Saturday 31st May 2025

Garganey - 1m North Pool, Southdown Ave, Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 heard Carey's Secret Garden
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 possible Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 3 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Roseate Tern - 1 still Abbotsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 6 past Portland Bill
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 2 Carey's Secret Garden with Chicks
White-tailed Eagle - 1 north of Wareham
Hobby - 2 Morden Bog, 1 nr. Carey's Secret Garden
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Radipole RSPB
Corn Bunting - 1 Maiden Castle 

Shelduck, Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Hansford

Garganey, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman
 

Mute Swan, Cygnets & Coot, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

 

Friday 30th May 2025

Avocet - 3 from Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay
Kittiwake - 20+ Portland Bill
Little Gull - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 1st summer Stanpit Marsh
Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 over Cerne Abbas, 1 over Poole Quay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne RSPB
Bee-eater - 1 south from Osmington Mills
Firecrest - 2 The Wood, Christchurch Harbour

Raven, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Chiffchaff, Lodmoor RSPB © Tina Dawkins

Corn Bunting, Abbotsbury © Sue Wingett

Thursday 29th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Little Gull - 2 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 over Puddletown Bypass
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Roebury Lane, Christchurch, 1 Morden Bog
Tree pipit - 1 Morden Bog
Crossbill - 1 Morden Bog

Sanderling, Hengistbury Head © Scott Usher

Canada Geese, Lodmoor RSPB © Paul McAuliffe

Cuckoo, Arne RSPB © Mick Church

 

Wednesday 28th May 2025

Teal - 9 (3 pairs) Lytchett Fields RSPB 

Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Forest, 1 Sturminster Marshall, 1 Corfe Mullen

White-tailed Eagle -1 over Warbarrow Bay

Hobby - 2 over Wareham Forest

Common Crane - 1 over Dorchester Water Meadows p.m. 

Little Ringed Plover - 1 still on the Stilt Pools at Swineham

Sanderling - 16 Ferrybridge, 6 Hengistbury Hd, 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 2 on Arne RSPB shoreline, 1 Ferrybrudge

Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon p.m.

Little Tern - 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Wareham Forest

Common Tern - Brownsea Lagoon © Phil Bentley

Tuesday 27th May 2025

Common Scoter - 11 off Hengistbury Hd.

Storm Petrel - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Great White Egret - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB

Hobby - 1 in off sea Hengistbury Hd.

Little Ringed Plover - 2 on Stilt Pools Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sanderling - 19 Hengistbury Hd.

Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Gull - 2, 2cy Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 2cy Hengistbury Hd.

Monday 26th May 2025

Common Scoter - 14 East Hengistbury Hd.

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past west Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Forest

Osprey - 1 Poole Hbr.

Hobby - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 over Swineham GP.

Little Gull - 1 2cy off Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Holton Heath

Sunday 25th May 2025

Common Scoter - 32 Porland Bill, 14 Hengistbury Hd.

Manx Shearwater - c50 Christchurch & Poole bay

Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere Channel

Red Kite - 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel

Merlin 1 female pver Brownsea lagoon

Hobby - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wareham Forest

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill

Little Gull - 2 1st/sum Abbotsbury Swannery

Redstart - 1 fem Roebury Lane Christchurch.

Meadow Pipit - Morden Bog © Mark Taylor

Saturday 24th May 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 2 over Wick Fields
Sanderling - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Roseate Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 2 past Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 3 Peveril Point
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB, view from west end of Southdown Avenue
Red Kite - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Brownsea Lagoon

 

Hobby, Morden Bog © Robert Fielding

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell

 

 

Great Spotted Woodpecker,West Moors © Roy Nicklin
 

Friday 23rd May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Arne RSPB
Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Little Gull - 2 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Hobby - 1 Morden Bog

Thursday 22nd May 2025

Sanderling - 2 Littlesea (The Fleet)
Whimbrel - 3 Littlesea (The Fleet), 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1cy over R.Avon at Coward's Marsh
White Stork - 1 SW over Piddle Valley near Trigon this afternoon
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool this morning
Montagu's Harrier -  1 female NW over Morden village this afternoon
Black Kite - 1 west over Clifton Maybank around midday
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 over Turbary Common
Osprey - 1st egg hatched at Careys Secret Garden nest site
Bee-eater - 1 Durlston CP at Castle and Gully area but mobile
Wryneck - 1 Morden Bog singing and seen between Decoy Pond and old cottage this morning

Hobby - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

 

Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp

Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp

Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp

 

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Knot - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Sanderling - 11 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Great White Egret - 1 mouth of R. Piddle
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB this morning

Hobby - 4 Morden Bog

 

Little Gull, Lodmoor RSPB © Garry Hayman

Common Tern, Lodmoor RSPB © Garry Hayman

 

