Thursday 2nd July 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wick
Red Kite - 2 near Bridport at midday, 1 over Bakers Arms
Hobby - 2 Carey Estate,  1 Middlebere
Crossbill - 2 over Carey Estate

Wednesday 1st July 2026

Avocet - a pair with 2 newly hatched young on Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper -  2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 still in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Island
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB (now confirmed as breeding here for the first time in Dorset since 1883)
Cattle Egret - 1+ Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate

Yesterday: 43 Balearic Shearwater off Portland Bill 

Tuesday 30th June 2026

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Arctic Skua - 2 over Chesil Beach near Rodden Hive
Spoonbill - 7 Arne RSPB at Shipstal Point 
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Poole Harbour
Crossbill - 2 over Hengistbury Head

Yesterday evening: 
Quail - 1 at Wimborne St Giles, 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Nightjar - 14 Puddletown Forest along Roman Road, 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield from fields near the Canadian Memorial Entrance

Monday 29th June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields in breeding plumage
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Cattle Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : 48 Balearic Shearwater past Portland Bill

Sunday 28th June 2026

Quail - 1 Singing East of Harfoot Lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Singing Cheselborne Waterside Farm, 1 possibly 2 singing Tarrant Rushton
Spotted Redshank - 1 Adult summer plumage Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford, 6 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 Off Chesil Beach viewed from Bridging Camp
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Off Portland Bill early morning
Spoonbill - 2 still Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 Woodsford
Hobby - 1 Woodsford
Serin - 1 Flew over Observatory garden Portland

Saturday 27th June 2026

Quail - 1 Calling East of Harfoot lane Melcombe Bingham, 1 Calling South of track at Wyke Down
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 10 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Summer plumaged adult Middlebere
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Middlebere
Honey Buzzard - 1 flew over Swannery car park
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere
Serin - male flew over Bird Observatory into beach hut fields

Spotted Redshank, Middlebere © Gary Hayman

Friday 26th June 2026

Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor

Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Balearic Shearwater - 8 Past Portland bill

Black Tern Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

Thursday 25th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Adult Swineham
Dipper - 2 on R Lim in Lyme Regis

Wednesday 24th June 2026

Little Tern-  5 on Blackberry Point in Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Channel
Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Dipper - 1 on R Lim in Lyme Regis
Serin - Male in PBO garden this morning 

Yesterday : 28 Balearic Shearwaters and a Whimbrel at Portland Bill

Tuesday 23rd June 2026

Common Scoter -1 off Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Quail - 1 singing at Waterside Farm, Cheselbourne
Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 at Wick
Hobby - 1 Upton CP

Monday 22nd June 2026

Common Sandpiper - 1 Parky Meade Rail Christchurch Harbour

Manx Shearwater - 5000+ mostly east off Portland Bill, 2000 + off West Bexington, 200 off Ferrybidge

Balearic Shearwater - 70  mostly going east off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 7 Wareham Common

Late News: Black Kite - 1 Blandford St Mary's on Friday 19th June

Starling - Bestwalls Meadows Swineham 
© GarryHayman

Sunday 21st June 2026

Quail - 1 possibly 2 at West Compton

Mandrain Duck - 13 over Shillingstone Recreation Ground

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Green Sandpiper - Wick Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 

Red Kite - 1 Over Bennetts Water Gardens, 1 over Coburg Rd Dorchester

Red backed Shrike - 1 female Swineham Gravel Pit initially seen from BoPH bird boat

Red backed Shrike - Swineham GP
© Trevor Warwick

Saturday 20th June 2026

Quail - 2 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 1 Cheselbourne

Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge 

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Bay and then at the back of Sherford Pools, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Hoopoe - 1 In private garden Swanage

Yesterday: 100 Manx Shearwater, 5 Balearic Shearwater and 2 Arctic Skua off Portland Bill

Nightjar - Tadnoll & Winfrith NR DWT
© Steve Carey

Friday 19th June 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton heard calling

