Monday 21st July 2025
Sunday 20th July 2025
Saturday 19th July 2024
Friday 18th July 2025
Thursday 17th July 2025
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Grasshopper Warbler - Lower Piddle Valley © Ed Betteridge |
Wednesday 16th July 2025
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Wren - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury |
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Jay - West Moors © Roy Nicklin |
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Swallow - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury |
Tuesday 15th July 2025
Monday 14th July 2025
Sunday 13th July 2025
Quail - 2 Sth & W of St. Aldhelm's Car Park
Garganey - 1 still Radipole RSPB, viwed from platform nr. Tennis Courts
Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew - 18 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Gull - 3 1sr summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Meditteranean Gull - 150+ Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Marsh Tit - family at Garston Wood
Sand Martin - 114 through Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler - 1 Holton Heath
Crossbill - 4 over Christchurch Harbour, 3 east past Holton Heath
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Comon Tern, Brownsea Island © Lesley Colquhuon-Graham |
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Bearded Reedling, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton |
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Kingfisher, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton |
Saturday 12th July 2025
Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 9 Seymers Marsh, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 6 Middlebere
Little Gull - 1 2cy Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Morden Bog Lake
Cattle Egret - 1 sth over Wick
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1ad 1juv Morden Bog lake
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Thorncombe Wood
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Cattle Egrets, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman |
Friday 11th July 2025
Bar-headed Goose - 1 still Shipstal, probable escape
Oystercatcher - 137 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-tailed Godwit - 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 2 Wareham Forest
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Crouch Hill
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Brownsea Island
Crossbill - several small flocks Wareham Common & Carey's
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Grey Wagtail, Maiden Newton © Phil Cheeseman |
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Hobby, Iwerne Minster © Robbie McBride |
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Linnet, Corfe Mullen © Martin Shaw |
Thursday 10th July 2025
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point, 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 40 + Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lytchett Fields
Little Gull - 1 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 9 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sand Martin - 450 south from Portland Bill
Swallow - 100 south from Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common
Serin - 1 north over Portland Bird Obs.
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Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Hansford |
Wednesday 9th July 2025
Avocet - 6 Brownsea lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 2cy 1 Stanpit marsh
Storm Petrel - 7 trapped & ringed Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Purple Heron - 1 possible over Verne Common
Hobby - 1 from Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arboretum, Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Carey's Secret Garden
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Nuthatch, Poole © Tony Furnell |
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Mute Swan, River Stour, Blandford © Tracy Hart |
Tuesday 8th July 2025
Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Portland Bill.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Holes Bay.
Kittiwake - 140 past Portland Bill
Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 80 Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Wareham Channel.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit.
Monday 7th July 2025
Avocet - 3 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 13 Stanpit, 10 past Portland Bill, 5+ Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Bay, 4 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - a few past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick meadows.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Crossbill - 1 Portland (Culverwell).
Sunday 6th July 2025
Arctic Skua - 5 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 14 past Portland Bill.
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill.
Red Kite - 1 Charlton Marshall, 1 Garston Wood.
Hobby - 1 Iwerne Minster.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Garston Wood.
Marsh Tit - 1 Garston Wood.
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Curlew, Stanpit © Clinton Whale |
Saturday 5th July 2025
Little Ringed Plover - 2+ Swineham, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 2 Stanpit, 2 Swineham, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham.
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit.
Friday 4th July 2025
Common Sandpiper - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Arne RSPB
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
White Stork - 1 west along Piddle Valley this morning
Spoonbill - 4 still on Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2+ Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Wick
Red Kite - 1 Carey Estate
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Lapwing, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale |
Jay, West Moors © Roy Nicklin |
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Bar-headed Goose - 1 still at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Nightjar - 1 Warren Hill, Hengistbury Head churring around midday
Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 4 Wick
Osprey - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 2 over Woolsbarrow Hill Fort
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 at Swanage allotments
Firecrest - 1 Leeson Wood near Swanage
Crossbill - 2 Wareham Forest (east of Stroud Bridge CP)
Yesterday : 3 Balearic Shearwaters past Portland Bill
Wednesday 2nd July 2025
Quail - 1 singing west of car park at Cogden Beach
Cuckoo - 1 heard last night on Stoborough Heath
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 still from Rock Lea Viewpoint at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 adult at Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pools
Spoonbill - 4 still at Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne RSPB at Coombe Heath
Red Kite - 4 Bridport, 1 Toller Porcorum
Hobby - 1 Arne RSPB at Coombe Heath
Crossbill - 4 flew west over hillside behind Abbotsbury beach
Tuesday 1st July 2025
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Silverlake
Greenshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 2 still from Rock Lea Viewpoint at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 still at Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel