon
Bar-tailed Godwit - 30 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - c6 Pilot's Point, Studland
Dunlin - 25 Ferrybridge
Red-Throated Diver - 1 still off Studland Beach
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Hobby - 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Thorncombe Woods

Yesterday: -

Corn Bunting - 3 Maiden Castle

Mute Swan, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

Robin, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

Dartford Warbler, Canford Heath © Janet Panter

Tuesday 11th June 2024

Swift - 200+ over Sunnyside / Swineham area
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, Christchurch Harbour
Bar-tailed Godwit - 32 Brands Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 close off Studland Beach
Red Kite - 1West Bay, 1 nr. Lytchett Matravers, 1 Pimperne, 1 Sixpenny Handley
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Hobby - 1 over Herston, Swanage
Raven - 4 Holes Bay
Yellowhammer - 1 Durlston CP

Yesterday: -

Grey Partridge - 1 Winterborne Kingston

Redshank, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Kittiwake, Portland Bill © Sharon Towning

Guillemots, Purbeck Cliffs © Mike Kirby

Monday 10th June 2024

Swift - 765 in off sea Hengistbury, 60 in off Southbourne Cliffs
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 StanpitMarsh
Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Common
Marsh Tit - 1 Thorncombe Woods, in woods near Visitor Centre
Sand Martin - 100+ Wareham Common
Firecrest - 2 Black Hill Enclosure, Thorncombe Woods
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Thorncombe Woods
Wheatear - 1 Crouch Hill, Stanpit Marsh

Little Egret, Hamworthy © Allan Hansford

Robins, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell

Wheatear, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Sunday 9th June 2024

Grey Partridge - 2 Sixpenny Handley
Swift - 12 Moonfleet, The Fleet, 3 Swanage
Cuckoo - 1 Wick
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Moonfleet, The Fleet
Black-tailed Godwit - 100+ Arne Moors RSPB
Knot - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Sanderling - 18 Moonfleet, The Fleet
Arctic Skua - 1 off Chesil Beach
Great Northern Diver - 1 West Bexington
Fulmar - 1 Central Poole Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 6 off Chesil Beach
Spoonbill - 3 on Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 over Thorncombe Woods
White-tailed Eagle - 3 Poole Harbour, 1 over Bridport
Corn Bunting - 15 Moonfleet, The Fleet

Sedge Warbler, Allen Valley © Paul Kirby

Mediterranean Gull, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Grey Partridge, Sixpenny Handley © John Howell

Saturday 8th June 2024

Bar tailed Godwit - 26 Brans Bay, 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Knot - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Gull - Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Cattle Egret - 1 in summer plumage at wick Hegisbury

White tailed Eagle - 1 juv over Dorchester

Little Owl - 1 Woodville North Dorset

Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Hobby - 1 Morden Bog

Yesterday - 5 Eider past Portland Bill

Little Owl - Woodville © John Bishop

Dunlin - Brands Bay © Garry Hayman

Friday 7th June 2024

Bar tailed Godwit - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Knot - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 1 Standpit Marsh

Common Whitethroat - 12 Bradbury Rings

Corn Bunting - 3 Bradbury Rings

Yesterday: 3 Manx Shearwater and 2 Puffin off Portland Bill

Thursday 6th June 2024

Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh which flew high North
Wheatear - 1 East Creech

Yesterday: Portland Bill - 2 Wheatears, 2 Yellow Wagtails, c1300 Manx, 26 Common / Artic Terns, 3 Balearic Shearwaters and a Red throated Diver through on the sea.