Cuckoo - 1 Arne Moor

Whimbrel - 1 Fisherman's Bank Christchurch Harbour

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Swineham Point

Storm Petrel - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bill overnight

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Dorset side of River Avon  by the causeway

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Corfe Mullen

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Over Combe Heath seen from Middlebere NT Hide

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery in the afternoon

Thursday 18th June 2026

 Barnacle Goose - 3 Woodsford Castle

Quail - 1 heard Tarrant Rushton airfield

Black -tailed Godwit - 10 Christchurch Harbour

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 briefly Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour

Wednesday 17th June 2026

 Quail - 1 again at north west end of Tarrant Rushton airfield

Avocet - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 Shipstal Point RSPB Arne

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Marsh Harrier - 3 Swineham

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel and female G466 gave flight views to the Summer Safari Cruise

Tuesday 16th June 2026

 Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island

Common Sandpiper - 1 Sturminster Marshall Lake

Spoonbill - 2 still at Lodmoor, 1 Brownsea Island

Little Egret - 37 pre-roost Holes Bay area

Cattle Egret - 4 between Holmebridge and Wareham

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - 1 2nd cal Holmebridge

Monday 15th June 2026

Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 West Compton

Cuckoo - 1 Canford Heath

Avocet - 11 Brownsea Island Lagoon

 Balearic Shearwater - 3 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 3 Lodmmor, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Bittern - seen again at Lodmoor

Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields

Red Kite - 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield

White-tailed Eagle - 1 adult and 1 2nd cal year over Corfe and Middlebere

Sunday 14th June 2026

Quail - 1 West Compton, 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 1 Corfe Mullen, 1 over Dorchester bypass

Osprey - 2 at Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay

White Stork - 1 flying over Wimborne 

Bittern - Lodmoor RSPB © Steven Carey

Saturday 13th June 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 28 Portland Bill

European Storm Petrel - past Portland Bill

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 

Red Kite - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 2 over Lytchett Fields, 1, Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

Hobby - 1 Blacknor, Portland.

Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill

Blyth's Reed Warbler - 1Portland Bill (Probable trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field)

Serin - 1 Portland Bill

Common Tern - Brownsea Lagoon © Nick Hull

Friday 12th June 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 35 past Portland Bill

Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Fields

Hobby over Christchurch Hbr.

Arctic Skua - 1 from Medford Quay

Common Tern 3 Medford Quay

Sandwich Tern - 85 Mudeford Quay

Serin - Portland Bill flew over the Obs garden

Puffin - off Dancing Ledge © Nick Hull

Thursday 11th June 2026

Manx Shearwater - 69 off Durlston CP. 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Balearic Shearwater - 21 Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 1 off Durlston CP.

Kittiwake - 11 Durlston CP, 1 off Hengistbury Hd.

Little Tern - 1 off Hengistbury Hd.

Sandwich Tern - 53 Holloways Dock Christchurch Hbr.

Serin - 1 Portland Bill - 1 female Ops Garden

Gadwall - Brownsea Island © Nick Hull

Wednesday 10th June 2026

Spoonbill - 1 Flew over Lytchett Bay
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
European Serin - 1 one flew over Portland Bird Observatory

Tuesday 9th June 2026

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. 
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Balearic Shearwater - 4 off Portland Bill from East
RED BACKED SHRIKE - 1 Male  east of farm at c 50.6938, -2.0376; use RSPB car park
European Serin - 1 Calling in flight near Portland Bill

Monday 8th June 2026

Red Breasted Merganser - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
PURPLE HERON - 1 Lodmoor. Seen and photographed early morning in flight around West end of Southdown Avenue

Bittern. Lodmoor © David Turner

Sunday 7th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor
Cuckoo - 3 Morden Bog
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Black Tern - 2 Through past Portland Bill early morning
Storm Petrol - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c400 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - c70 past Portland Bill from East
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog
Wheatear - 1 male Eggarden Hill

