Monday 30th September 2024

Goosander - 1 Silverlake, 4 over Lytchett Fields

 Red-breasted Merganser - 7 Poole Harbour

 Pallid Swift - possible past Hengistbury Head

Avocet - c.130 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Lagoon

Caspian Gull - 1 on flooded fields West Bay

Forster's Tern - returning 3rd winter (north west) Holes Bay

Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor 'hump' into Weymouth Bay

Balearic Shearwater - 10 flew past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Wick Water Meadows

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Merlin - 1 Durlston Head

Short-eared Owl - 1 flew over Brownsea Island Lagoon

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Sunday 29th September 2024

 Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Studland Bay

Avocet - 22 Middlebere

Black-tailed Godwit - c.510 Middlebere, 61 Brands Bay

Knot - 4 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Chard Junction GP

Greenshank - 2 Middlebere, 2 Brands Bay

Little Tern - 1 Brands Bay

Black Tern - 1 Brands Bay, 4 Wareham Channel

Great Skua - 1 past Durlston, 1 Wareham Channel

Arctic Skua - 1 past Durlston

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon NT

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Goshawk - 1 Middlebere

Woodlark - 1 over Pentridge Down

Saturday 28th September 2024

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Golden Plover - 27 Lodmoor

Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 71 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 3 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay, 4 Shipstal

Balearic Shearwater - 40 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Wick Water Meadows

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Cerne Abbas, 2 Shipstal

Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Chiffchaff - 132 ringed at Lytchett Heath and 143 at Carey's Secret Garden

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Godlingston Hill

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Observatory

Whinchat - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head

 Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Fancy's Farm Portland, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 15 Stanpit

Peregrine, Durlston  © Will Bown

Friday 27th September 2024

 Barnacle Goose - 1 Silverlake

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Brownsea

Curlew - 86 Brands Bay

Knot - 4 Brownsea, 1 Brands Bay

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake

Jack Snipe - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

(Bonaparte's Gull - possible on Brownsea Lagoon)

Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 1 Puddletown Water Meadows

Osprey - 1 briefly settled in a tree by River Frome at Frampton

Honey Buzzard - 2 flew out to sea Studland Bay

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay

Redstart - 1 Barleycrates Lane, Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 in a Poundbury Garden

Wheatear - 1 Silverlake

Thursday 26th September 2024

Balearic Shearwater - c100 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 10 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lower Piddle Floods

Glossy Ibis - over Radipole lake 

Honey Buzzard - 1 flew out to sea Swanage

Hobby - 2 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Coward's Marsh

RED_FOOTED FALCON - 1, 1st/cy Lodmoor RSPB

Golden Plover - 5 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle Floods

Greenshank - 4 Lower Piddle Floods

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Green Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Cattle Egret - 18 east over Swineham Pt, 4 Wick meadows, 3 Stilt Pools Best wall Meadows, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 36 Poole Hbr, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Osprey - 1 juv Wareham Channel

Ringed Plover - 90 Stanpit Marsh, 28 Fisherman's Dock sea wall Poole.

Little Stint - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Common Sandpiper - 3 Silverlake, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Floods

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 over Oakdale (NocMig), 1 Stanpit Marsh

Meadow Pipit - 5000+ over Portland, 70 Stanpit Marsh, 60 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 10 Hengistbury Hd. 

Wheatear - 5 Baiter Park, 3 Ferrybridge

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill

Blackcap - c1000 Portland, 15 Hengistbury Hd, 4 PCW Drain Poole

Chiffchaff - c1000 Portland, 60 Stanpit Marsh, 50 PCW Drain Poole, 45 Hengistbury Hd.

Willow Warbler - 3 Wick, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Ruff - Lower Piddle Floods © Gary Hayman

Tuesday 24th September 2024

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Brand's Bay

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake

Balearic Shearwater - 20 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 6 Hartland, 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Bestwall Meadows

Great White Egret - 7 Middlebere, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Spoonbill - 60+ Brownsea Lagoon, 22 Middlebere

Honey Buzzard - 1 NE over Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery flew down the Fleet.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 2 Goathorn / Brand's Bay

Hobby - 1 imm Lower Piddle Floods

Ringed Plover - 60 Hengistbury Hd.

Golden Plover - 4 Brand's Bay, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lytchett Bay (NocMig)

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Common Sandpiper - 4 Silverlake, 1 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 7 Lower Piddle Floods

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Silverlake

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 on the Stilt Pools 

Swallow - 160 Hengistbury Hd.

Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 6 Lower Piddle Floods, 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Hd,

Redwing  - 1 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes

Song Thrush - 6 Hengistbury Hd over Double Dykes

Chiffchaff - 80 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Swanage YHA.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Bunting - 14 Hengistbury Hd.

Garganey - Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

Yellow-legged Gull -  Stilt Pools - Meadows © Gary Hayman

Spotted Flycatcher - Swanage YHA © Gary Hayman

Monday 23rd September 2024

Common Scoter - 10 past Hengistbury Hd.

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Durlston CP.

Manx Shearwater - 2 past Durlston CP.

Balearic Shearwater - 9 past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 4 Wick Meadows

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Brand's Bay, 1+ Lodmoor RSPB.

Spoonbill - 74 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Stanpit Marsh.

Goshawk - 1 imm fem Pentridge Down.

Osprey - 1 Brand's Bay

Hobby - 1 over Lower Piddle Floods

Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake.

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods, 1 Hengistbury HHC Sandbar.

Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Silverlake.

Green Sandpiper - 5 Lower Piddle Floods, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hatch Pond

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 10+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Tree Pipit - 2 Pentridge Down

Yellow Wagtail - 6 Durlston CP, 4 over Hengistbury Hd, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Pentridge Down

Redstart - 3 Pentridge Down

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Pentridge Down

Chiffchaff - 90 Hengistbury Hd, 22 Middlebere, 11 Wick.

Willow Warbler -1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Middlebere.

Firecrest - 7 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Sunday 22nd September 2024

Common Scoter - 1 Swineham GPs on Main Pit
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 24 Brownsea Lagoon
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 on Stilt Pools at Swineham, but not seen this evening
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 3 Silverlake, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)
Wood Sandpiper - 1 briefly at Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 briefly at Silverlake, 1 Lower Piddle Valley                 Floods (Swineham)
Spotted Redshank - 8 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  11 Middlebere, 7 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - c70 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 5 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 near Round Island (Poole Harbour), 1 Silverlake
Honey-buzzard - 1 headed north over East Cliffs on Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Lower Piddle Valley (Swineham), 1 Stanpit
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Old Hill on Portland
Firecrest - 1 Cogden Beach
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at PBO
Whinchat - 1 Silverlake
Yellow Wagtail - 24 Stanpit, 3 Lower Piddle Valley Floods (Swineham)

Yesterday : a Red Kite at Athelhampton

Saturday 21st September 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Stint - 1 Tidmoor Point
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  23 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Brand's Bay
Caspian Gull - 2cy on Stilt Pools at Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill (18 past yesterday)
Spoonbill - 73 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 7 Wick, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Tidmoor
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 heard in Littlesea Woods (The Fleet)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male at Shillingstone in field opposite railway station, 1 at PBO

Yesterday : a Wryneck heard at Arne RSPB in woods at start of the Shipstal Trail.

Friday 20th September 2024

Garganey -  Female on South Marsh (Stanpit)
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 4 Hengistbury Head, 2 Stanpit, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay again from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Snipe  - 1 Holes Bay (SW), the first of the season
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay (NE), 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere at high tide, 1 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  15 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Middlebere
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 66 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Christchurch Harbour flying upriver
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 3 Priory Marsh (Christchurch)
Hobby - 1 at Broadmayne (over lake by Watergates Lane)
Yellow-browed Warbler - a probable heard at Tidmoor Point
Ring Ouzel - 1 briefly on Batters at Hengistbury
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Middlebere
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Yellow Wagtail - 8 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Ringstead Bay

Thursday 19th September 2024

Swift - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Ballard Down
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Bight
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpipper - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Stint - 1 Swineham (Stilt Pools)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay (SW)
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour
Merlin - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Ballard Down
Hirundines  - 16,680 counted over Ballard Down this morning including 10,810 House Martins, 7,500 House Martins and 4,600 Swallows over Hengistbury
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still at PBO
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 over Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 31 over Hengistbury Head, c18 Stanpit Marsh

Wednesday 18th September 2024

Common Scoter - 4 West off Durlston CP
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 on long Groyne, Hengistbury, 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still on pools near The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank - 4 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB, 1 again Lytchett Fields, 1 from     Stone Bench, Upton CP
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1cy Western Scrapes, Lodmoor RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Hengistbury
Spoonbill - 2 from Coombe Heath Viewpoint, Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 still Lodmoor RSPB, 2 high over Swanage Bay, 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 1 over Arne Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Crown Estate Field, Portland, 1 ringtail off Hengistbury
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red-footed Falcon - 1 possible Juv towards Clayhanger Farm
Merlin - 1 over Hengistbury
Swallow - 4,500 over Hengistbury
House Martin - 2,600 over Hengistbury
Firecrest - 3 in Wood, Hengistbury, 1 in Youth Hostel Garden, Swanage
Yellow Wagtail - 19 Crouch Hill, 16 over hengistbury Head, 11 Durlston CP
TAWNY PIPIT - 1 on Abbotsbury Beach
Tree Pipit - 2 over Hengistbury

Yesterday: -

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Arne RSPB

Chiffchaff, Portesham © Jayson Grove

Little Stint, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Starling, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

 

Tuesday 17th September 2024

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Stint - 1 still Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 East Lake. Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Fields
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Goathorn
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Kingfisher - 1 Longham Lakes
Wryneck - 1 Godlingston Gap
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields
Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st winter, still Lytchett Fields
House Martin - 260 East from Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 ringed at Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Hatch Pond, 2 Goathorn
Pied Flycatcher - 1 still Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Crouch Hill
Wheatear - 4 Hartland Moor, 3 Crouch Hill, 2 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock
Yellow Wagtail - 7 before Stud Farm, Soldier's Road, Hartland, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Meadow Pipit - 226 over Lytchett Fields

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 44 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Seacombe (1 adult, 2 juvenile)
Corn Bunting - 15 Wyke Down

Knot, Ferrybridge © Will Bown

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stanpit Marsh © Allan Hansford

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Monday 16th September 2024

Avocet - 50+ Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Billy Winter's, Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Fields, 1 Hartland Moor
Great White Egret - 2 still Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail in off sea, Abbotsbury Swannery
Kingfisher - 1 Ferrybridge
Hobby - 1 over South Lake, Longham Lakes
Red-backed Shrike - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Hartland Moor
Redstart - 2 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 2 Lytchett Fields
Wheatear - 3 over Portesham, 2 Hartland Moor
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwits, Ferrybridge © Will Bown

Bearded Reedling, Radipole RSPB © Maurice Whitney

Red-backed Shrike, Lytchett Fields © Martin Wood

 

Sunday 15th September 2024

Mandarin - 2 still Poole Park
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 699 Holes Bay
Knot - 3 Brands Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Pools
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Pools
Greenshank - 7 Brands Bay, 1 from Stone Bench, Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 6 Salt Hurns, Stanpit, 5 Hartland Heath, 1 Bill Hill, Southwell, Portland
Great White Egret - 1 over Wick
Osprey - 4 from Hydes Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 from Hydes Heath, Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 Moonfleet, The Fleet, 1 Hartland Heath
Hobby - 2 again over Longham Lakes
Red-backed Shrike - 1 Lytchett Fields
Woodlark - 8 Hartland Heath
Firecrest - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Holes Bay, 1 in nets Culverwell, Portland
Tree Pipit - 1 over Wick

Stonechat, Canford Heath © William Morris

Mandarin, Poole Park © Clinton Whale

Buzzard, Upton © Graham Nash

Saturday 14th September 2024

Brent Goose - 1 Ferrybridge

Mandarin Duck - 2 Poole Park

Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Sanderling - 8 Ferrybridge

Spoonbill - 49 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 34 Hartland Moor, 4 over Durlston CP, 4 Hengisbury Head, 2 Longham Lakes

Great White Egret - 1 Sandford

Osprey - 3 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB, 1 Ltchett Bay, 1 Morden Bog

Honey Buzzard - 1 East Weares Portland

Hobby - 2 Longham Lakes

Spotted Flycatcher - 10-20 Lambert Castle

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell Portland, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hartland Moor

Whinchat - 2 Greenlands Farm Studland, 1 St Aldhelms Head

Friday 13th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 St Aldhelms Head

Avocet - 118 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Knot - 5 Middlebere Channel

Ruff - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham

Spoonbill - 52 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 7 Poole Harbour

Wryneck - 1 Bradbury Rings

Garden Warbler - 1 Reap Lane Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Reap Lane Portland

Black Redstart - 1 Knowle Hill Church Knowle

Whinchat - 11 Hartland Moor, 1 Barn Field Hengisbury Head

Whinchat  - Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Thursday 12th September 2024

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Knot - 9 Ferrybridge

Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brands Bay

Harrier sp - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge

Wryneck - 2 Wild Woodbury 1 of which was trapped and ringed

Garden Warbler - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wheatear - 3 Peveril Point

Sparrowhawk - Blandford St Mary ©  Alison Palmer 

Wednesday 11th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 Durlston CP trapped & ringed

Swift - 1 Durlston CP

Ruff - 2 Swineham Point, 1 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Stilt Pool

Spotted Redshank - 5 poss 7 Middlebere Channel

Caspian Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB by the hump

Spoonbill - 37 Brownsea Laggoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Wareham Causeway

Great White Egret - 1 River Stour Bryanston Sch, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Osprey - 4 Wareham Channel from Russell Quay, 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Swineham, 1 Kimmeridge 

Red Kite - 3 Iwerne Courtney

White tailed Eagle - 1 over Spetisbury

Woodlark - 9 South Middlebere, 6 Silverlake

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP

Whinchat - 2 Hengisbury Head

Peregrin Falcon - Dorchester © Alan Membury

Great white Egret - Lodmoor RSPB Marcus Head

 ©  Marcus Head

Tuesday 10th September 2024

Nightjar - 1 Cogden
Common Sandpiper -  2 Stanpit, 1 PC World Drain
Green Sandpiper - 1 Doddings Farm CBs
Greenshank -  2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Caspian Gull - 1cy briefly on East Cliffs (Portland) this afternoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Durlston CP
Sooty Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 1 Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 10 Middlebere, 1 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB)
Great White Egret - 3 in Barn Bight (Christchuch Harbour)
Cattle Egret - 11 Wick, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
PALLID HARRIER - likely 2cy male seen in flight around Portland Bill this morning but not reported since
Goshawk - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Hobby - 1 Brand's Bay
Firecrest - 3 Wild Woodbury DWT
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Wild Woodbury DWT
Whinchat - 2 Wild Woodbury DWT
Ortolan Bunting - 1 in Crown Estate Field at Portland Bill

Monday 9th September 2024

 Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Littlesea

Goosander - 2 River Frome near Woodsford Farm

Crane - 2 high over Spetisbury

Avocet - 18 Brownsea Lagoon

Black-tailed Godwit - 328 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Little Stint - 1 at Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - 3 Lower Piddle floods, Swineham GPs

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 17 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 9 Brownsea, 4 Abbotsbury beach pool

Great Skua - 4 Great Skua past Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 6 past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 6 past Portland Bill in 30 minutes (7:30- 0800)

Great Shearwater - 700 past Portland Bill in 30 minutes, 3 past Durlston Head

Spoonbill - 43 Brownsea Lagoon, 7 Arne

Cattle Egret - 8 Priory Marsh

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Barn Bight Christchurch

Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere

Wryneck - 1 Turnerspuddle Heath

Pied Flycatcher - 1 near Sea Life Centre Weymouth, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor

Redstart - 11 Pentridge Down

Whinchat - 6 Clandon Farm, Martinstown, 2 Pentridge Down

Wheatear - 2 Peveril Point Swanage, 3 Ferrybridge, 12 Christchurch Harbour

Yellow Wagtail - 9 Littlesea

Tree Pipit - 22 Pentridge Down

Knot, Ferrybridge  © Will Brown

Black-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor © Mike Hetherington

Mediterranean Gull, Lodmoor © Mike Hetherington

Sunday 8th September 2024

Curlew Sandpiper -  1 still at Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 still at Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper -  5 on Arne shoreline, 3 Stanpit, 1 Lower Piddle Valley flood
Green Sandpiper - 4 Arne Moors, 1 Lower Piddle Valley flood
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lower Piddle Valley flood
Greenshank -  2 Lower Piddle Valley flood
Caspian Gull - 1cy at Cogden Beach this morning
Balearic Shearwater - 15 Portland Bill, 1 past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit
Cattle Egret - 22 Abbotsbury Swannery fileds
Osprey - 4+ Wareham Channel, 2 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB), 1 over Silverlake,1 Keyhaven, 1 Lytchett             Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
Merlin - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Studland village
Woodlark - 4 Middlebere
Firecrest - 2 Cogden Beach
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit
Whinchat - 3 Stour Valley NR
Yellow Wagtail - 200+ roosted at Abbotsbury Swannery this evening
Tree Pipit - 1 Middlebere

Sparrowhawk, Tuckton © Dave Hill

 

Pintail, Lower Piddle Valley © Garry Hayman

Shoveler & Wood Sandpiper, Lower Piddle Valley © Garry Hayman

 

 

Saturday 7th September 2024

Goosander - 16 at Silverlake (West Lake) this evening
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper -  2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 7 Silverlake, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 juvenile at Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank -  2 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Spoonbill - 46 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Stanpit, 2 Silverlake
Cattle Egret - 13 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 3 or 4 in Wareham Channel, 1 Waddock Lakes fish pond
Wryneck - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 above Culverwell at Portland Bill, 1 at Squirrel Inn, Laymore (near Maudlin)
Woodlark - 6 Silverlake
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped and ringed at Careys Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Pentridge Down
Redstart - 11 Pentridge Down
Whinchat - 2 Pentridge Down, 1 Silverlake this morning
Yellow Wagtail - 24 between Didlington & Crichel Mills, 1 Waddock Cross CBs, 1 Pentridge Down
Tree Pipit - 22 Pentridge Down
Ortolan Bunting - 1 in Coombefield Quarry (Portland), 1 flushed from Crown Estates Field (Portland Bill)

Yestesterday - Baird's Sandpiper, Ferrybridge © Pete Coe

 

Wryneck, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

 

Little Stint, Ferrybridge © Garry Hayman

Friday 6th September 2024

Whimbrel - 1 over Winterbourne Stickland

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge

BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 Ferrybridge

Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Flood Fields, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Black Tern - 2 Off Portland Bill

Artic Skua - 6 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 200 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 43 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 over Portland Obs

Great White Egret - 3 Standpit Creek

Osprey - 3 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 over Goathorn Brands Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Ring - necked Parakeet - 1 Studland Village

Pied Flycatcher - 1 PC World Holes Bay

Whinchat - 8 Kimmeridge, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Durlston

Wheatear - 3 Peveril Point Swanage

Ortolan Bunting - 1 Portland heard calling at Blacknor 

Wood Sandpiper - Lower Piddle Valley Garry Hayman

Thursday 5th September 2024

Pintail - 2 Brands Bay, 1 Holes Bay

Golden Plover - 37 Kimmeridge

Grey Plover - 3 Brands Bay

Knot - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge

Little Stint - 3 Ferrybridge

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Holes Bay

Black Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Bay, 3 Brands Bay, 1 Silverlake, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wednesday 4th September 2024

Garganey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 12 up river from Christchurch Hbr. a.m.

