Thursday 3rd April 2025

Pink- footed Goose - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB and later at Swineham Point
LESSER SCAUP - 1 Longham Lakes north end of South Lake
Black - necked Grebe - 1 Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Holes Bay 1st record since 2016
Ruff  - 2 Lower Piddle valley and 1 later at Swineham point
Common Tern - 12 Hengistbury Head, 1 Longham Lakes
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 1 Dewlish Water Meadows
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Swineham Point
Red Kite - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Corfe Castle, 1 Charmouth, 1 Warmwell
Chiff Chaff (Siberian) - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Whitethroat - 1 Bradbury Rings
Redstart - 1 Hegistbury Head
Wheatear - 8 Hengistbury Head - 2 Peveril Point
Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog

Yesterday
White Stork - 1 possible over Rye Hill Bere Regis
Hoopoe - 2 Brady Lane nr Burton Bradstock

Pink - footed Goose - Swineham Point © James Leaver



Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Mandarin Duck - 2 Black Bridge Blandford Forum
Garganey - 2 Hengistbury Head
Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Eider - 3 Chesil Beach
Velvet Scoter - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Chesil Beach
Common Scoter - 285 Chesil Beach, 42 Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Whimbrel - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Kimmeridge
Knot - 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury Head
Spotted Redshank - 3 Turlin Point Lytchet Bay
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Mediterranean Gull 200+ Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Arctic Tern - 1 Chesil Beach 
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Spoonbill - 7 Shipstal Hide Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Hengistbury Head
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour
Red Kite - 5 Arne RSPB, 5 Creech Heath, 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Worbret, 1 Portemsham, 1 Bridport, 1 Swanage, 1 Sliverlake, 1 Wareham Golf Course, 1 Sadborow, 1 Ferndown
White tailed Eagle - 1 Silverlake
Swallow - 2 Longham Lakes
House Martin - 2 East Stoke
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wheatear - 4 Hengistbury Head, 1 Eggardon Hill
Dipper - 1 Kingcombe DWT
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Chesil Beach



Chiff Chaff - Stanpit  Marsh © Clinton Whale.

Tuesday 1st April 2025.

Brent Goose - 18 Christchurch Harbour.
Lesser Scaup - 1 still at Longham Lakes.
Garganey - 2 past Portland Bill.
Common Scoter - 590 past Portland Bill, 5 past Hengistbury Head.
Grey Plover - 5 Brownsea Island.
Sanderling - 4 Brownsea Island, 2 past Hengistbury Head.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Island.
Sandwich Tern - 50 past Portland Bill, 18 past Hengistbury Head.
Little Gull - 1 Swineham.
Arctic Tern - 1 past Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Great White Egret - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Osprey - 3+ Poole Harbour, 1 Bridport, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Morden Bog.
Red Kite - 1 Parkstone, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Rockley Park, 1 Swineham, 1 Tolpuddle.
Meadow Pipit - 990 along Portland West Cliffs, 77 arrived Christchurch Harbour.