Marsh Tit Silverlake © Rich Stephenson

Bittern. Lodmoor © Phil Cheesman

Sand Martin. Silverlake © Rich Stephenson

Saturday 6th June 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 still at Wick
Sanderling - c6 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit, 2 Lodmoor beach
Whimbrel - 3 left Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
European Storm-petrel - 2 west past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP in full summer plumage
Little Tern-  5 Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 20 Portland Bill this morning, 18 Durlston CP this morning, 1 flew out of Poole Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1225 past Durlston CP, 54 Hengistbury Head, 7 Branksome Chine, 2 Mudeford Quay
Puffin - 1 past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Friday 5th June 2026

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 60+ off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - c600 off Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 west past Portland Bill 
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Nightjar - 1 flying along Middlebere track this morning
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wick by the Wooden Bridge
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Hambledon Hill

Thursday 4th June 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Wick
Turtle Dove - 1 still in PBO garden
Great Skua - 1 again off Hengistbury Head
European Storm-petrel - 3 off Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Hengistbury Head in full summer plumage
Little Tern- 1 Hengistbury Head
Roseate Tern - 1 past Durlston CP
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 off Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 9 Portland Bill, 2 Durlston CP
Manx Shearwater - 6 off Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Fields
Bee-eater - 5 heard over Southwell on Portland this morning, heading south
Hobby - 1 Shillingstone

Yesterday : 1 Sooty Shearwater past Portland Bill 

Wednesday 3rd June 2026

Cuckoo - 1 heard at Child Okeford
Turtle Dove - 1 still in PBO garden
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
European Storm-petrel - 4 off Hengistbury Head, 1+ from Mudeford Quay
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Branksome Chine in full summer plumage
Little Tern- 5+ Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 5+ Portland Bill, 1 past Mudeford Quay, 1 west past Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Hobby - 1 Hambledon Hill

Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill Obs.
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor.
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Tern - 4 Mudeford Quay, 1 past Portland Bill.
Common Tern - 6 Hengistbury Head.
Manx Shearwater - c1000 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel & Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Bee-eater - 5 over Portland Bill Obs.

Monday 1st June 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Little Tern - 1 W past Mudeford Quay.
Common Tern - 3 W past Mudeford Quay.
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island.
Bee-eater - 5-6 high over Portland.

Sunday 31st May 2026

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Roseate Tern - 2 Brownsea Island.
Quail - 2 calling N of Moor Crichel.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island, 2 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2-3 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Swineham.

Saturday 30th May 2026

Wigeon - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Holton Heath, 1 Wick.
Puffin - 3+ off Purbeck.
Great White Egret - 2 Arne Moors, 1 Silverlake.
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Night Heron - 1 Studland Little Sea. View from the Rees Cox hide, north of Knoll Beach.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 5+ Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 7 Studland, 1 Bridport.
Honey Buzzard - 1 north over Poole.
Hobby - 2 Morden Bog.

Friday 29th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Middlebere NT Hide

Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point

Caspian Gull - 1 Possible from Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay

Little Tern - 2 Wareham Channel

Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Storm Petrel - 2 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland

Balearic Shearwater - 1 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland, 1 East off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 4 Middlebere Channel, 2 in off the sea Kimmeridge

Red Kite - 9 over Poole Harbour entrance, 7 Spyway, 6 over Brownsea Laggon, 5 Kimmeridge Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge Bay

Melodious warbler - 1 trapped and ringed Cluverwell Portland

Marsh Tit - 1 Garston Wood

Tree Sparrow - 1 trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field Portland Bill Obs

Marsh Tit - Garston wood ©  Daniel Law

Thursday 28th May 2026

Mandarin Duck - River Allen Wimborne Minster

Cuckoo - 1 Morden BogWareham Forest  

Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Obs garden still

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields

Little Stint - 1 Flew past Portland Bill

Balearic shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill, 1 East past Chesil Beach seen from Camp rd