Tuesday 20th May 2025

Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor

Black-tailed Godwit - c.200 Brownsea Lagoon

Knot - 1 Lodmoor

Little Gull - 1st summer off Brownsea Island

Glossy Ibis - still on Postbox pool Lodmoor

 Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor

Red Kite - c. 9 Bridport area, 2 over Poole Harbour

White-tailed Eagle -  3-4 Poole Harbour

Yesterday:

2 Black Tern off Hengistbury Head

Glossy Ibis, Lodmoor © Helen Wood

Monday 19th May 2025

Little Gull - 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery and Sandbanks

Arctic Skua - 1 off St Aldhelm's Head

 Glossy Ibis - 1 still present at Lodmoor behind post box pool

Spoonbill - 1 flew west over the Fleet

Osprey - 1 from Abbotsbury Beach

White-tailed Eagle - G466 over Shipstal Point, G463 over Corfe Castle

Little Owl - 1 Marnhull

Hoopoe - 1 in a garden at Walsingham Dene, Littledown

Hobby - 4 Poole Harbour area

Sunday 18th May 2025

 Avocet - 2 Lodmoor

Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor

Whimbrel - 3 The Fleet, 4 Brands Bay, 4 Stanpit

Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor north end

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 over Moordown

Hobby - 1 over Rempstone

Nightingale - probable heard briefly at Cogden

Yellowhammer, Hardy's Monument  © Helen Wood

Great Northern Diver, West Bexington,  © Mike Morse

Spotted Flycatcher, St Aldhelm's Head © Peter Moore

Avocet Lodmoor © Mary Stevens

Corn Bunting, St Aldhelm © Purbeck Pilgrim 

Saturday 17th May 2025

 Whimbrel - 19 Kimmeridge Beach, 5 Christchurch Harbour

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Little Gull - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery

Glossy Ibis -- 1 Post Box Pool Lodmoor

Night Heron - 1 reported on Bridehead Lake Littlebredy

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Honey Buzzard - 1 in off Chesil over Tidmoor

Hooded Crow - 1 Wallsend Portland

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Kimmeridge

Stonechat , Swyre  © Helen Wood

Spotted Flycatcher Reap Lane Portland  © Mary Stevens

Rock Pipit, Portland Bill  © Mary Stevens

Reed Bunting, Swyre  © Helen Wood

Friday 16th May 2025

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit.
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Weymouth.
Red Kite - 3 West Bay.
Hobby - 1 Corfe Mullen.

White-tailed Eagle, Weymouth © Paul Harris

Thursday 15th May 2025

Nightjar - 1 Hartland Moor
Cuckoo - 2  Hartland Moor

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Swineham
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Creek
Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Creek
Caspian Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 2 Brownsea Island, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 1 Giggers Island
White-tailed Eagle - 1 West Bay
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Portland Bill and Portland Heights this afternoon
Red Kite - 27 over Bridport heading W/NW, 4 over Poole Harbour, 3 West Bay, 1 over Corfe Mullen
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 over Weymouth

Shelduck, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Wednesday 14th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Coombe Heath.
Grey Plover - 2 Swineham.
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit, 1 Coombe Heath.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Little Gull - 1 Stanpit.
White Stork - 1 over Hengistbury Head.
Red Kite - 4 Bothenhampton, 4+ Dorchester (Purlands Farm), 3 Eype, 1 Coombe Heath, 

  1 Dudsbury, 1 West Bay.

Red-rumped Swallow - 1 Portland, quite mobile.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ Coombe Heath.
Firecrest - 1 Coombe Heath.

Grey Heron, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Whitethroat, Lynch Cove © Mary Stevens

Tuesday 13th May 2025

Cuckoo - 2+ Wareham Forest, 1 Arne, 1 nr Thorncombe Wood.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Swineham.
Black Tern - 2 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 1 southern Portland.
Spoonbill - 3 off Arne.
Osprey - 1 Arne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Morden Bog, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Goshawk - 1 Arne.
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 Holmebridge, 1 Poundbury, 1 Wareham Common.
Hobby - 3 Wareham Forest, 1 Studland, 1 Woodsford.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ Morden Bog, 1 Thorncombe Wood.

Reed Warbler, Swineham © Garry Hayman

Sedge Warbler, Swineham © Garry Hayman

Redstart © Garry Hayman

Monday 12th May 2025

Garganey - 1 Stanpit.
Mandarin Duck - 2 Blandford.
Cuckoo - 1 nr Thorncombe Wood.
Sanderling - 15 Shell Bay.
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Lyme Regis (The Cobb).
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 1 Poole Harbour mouth.
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill.
Hobby - 1 Studland.
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Stanpit.

Late news: Osprey over Charmouth yesterday.

Whimbrel, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Sunday 11th May 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Woodsford

Cuckoo - 1 Wytch Farm Norden, 1 Woodsford

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stilt Pools Swineham

Manx Shearwater - 35 flew east past St Aldhelms Head

Spoonbill - 5 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 flew East West Bexington

Cattle Egret - 12 Bog Lane Stoborough

Great White Egret - 1 Bog Lane Stoborough

Osprey - 1 Middlebere female 3H9

Red Kite - 2 Blandford, 1 Poole Harbour

White tailed Eagle - 1 over Compton Abbas Airfield

Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Child Okeford

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wytch Farm Norden

Yesterday:

Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Black throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Brownsea Island 

Juv Stonechat - Tyneham © Mary Stevens

Saturday 10th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Woodsford, 1 Cowards Marsh, 1 Hurn

Grey Plover - 2 Hengisbury Head

Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holloway Dock Hengisbury Head

Purple Sandpiper - 9 The Cobb Lyme Regis

Common Sandpiper - 2 Hengisbury Head, 2 Longham Lakes

Cattle Egret - 1 Cowards Marsh

Great white Egret - 1 Cowards Marsh and flew north

Red Kite - 3 Bridport

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh on Gorse near pylon

Hobby -  1 Avon Valley

Song Thrush - 1 Lodmoor RSPB  ©  Mary Stevens

Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor  RSPB  ©  Mary Stevens

Friday 9th May 2025

Mandarin Duck  - 2 River Piddle Wareham Common

Cuckoo - 1 West Compton

Ringed Plover - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Little Gull - 3 West Bexington

Arctic Skua - 2 Pale Morph past Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 1 Bridport flew north

Red Kite - 4 Bradbury Rings, 2 Bridport

Short eared Owl - 1 Arne Moor viewed from Slepe Heath

Red footed Falcon - 1 female Cowards Marsh west of clockhouse Stream

Hobby - 2 Far end of wareham Common, 2 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh

Garden Warbler - 1 Bradbury Rings

Whitethroat - 30 Bradbury Rings

Thursday 8th May 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Woodsford

White Fronted Goose - 1 Wareham Channel off Swineham Point

Goosander - 1 River Piddle Carey

Grey Plover - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Ringed Plover - 22 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Ringed Plover 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Stilt Pools Swineham

Whimbrel - 42 through Stanpit Marsh but 12 settled, 11 Holes Bay SW sector, 6 Brands Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Greenshank - 6 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Holes Bay by the stone bench

Little Gull - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengisbury Head

Red Kite - 1 over Brands Bay

Hobby - over Little Sea Studland

Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Mapperton Wildlands

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Yellow Wagtail - 4 Standpit Marsh

Pied Wagtail - Woodville ©  John Bishop

Wednesday 7th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 still Swineham Pt., then flew
Cuckoo - 1 Wick Fields
Crane - 2 flew south from Hurn
Grey Plover - 2 still Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - c13 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Arne RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Purple Sandpiper - 13 still The Cobb, Lyme Regis
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour area
Red Kite - 4 Sixpenny Handley, 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Bridport, 1 East Stoke
White-tailed Eagle - 1 from Swineham Point
Hobby - 4 north end Radipole RSPB, 3 Swineham Point, 1 Holton Lee, 1 Bridport
Wood Warbler - 1 Badbury Rings
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 1 Stunted Oaks, 1 North Scrubs, 1 Wick (all Stanpit atea) 1 Arne RSPB
Corn Bunting - 2 nr. The Chapel, St. Aldhem's Head

Swallow, Charmouth © Pam Parsons

Great Crested Grebe, Creekmoor Ponds © Allan Hansford

Hobby, Lodmoor RSPB © Mary Stevens

 

Tuesday 6th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 Swineham Point
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 15 Brands Bay, 10 Holes Bay, 7 Ferrybridge, 5 Stanpit Marsh
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Houseboats, Studland
Little Gull - 1 1st summer, Houseboats, Studland
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 nth over South Haven
Hobby - 6 Radipole RSPB, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Poole Harbour Entrance
Wheatear - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Ferrybridge
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit Marsh

 

Corn Bunting, Osmington White Horse © Pen Mitchell

Dartford Warbler, Morden Bog © Sue Ketteridge

Kestrel, Southbourne © William Hicks

Monday 5th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 Swineham GPs
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Castle
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red kite - 4 West Bay
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Marsh Tit - 1 Kilwood DWT
House Martin - 50 in flock, east of Lower Bockhampton

Great White Egret & Cattle Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Linnet, nr. Martin Down © Tim Balmer

Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale