Saturday 31st August 2024

Garganey - 1 Brownsea
Avocet - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Rodden Hive
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Black-tailed Godwit - 183 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Lodmoor
Greenshank - 14 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - juvenile Wareham Channel
Balearic Shearwater - 73 past West Bexington
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor, 36 Brownsea Lagoon, 11 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay, 5 Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle 1 Poole Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Castle
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Ringstead
Wheatear - 1 Lodmoor, 7 Maiden Castle, 17 Ringstead, 3 Langton Herring, 1 West Bay pier
Yellow Wagtail - 25 Langton Herring

Dipper, River Lim Lyme Regis  © Helen Wood


Avocet, Rodden Hive  © Paul Harris


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Friday 30th August 2024

Garganey - 1 Hengistbury Head
Avocet - 34 Brownsea
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Brownsea
Knot - 2 Brownsea
Sanderling - 8 Brownsea
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past West Bexington
White Stork - 1 Corfe Castle
Spoonbill - 29 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Hengistbury Head`, 10 Poole Harbour
Wryneck - 1 Knowle Hill, 1 dead in Spetisbury garden
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Slepe Heath, 2 Longham Lakes
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell, Portland
 Redstart - 1 Maiden Castle
Whinchat - 1 Winterbourne Herringston
Wheatear - 1 Maiden castle, 1 Bind Barrow Hill Burton Bradstock, 3 Baiter
Yellow Wagtail - 18 Bind Barrow Hill Burton Bradstock

Ringed Plover, Lyme Regis  © Helen Wood


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Thursday 29th August 2024

Greylag Goose - 160 Silverlake
Egyptian Goose - 10 Silverlake
Garganey - 1 Brownsea Island NT
Goosander - 13 Silverlake
Avocet - 14 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 5 Woodsford Quarry, 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmnoor
Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Caspian Gull - 1cy Lodmoor (now a probable Yellow-legged Gull)
Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - Stanpit Bight
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake, 3 Stanpit Bight, 2 Lodmoor
Little Egret - 6  Silverlake
Osprey - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 8 Wareham Channel/Middlebere
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St Aldhelms Head, 16 ringed at Carey garden
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor
Redstart - 1 St Alshelms Head, 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Hyde Heath
Whinchat - 2 Hartland Tramway,  1 Bridging Camp
Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 8 St Aldhelms Head, 3 Hengistbury, 3 Hartland Moor
Yellow Wagtail - 6 St Aldhelms Head, 32 Stanpit

Yesterday:
Balearic Shearwayer - 80 past Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill

Stonechat, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


Redstart, Stanpit Marsh   ©  Mike Kirby


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Wednesday 28th August 2024

Garganey - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover -1 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit, 1 over Longham Lakes
Knot - 1 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Sanderling - 12 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 4+ Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 4 Middlebere
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down
Wryneck - 1 trapped & ringed at Careys Secret Garden
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped and ringed at Lytchett Bay
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Tyneham, 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 11+ in Corfe River valley, mostly near Sharford Bridge, 5 Durlston CP
Redstart - 2 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP
Whinchat - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 19 Christchurch Harbour, 8 over Ringstead Bay, 1 Durlston CP
Tree Pipit - 13 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP (50-100 arrived from the south)

Wheatear, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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Tuesday 27th August 2024

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 7 Middlebere
Greenshank - Christchurch Harbour marsh
Caspian Gull - juvenile Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 45 east past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 9 Wick Meadows
Osprey - 3 fishing over Abbotsbury Swannery, c.10 Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
 Yellow Wagtail - 5 Swineham

Dipper, River Lim Lyme Regis  © Helen Wood







Rock Pipit, Lyme Regis  © Helen Wood


Sandwich Tern Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

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Monday 26th August 2024

Goosander - 18 Silverlake.
Nightjar - 1 netted and ringed at Wareham (Carey).
Swift - 6 Longham Lakes, 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 21 Lytchett Fields.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 8 Christchurch Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Silverlake.
Cattle Egret - 2 Stanpit, 1 Silverlake.
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 3 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1-2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Middlebere, 1 Brands Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 2 The Fleet (Herbury).
Tree Pipit - 10 Stanpit, 8 Wareham (Carey).
Yellow Wagtail - 22 Swineham, 8 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake, 1 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit.
Wheatear - 6 Hartland, 2 Stanpit, 2 Lytchett Fields.
Grasshopper Warbler - 11 Wareham (Carey).

Whinchat, Stanpit © Scott Usher.

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Sunday 25th August 2024

Nightjar - 1 netted and ringed at Longham Lakes.
Grey Plover - 3 Brownsea Island.
Knot - 3 Ferrybridge.
Ruff - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 23 Lytchett Bay, 6 Brownsea Island, 3 Poole Harbour cruise, 1 Brand's Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 12 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Portland Bill.
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere, 1 Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 17 past Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 500+ past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 26 past Portland Bill.
Great Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 21 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 10+ Poole Harbour cruise, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Poole Harbour cruise, 1-4 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere.
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill.
Hobby - 2 Poole Harbour cruise.
Tree Pipit - 18 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 42 Stanpit.
Common Redstart - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Longham Lakes.
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere, 1 Sunnyside Farm.
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 9 Lytchett Bay, 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Garden Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Longham Lakes
Dipper - 1 Lyme Regis.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Purbeck.

Grey Heron, Iford bridge © Clinton Whale.




















Sandwich Terns, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.















Dipper, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell.

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Saturday 24th August 2024

Egyptian Goose - 89 Woodsford area.
Bar-headed Goose - 1 Lodmoor, presumably an escape.
Garganey - 1 Brownsea Island.
Wigeon - 2 Brand's Bay.
Grey Plover - 3 Brownsea Island, 2 Poole Harbour cruise.
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 4 Brownsea Island, 3 Poole Harbour cruise, 1 Brand's Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 6 Brownsea Island, 2 Brand's Bay.
Caspian Gull - 1 Brownsea Island.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 24 Brownsea Island, 15 Poole Harbour cruise.
Osprey - 7+ Poole Harbour cruise, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Poole Harbour cruise, 1 Lytchett Bay.
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Friday 23rd August 2024

Garganey - 1 near Shell Bay / South Haven
Nightjar - 1 over Lily Pond, Hengistbury
Spotted  Crake - 1 still Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Avocet - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brands Bay, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank  - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Tern - 2 west past Hengistbury Head
Sooty Shearwater - 2 west past Durlston CP, 1 west past Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill, 1 west past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Wareham Channel
Cattle Egret  - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - several Poole Harbour, 4 Wareham Channel, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Honey Buzzard  1 over Winterborne Stickland, 1 over Wyke, Weymouth
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Peregrine - 2 Bournemouth, 2 St. Peter's Church, Dorchester
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Studland Village
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Hengistbury Head
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head

Curlew, Stanpit Marsh © James Gurney


Peregrines, Bournemouth © David Wareham


Sandwich Terns, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

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