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Poole Canford Heath

Red Kite - 1 Ailwood Down

White tailed Eagle- 1 ailwood Down

Bee -eater - 1 Heard over Durlston CP

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wareham Forest Morden Bog

Dipper - 2 Beaminster

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh

Mandarin Duck - Wimborne Minster
© Peter Calladine

Wednesday 27th May 2026

Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill Obs garden

Red breasted Merganser - 1 male Brownsea island Lagoon DWT

Whimbrel  - 1 over a private garden towards Holes Bay 

Black Tern - 1 flew east past Portland Bill

Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour 2 yr male 5R0 and Scottish female 6J8

White tailed Eagle - male G625 at Blackberry Point Christchurch Harbour

Melodious Warbler - 1 possible male at Ferndown Common

Turtle Dove - Portland Bill Obs © Steve Carey

Tuesday 26th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Wick Christcurch Harbour
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Obs garden

Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 briefly at Stanpit Marsh

White Stork - 1 Low over Hammond / Okeford (New Cross Gate)

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Bee-eater - 18 over Rock Lea Viewpoint Lytchett Bay

Red footed Falcon - 1 Stanpit Marsh and flew up the valley

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Reed Warbler - Swineham  © Garry Hayman

Monday 25th May 2026

Hobby - Wareham Forest

Black Tern - 5 past Portland Bill

Bee-eater - 10 over Parkstone heading NW

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Dorchester by River Frome

Crossbill - 2 Wareham Forest

Spotted Flycatcher - Dorchester © Gillian Membury

Greylag Geese - Poole Park © Clinton Whale

Sunday 24th May 2026

Great White Egret - 2 Two Rivers Walk Wareham

Red Kite - 3 Holt Heath, 1 Corfe Mullen

Goshawk- 1 Holt Heath

Red-footed Falcon - 1 male Holt Heath a.m. 

Hobby - 1 Shillingstone

Cuckoo - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

 

Spotted Flycatcher - Holt Heath © Sam Caswell

Great White Egret - Wareham © Garry Hayman

Saturday 23rd May 2026

Barnacle Geese - 2 over Christchurch Hbr.

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Brand's Bay

Garganey - 1 Knighton Heath GP

Eider - 4 past Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill

Great Northern Diver - 3 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 350 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere

Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Hbr, 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Sanderling - 27 Ferrybridge

Pomarine Skua - 3 west off Durlston, 1 Portland Bill

Cuckoo - 5 Wareham Forest

Red-footed Falcon - 1 male Holt Heath

Hobby - 3 Wareham Forest, 1 over Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere

Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Portland Bill, 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Redstart - 1 Wareham Forest

Red-footed Falcon - Holt Heath with Emperor Moth © Aidan Brown

Redstart Wareham Forest © Garry Hayman

Friday 22nd May 2026

Mandarin - duck with 4 duckling River Allen Wimborne.

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret 2 Charminster Water Meadows

Glossy Ibis - 1 Lytchett Fields

Eurasian Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor RSPB

Woodcock - 1 West Moors, 1 Sugarhill

Red-footed Falcon - 1 male still on northside of Holt Heath. Please keep to main tracks and paths do not roam into the heathland and bogs)

Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay

Spotted Flycatcher - Bloxworth

 

Thursday 21st May 2026

 Cuckoo - 1 Frome Woodsford, 1 Lower Bockhampton, 1 Affpuddle Woods

Turtle Dove - 3 Top fields Portland Bill

Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour

Sanderling - 8 Portland Bill, 36 Christchurch Harbour

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge

Roseate Tern - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 1 flew over Arne RSPB

Great Northern Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Sooty Shearwater - 1 lingering off Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 2 Wareham channel

Red Kite - 1 Limekiln Farm Sherborne

Red-footed Falcon - male still north end of Holt Heath 

1 probable male flew north west over gully Durlston CP

Hobby - 1 Radipole, 1 Whitfield

Woodchat Shrike - 1 New Ground Portland

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Crouch Hill Christchurch

Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlson CP

Sedge Warbler, River Frome Dorchester © Alan Membury

Hobby, River Frome Dorchester ©  Alan Membury

Cirl Bunting Durlston CP  ©  Rebecca Porter

Wednesday 20th May 2026

 Mandarin - female with one duckling on the River Allen, Wimborne

Black Tern - 4 east Christchurch Harbour

Arctic Skua - 4 feeding, 3 flew east Christchurch Harbour

Great Skua - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Red-throated Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Great Northern Diver - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Chesil Beach, 1 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 briefly over Lodmoor, 5H6 visited Poole Harbour nest platform

Red-footed Falcon - 1 north end of Holt Heath NR

Hobby - 1east of Lower Bockhampton

Tuesday 19th May 2026

 Cuckoo - 1 Bardolf Farm

Avocet - 9 Brownsea Lagoon

Black Tern - 4 offshore at Hengistbury Head, 1 off Chesil Beach

Eastern Common Tern - possible again at Abbotsbury Swannery

Common Tern - 106 sitting Brownsea Island

Sandwich Tern - 81 sitting Brownsea Island

Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill, 2 past Mudeford Quay briefly this evening

Great Skua - 1 past Mudeford Quay

Desertas-type Petrel - 1 flew east past Portland Bill, mid distance

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Durlston

Osprey - 1 over Lodmoor

Hobby - 1 over Litton Cheney

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Bardolf Farm

Monday 18th May 2026

Eastern Common Tern - possible at south end of west scrape Lodmoor

Arctic Skua - 1 pale form over Mudeford Quay

Pomarine Skua - 1 offshore Hengistbury Head

Manx Shearwater - single close to Mudeford Quay 17:45

Honey Buzzard - 1 flew north across Poole Harbour

Red-footed Falcon - 1 over Holt Heath before flying north west

Yesterday: Quail singing St Aldhelm's Head

Grey Partridge, Dorchester  © Simon

Sunday 17th May 2026

Quail - 1 singing East of Winterborne Clenston
Cuckoo - 3 Blackheath Wareham Forest, 3 Lower Allen Valley
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 1 flew up the Piddle Valley early morning
Red Kite - 9 Lower Allen Valley

Spoonbill, Lodmoor © Steve Carey

Saturday 16th May 2026

Quail - 1 Calling sporadically early this morning, near St Aldhelms Head
Cuckoo - 1 Longham lakes
Arctic Skua - 1 East off Chesil Beach viewed from Camp Road
White Stork - 1 River Frome East of Wool
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Swineham
Whinchat - 1 Male by Bridging Camp Chickerall.

Cuckoo, Morden Bog © R. Stephenson

Friday 15th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Bonapartes Gull - 1 1st Summer bird Abbotsbury Swannery Embankment
Cattle Egret - 2 Flew down Lorton Valley
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Morden Bog

Cuckoo, Morden Bog © Phil Cheesman

Thursday 14th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Roseate Tern - 4 Brownsea Lagoon with 1 seen early evening fishing at the harbour entrance, South side.
Bonapartes Gull - 1 1st Summer bird Abbotsbury Swannery Embankment
White Stork - 1 Cowards Marsh
Cattle Egret - 4 Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Avon Heath Country Park
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog

Goldcrest © John Bishop

Wednesday 13th May 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 Mudeford/Hengistbury
Sanderling - 16 Mudeford/Hengistbury, 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Little Tern- 8 Hengistbury Head
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery on embayment this evening
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 14 past Hengistbury this morning, 118 Mudeford Quay this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wick

Marsh Harrier, Middlebere © Alan Membury

Lapwing, Middlebere © Alan Membury

Osprey, Middlebere © Alan Membury

 

Tuesday 12th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
Whimbrel - 2 Hengistbury
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Osprey -1 Christchurch Harbour
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - probable 1st summer female, trapped & ringed at PBO

Swallow, Studland © Clinton Whale

 

 

Monday 11th May 2026

Cuckoo -  1 Hyde Bog, 1 Longham Lakes
Whimbrel - 6 Frome Valley, 5 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay NW
Sanderling - 6 Knoll Beach (Studland), 3 Stanpit Marsh
White Stork - 1 over Wareham
Night-heron - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, flew NW towards Radipole this evening
Great White Egret - 1 Stoborough (Bog Lane)
Honey-buzzard - 1 east over Stanpit Marsh
Osprey 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Slepe Heath, 1 Longham Lakes
Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadows (Christchurch Harbour)

Yesterday : a Roseate Tern past Portland Bill 

Sanderling, Knoll Beach © Clinton Whale

 

Sunday 10th May 2026

Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy again at Lynch Cove (The Fleet)
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill is the first of the year
White Stork  - 1 south east over Shillingstone around midday, 1 Wareham, flew down the Piddle Valley.
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Swineham GPs this morning.
Red Kite - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 over Hengistbury Head

Sandwich Tern, off Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale

 

Saturday 9th May 2026

Garganey - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB from Buddleia Viewpoint, 1 drake at Silverlake
Cuckoo - 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Higher Hyde Heath DWT
Turtle Dove - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO this afternoon
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Mudeford Quay, 1 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay
Sanderling - 28 Mudeford Quay, 10 Ferrybridge
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Brownsea Island this afternoon
Manx Shearwater - 3 Mudeford Quay
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 1 flew east past Mudeford Quay
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Freshwater Bay on Portland this afternoon
Hen Harrier - a male over Hartland Moor
Red Kite - 1 Poole Harbour
Black Kite - a possible seen high over Southbourne
Hobby - 3 Hartland Moor, 2 Morden Bog
Hooded Crow - 1 St Aldhelm's Head 

Little Tern, Ferrybridge © Garry Hayman

 

Friday 8th May 2026

Common Scoter - 15 past Hengisbury Head

Cuckoo - 4 Hartland Moor, 1 Morden Bog

Little Ringed Plover - 1 The hump Lodmoor RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Stilt Pool

Red throated Diver - 2 West past Hengisbury Head

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Avon Valley

Bee-eater - 3 Southill Portland flew SE towards Radipole

Willow Warbler - 1 Studland

Sedge Warbler - Swineham © Garry Hayman 

Thursday 7th May 2026

Garganey  - 1 Over Christchurch Harbour

Red necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle

Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 6 past Hengisbury Head

Bar tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge

Little Gull - Coward's Marsh

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Christchurch Harbour

White tailed Eagle - 4 Kimmeridge, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Short eared Owl - 1 Crown Estate field Portland Bill

Hobby - 2 Piddle Valley, 1 Norden

Iberian Chiffchaff - 1 putative lighthouse gully Durlston CP

Whinchat - 1 Ferrybridge

Dipper - Kingcombe Meadows

Dartford Warbler - Ballard Down 
© Rebecca Porter

Meadow Pipit - Durlston CP © Brian Edge

Wednesday 6th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog

Turtle Dove - 1 Southwell Portland private garden still, 1 east of Tidmoor Stables The Fleet

Red necked Grebe - 1 North of Sandsfoot Castle

Bonapartes Gull - 1 Lynch Cove The Fleet

Great Northern Diver - 4 off Portland Bill

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Chrishchurch Harbour off Blackberry Point

Hobby - 1 over Radipole Lake, 1 Came Down

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 The Warren nr Durlston CP

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Fleetsbridge, 1 Tidmoor Point

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Watton Hill Bridport

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Long Field Christchurch Harbour

Turtle Dove - Tidmoor Stables
© Freddy Alway

Tuesday 5th May 2026

Barnacle Goose - 3 Woodsford Farm area

Turtle Dove -1 in a Private garden Southwell Portland

Golden Plover - 1 over Cordite Way viewpoint Holton Heath

Bar tailed Godwit - 7 Ferrybridge, 6 Stanpit Marsh

Bonapartes Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

White Stork - 2 Over Swanage and flew north over Goathorn

Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Cattle Egret - 5 Pallington Lakes, 4 Christchurch Harbour

Honey Buzzard - 1 Flew east from East Stoke

Red Kite - 35 over Ulwell, 15 over Wareham, 10 over Bridport, 2 over St Alhelms Head

Black Kite - 1 Probable over Seacombe seen from St Alhelms

Hoopoe - 1 heard on Middlebere Heath

Golden Oriole - 1 flew over Culverwell Portland

Marsh Tit - 2 Thorncombe Woods

IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF - 1 Probable at Durlston CP

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Frome water meadows off A351, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelms Head

Yellow Wagtail - 1 St Aldhelms Head, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Putative Iberian Chiffchaff © Hamish Murray

Cattle Egret - Pallington Lakes 
© Rebecca Porter

Linnet - Highcliffe © Clinton Whale

Monday 4th May 2026

Mandarin - 1 Blandford.
Cuckoo - 1 Portland, 1 Swineham, 1 Winterborne Stickland (Field Grove).
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland.
Grey Plover - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Arne Moors.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 1 Arne Moors.
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Tern - 1 Wareham Channel.
Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moors,1 Bestwall.
White Stork - 1 flew E from the lower Piddle valley.
Osprey - 1 arrived Christchurch Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 E over Christchurch Hbr.
Hobby - 5 Swineham & Wareham Channel.
Wood Warbler - 1 Hardy's Monument.
Iberian Chiffchaff - 1 possible Durlston CP.

Pheasant with chicks, Tolpuddle © Julian Francis

Sunday 3rd May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Swineham, 1 Wareham Channel.
Turtle Dove - 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Portland Bill.
Grey Plover - 4 Swineham & Wareham Channel.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 2 Brownsea Island.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 15 Christchurch Hbr.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Tern - 3 Wareham Channel.
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 2 Swineham, 1 Lodmoor.
White Stork - 1 flew N from the lower Piddle valley.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Channel.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.
Whinchat - 1+ Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1-2 Durlston CP.

Whitethroat, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale

Saturday 2nd May 2026

Cuckoo - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay.
Whimbrel - 6 Lytchett Bay.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 41 Christchurch Hbr.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Little Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Skua - 1 W past Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Hengistbury Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Great White Egret - 3 Bestwall, 1 E past Hengistbury Hd.
Night Heron - 1 Iford.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
White Stork - 1 Woodville.
Osprey - 2 Arne RSPB.
Hen Harrier - 1 male Town Common.
Hobby - 2 Arne, 1 Longham Lakes.
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Stanpit.
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Holton Heath.
Garden Warbler - 2 Stanpit, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Wild Woodbury.

White Stork, Woodville © John Bishop

White Stork and Red Kite, Woodville © John Bishop

Friday 1st May 2026

Garganey - 1 Longham Lakes.
Cuckoo - 1 Morden.
Grey Plover - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Bay, 2-3 Brownsea Island, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 18 past Portland Bill, 16 past Hengistbury Hd, 16 E past Durlston CP.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 100 Christchurch Hbr, 19 Brownsea Island.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere.
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Kittiwake - 285+ past Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Skua - 4 E past Mudeford Quay, 3 past Portland Bill.
Pomarine Skua - 2 E past Durlston CP, 1 E past Mudeford Quay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Red-throated Diver - 3 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 20 W past Mudeford Quay, 1 E past Durlston CP.
White Stork - 1 Charminster watermeadows.
Osprey - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Hobby - 1 Ballard Down, 1 Middlebere, 1 Morden, 1 Portland Bill.