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Spoonbill - 38 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 7 seen in Wareham Channel, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 East Holme GP.

Hobby - 1 Cheselbourne

Avocet - 19 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Christchurch Hbr.

Curlew Sandpiper - 2juv Brownsea Lagoon, 1 on sandpit Hengistbury Hd, 1 Ferrybridge flew up the Fleet.

Ruff - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Christchurch Hbr. 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 21 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 16 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.

Swift - 3 over Hengistbury Hd.

Swallow - 75 over Hengistbury Hd.

Tree Pipit - 4 Durlston CP, 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 3 Durlston CP.

Redstart - 2 Maiden Castle, 2 Durlston CP, 1 Ballard Down, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Ballard Down

Wheatear - c12 Maiden Castle, 7 Stanpit Marsh, 7 Durlston CP, 5 Ballard Down, 4 Hengistnury Hd.

Whitethroat - 10+ Maiden Castle, 6 Ballard Down, 4 Hengistbury Hd.

Wheatear - Maiden Castle © Nigel Tooth

10 Grey Heron leaving out to sea - Durlston CP © Brian Edge

Tuesday 3rd September 2024

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Wareham Channel

Balearic Shearwater - c400 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 10 Salt Hurns Christchurch Hbr.

Great White Egret - Salt Hurns before heading north

Spoonbill - 40 Brownsea Lagoon 

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - up to 6 Poole Harbour (3/4 Middlebere, 3 Lytchett Bay), 2 out to sea Portland Bill, 1 flew west off shore West Bay

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 6 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brand's Bay

Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brand's Bay

Little Tern - 1 Wareham Channel off Giggers Island

Wryneck - 1 Coombe Valley Road Overcombe

Woodlark - 4 Soldier Road Stud

Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Portland Bill, 3 behind Currys Poole, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Holes Bay, 1 Studland

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Culverwell

Wryneck Coombe Valley Road © Daragh Croxson

Curlew Sandpiper - Brownsea Lagoon © Clive Hargrave

White-tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel © Gary Holderness

Spoonbill - over Brownsea © Clive Hargrave

Monday 2nd September 2024

Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - c200 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 3 Wick, 1 Sunnyside Farm

Spoonbill - 38 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Marsh Harrier - 2 Lytchett Bay/Fields, 1 Longham Lakes

Osprey - 3 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistnury Hd, 1 Morden Bog.

Golden Plover - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Portland Bill

Little Stint - 1 Brand's Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 18+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Great Shua - 1 Portland Bill

Little Tern - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Tern - 19 Lytchett Fields RSPB 

Yellow Wagtail - 7 Lyme Regis Beach, 6 Litton Cheney, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Redstart - 3 Portland Bill, 1 St. Aldhelm's Head

Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Litton Cheney, 1 St. Aldhelm's Hd.

Pied Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill, 1 St. Aldhelm's Hd.

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Sunday 1st September 2024

Garganey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Goosander - 14 Silverlake

Balearic Shearwater - 200+ with 176 lingering off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 3 again at Wick

Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake

Spoonbill - 31 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Brand's Bay

Osprey - 1 SE Portland Bill. 1 Middlebere

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Fisherman's Bank

Common Sandpiper - 1 Fisherman's Bank

Green Sandpiper - 5 Swineham Pt.

Greenshank - 2 Fisherman's Bank, 1 through Silverlake

Black Tern - 5 probable Portland Bill

Roseate Tern - 1 off Shipstal Arne

Yellow Wagtail - c20 Kimmeridge

Wryneck - 1 reported from the Top Fields Portland Bill

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Common Snipe & Dunlin Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale