Dorset Birds: 2026

Tuesday 6th October 2026

Goosander - 12 Silverlake

Dotterel - 1 heard over Anvil pt Durlston CP

Knot - 26 Middlebere

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere

Yellow legged Gull - 1 adult Middlebere

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh

Spoonbill - 3 Holes Bay, 1 Middlebere

Yesterday: 1 Barred Warbler at Portland Bill

Chiffchaff - North Dorset © Tim Balmer

Kingfisher - Blandford Forum © Tim Balmer

Starling - Poole Park © Tim Balmer

Monday 5th October 2026

Goosander - 5 Redheads at Woodsford

Grey Plover - 4 Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Purple Sandpiper - Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh

Spoonbill - 68 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 20 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 3 Holes Bay

Great White Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Goshawk - 1 Lytchett Fields

Red Kite - 2 Maiden Castle

White tailed Eagle - 3 Great Ovens Wareham Forest, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Merlin - 2 Eggardon Hill, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Hobby - 3 Radipole Weymouth, 1 Newton Heath Studland

Yellow-browed Warbler - 4 Portland Bill trapped and ringed (3 at the Obs & 1 Culverwell)

Chiffchaff (Siberian) - 1 Trapped & ringed Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Trapped & ringed Portland Obs

Grasshopper Warbler - Lytchett Bay RSPB

Little Bunting - 1 juv trapped & ringed Culverwell Portland Bill

Sunday 4th October 2026

Quail - Durlston CP

Pochard - 2 (1m +1f) Swineham GP

Ruff - 3 Arne Moor

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel

Little Stint - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Wytch Lake

Glossy Ibis - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Stanpit Marsh East Marsh.

Spoonbill - c100 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay

Great White Egret - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Arne Moor

Goshawk - 1 over Godlingston Cemetery

Red Kite - 1 Winfrith Heath, 1 Holt

White tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 high over Middlebere

Woodlark - 1 Middlebere track, 1 Stanpit Marsh crouch Hill

Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Castle

Redstart - 1 Swanage Prospect allotments

Yesterday: 1 Lapland Bunting at Hegisbury Head and flew south, also 1 Osprey

Barnacle Goose - 5 Silverlake
Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Glossy Ibis - 1 Keysworth ( no public access ), 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 9 Holes bay, 100 Brownsea Lagoon
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Thumb lane Portland
Olive-Backed Pipit - 1 reported at Culverwell Portland
Whinchat - Stour Valley Meadows

Friday 2nd October 2026

Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Golden Plover - 13 Field between Wynford Eagle and Eggarden Hill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 Rock Lea View Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Over A35 Winterborne Abbas
Hobby - 1 Arne
Woodlark - 3 Juvenile between Ower and Goathorn
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head Near the wooden bridge at Wick
Wheatear - 1 West Compton

Thursday 1st October 2026

Spotted Crake - 1 Postbox Pool Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Rock Lea View Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea lagoon
Razorbill - 1 Off Branksome Beach
Glossy Ibis - 1 East Marsh Stanpit
Spoonbill - 104 Brownsea Lagoon, 10 Shipstal Point, 2 Lytchett Bay
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head flew west
Wheatear - 1 West Bay Golf club., 1 St Aldhelms Head
Ortolan Bunting - 1 Flew over Carey ringing station

Wheatear St Aldhelms Head © Phil Bentley

Wednesday 30th September 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 east over Lewell this morning, 1 Swineham
Spotted Crake - 1 on Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB, but elusive
Ruff - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Sanderling - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Golden Plover - 17 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lytchett Fields on Sherford Pools
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 25 Brownsea Lagoon
Sooty Shearwater - 1 over Poole Bay,
Glossy Ibis - 3 Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Brownsea Island
Spoonbill - 101 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne Moors
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Merlin- 1 in off Poole Bay

Hobby, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Osprey, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Tuesday 29th September 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 Silverlake on East Lake, 1 Arne Moors
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Bight
Golden Plover - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Arne Moors
Little Tern - 1 Poole Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 2 west past Durlston CP this morning
Sooty Shearwater - 1 west past Durlston CP this morning
Glossy Ibis - 3 over Sandsfoot Caslle (Portland Harbour) towards Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 108 Brownsea Lagoon, 7 Arne RSPB, 2 Holes Bay
Great White Egret - 2 Arne Moors
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Wick this morning but not seen since
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Avalanche Road (Portland)
Meadow Pipit - 434 over Hengistbury Head, 350 over Portland Bill
Linnet - 490 over Portland Bill, 100 over Hengistbury Head

Monday 28th September 2026

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Glossy Ibis - 2 over Holes Bay this morning, 1 Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 93 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Barred Warbler - 1 retrapped at Portland Bill (ringed there on 26th Sept)
Grasshopper Warbler - 5 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head at eastern end
Firecrest - 9 Hengistbury Head

Sunday 27th September 2026

Pochard - 1 Stanpit (unusual in the CHOG area)
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 1 Poole Harbour
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 16 Middlebere
Bar-tailed Godwit - 9 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Gull - 1cy at Portland Bill near Culverwell
Glossy Ibis - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 60 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - c10 Wareham Common just downstream of Baggs Mill
Merlin - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 trapped & ringed and 1 retrapped at Carey Estate
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Stour Valley NR, at bottom of path from Redhill by fishing platform
Firecrest - 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate

Yellow-browed Warbler, Stour Valley NR © Tom Carley

Greenshank, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Saturday 26th September 2026

Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Poole Harbour.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Poole Harbour.

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.

Greenshank - 16 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Glossy Ibis - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Great White Egret - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 Wick.
Spoonbill - 94 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 2-5 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Rodden Hive.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour, 2 Stanpit.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Poole Harbour, 1-2 Christchurch Hbr.
Goshawk - 2 Poole Harbour.

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Brownsea Island.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Chiffchaff - 176 Piddle Valley RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Piddle Valley RS.
Barred Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.
Marsh Tit - 3+ Pamphill.
Serin - 1 Portland Bill.

Friday 25th September 2026

Goosander - 2 Poole Harbour (South Deep).
Little Stint - 1 possible Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Skua - 6 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 19 Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 93 Brownsea Island, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Osprey - 1-3 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Rodden Hive.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Rodden Hive, 2 Stanpit, 2 Wareham Channel/Middlebere.
Red Kite - 5 Wyke Down, 2 Rodden Hive.
Meadow Pipit - c80 Hengistbury Hd, flock c45 Wyke Down.
Water Pipit - 1 possible over Piddle Valley RS.
Red-throated Pipit - 1 briefly over Portland Bill.
Yellow Wagtail - 3+ Hartland Moor.
House Martin - sample count of 2000 W in 30 minutes over Hengistbury, 2000+ Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Chiffchaff - 51 Piddle Valley RS, c15 Hengistbury Hd.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Cirl Bunting - 2 Durlston CP.

Thursday 24th September 2026

Wigeon - 101 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake.
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge.
Knot - 7 Wareham Channel, 2 Ferrybridge.
Green Sandpiper - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Wareham Channel.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor.
Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel, 2 Radipole Lake, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor.

Cattle Egret - 4 S of Dewlish House.
Spoonbill - 76 Brownsea Island, 4 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 N over Sutton Poyntz.
Marsh Harrier - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor.
Hobby - 1 Arne (Hydes Heath).
Black Tern - 1 Poole Harbour.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Christchurch Hbr went up-valley.
Meadow Pipit - 57 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Hengistbury Hd RS, 1 Wareham Channel.
Redstart - 1 Coombe Heath, 1 West Compton.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Swyre.
Wheatear - 3 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Swyre.
Chiffchaff - 37 Hengistbury Hd RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd RS, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Swyre.
Firecrest - 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Linnet - 130+ Hengistbury Hd RS.

Lesser Whitethroat, Swyre © Helen Wood

Spoonbill, Lodmoor © Helen Wood

Yellow Wagtail, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Wednesday 23rd September 2026

Brent Goose - 1 The Fleet (off Butterstreet).
Garganey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Knot - 27 Holes Bay, 10 Middlebere.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay, 1 West Bay.
Greenshank - 6 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 1 The Fleet.
Dotterel - 1 recorded calling over Lytchett Matravers overnight.
Balearic Shearwater - 6 off Chesil Beach (Wyke Regis).
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 30 Wick Fields.
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 Canford Heath.
Meadow Pipit - c40 Christchurch Hbr.
Yellow Wagtail - 1+ Christchurch Hbr, 1+ Lodmoor.
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Stanpit.
Chiffchaff - 50 Piddle Valley RS.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Piddle Valley RS.
Whitethroat - 1 Maiden Castle.
Firecrest - 13 Christchurch Hbr.
Linnet - 82 Christchurch Hbr.

Tuesday 22nd September 2026

Avocet - c.200 Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - juvenile Stilt pools Swineham

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Black-tailed Godwit - 3 Lodmoor

Glossy Ibis - 4 Postbox Pool Lodmoor, 1 Barn Bight Hengistbury Head, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 45 Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 2 Wareham Channel

Grey Heron - 18 west over Hengistbury Head

Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - G466 in Wareham Channel

Firecrest - 1 in garden Manor Road East Cliff Bournemouth

Redstart - 1 Durlston CP

Whinchat - 1Durlston CP

Monday 21st September 2026

Goosander - 4 east lake Silverlake

Avocet - 4 Lodmoor, c.200 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank - 21 Brownsea Lagoon

Knot - 6 Brownsea Lagoon

Balearic Shearwater - 72 flew past West Bay Bridport

Spoonbill - 1 flew west at Stanpit marsh, 65 Brownsea Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 2 Radipole RSPB

Osprey - 2 -3 in Poole Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Brownsea Lagoon, 2 - 3 within Poole Harbour

Hobby - 1 over Poundbury

Sunday 20th September 2026

Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Christchurch Harbour

Grey Phalarope - still 2 Chesil Cove Portland

Wood Sandpiper - 1 seen from Poole Harbour boat tour

Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere

Knot - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 17 at Holme Lane

Red Kite - 1 Eggardon Hill

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Merlin - 1 flew low over beach huts Portland Bill

Hobby - 3 with 50+ Swallow and 50+ House Martin at Bere Marsh Farm Shillingstone

Dipper - 1 on River Wey at Nottington ( difficult location for viewing)

Meadow Pipit - movement of 596 during 3 hours over Hengistbury

Saturday 19th September 2026

Common Scoter - 5 past Portland Bill

Avocet - 270 Brownsea Island lagoon

Black-tailed Godwit - c.800 Holes Bay, 164 Brownsea Island lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon

Curlew - c.40 Holes Bay, 7 Brownsea Island lagoon

Grey Phalarope - 2 Chesil Cove, 2 eastern embayment Abbotsbury Swannery

Redshank - c.150 Holes Bay

Greenshank - 1 Holes Bay

Little Stint - 1 Ferryridge

Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head

Balearic Shearwater - 3 flew past Durlston CP

Spoonbill - 65 Brownsea Island lagoon

Red Kite - 4 above Stubhampton

White-tiled Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour

Hobby - 1 Lodmoor

Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston CP

Mistle Thrush - c.70 above Stubhampton, 39 Rempstone Forest

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT Bere Regis

Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP

White-tailed Eagle, Rempstone Forest © Gary Hayman

Woodlark, Rempstone Forest © Gary Hayman

Grey Phalarope, Chesil Cove © Steven Carey

Manx Shearwater, Chesil Cove © Steven Carey

Friday 18th September 2026

Goosander - 9 still at Brands Bay Studland

Golden Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Black tailed Godwit - 296 Middlebere, 149 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Knot - 30 Middlebere, 7 Stanpit Marsh

Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Arne moor seen from BOPH bird boat, 1 Middlebere

Grey Phalarope - 1 Chesil Cove

Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere

Greenshank - 10 Middlebere, 9 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Middlebere

Balearic Shearwater - 3 off West Bay

Glossy Ibis - 1 Keysworth shore Wareham Channel

Spoonbill - 61 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - 4 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour

White tailed Eagle - 1 over A345 Blandford Forum

Thursday 17th September 2026

Pintail - 9 Middlebere

Turtle Dove - 3 Tarrant Keyneston on pond at The Ferels

Knot - 17 Middlebere, 9 Stanpit Bight, 2 Portland Bill

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Frenches Field Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Little Stint - 1 Post Box Pool Lodmoor RSPB

Grey Phalarope - 1 north of Quiddles Chesil Cove

Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere, 2 Mother Sillers Channel Stanpit

Arctic Tern - 107 off Durlston CP

Arctic Skua - 3 off Durlston CP

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Durlston CP

Glossy Ibis - 3 Swineham Point

Spoonbill - 50+ Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Middlebere

Great White Egret - 3 Middlebere

Osprey - 1 over Bothenhampton Bridport, 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour

White tailed Eagle - 1 over Lodmoor RSPB

Wryneck - 1 King Barrow quarry Portland

Merlin - 1 Middlebere

Hobby - 1 Radipole, 1 Middlebere

Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 4 Tarrant Keyneston, 1 Stanpit

Yellow Wagtail - 35 Tarrant Keyneston

Yellow Wagtail - Portland Bill © Marcus Jones

Merlin - Middlebere © Garry Hayman

Knot - Portland Bill © Marcus Jones

Turnstone - Portland Bill © Marcus Jones

Wheatear - Portland Bill © Marcus Jones

Wednesday 16th September 2026

Goosander - 9 Brands Bay still

Avocet - 302 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 5 Lodmoor RSPB

Knot - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Sanderling - 8 South Haven Shell Beach

Spotted Redshank - 1 Mother Stillers Channel Stanpit Marsh

Glossy Ibis - 3 Wareham Channel

Spoonbill - 68 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Stilt Pool Swineham

Osprey - 3 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour,

Redstart - 1 Ferrybridge

Wheatear - 20 Hengisbury Head, 6 In fields above Portesham, 2 Peveril Point, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Yellow Wagtail - 11 Hengisbury Head, 11 Ballard Down, 6 Carey

Meadow Pipit - c1200 during vis- mig at Ballard Down, 513 during vis - mig at Hengisbury Head

Tuesday 15th September 2026

Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 3 Stanpit Bight, 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Spotted Redshank - 1 Mother Stillers Channel Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 62 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 8 Over Arne RSPB, 1 West scrape Lodmoor

Cattle Egret - 28 in field by Came House Dorchester west of A352, 9 Wareham Common

Osprey - 2 Saline lagoon Arne RSPB, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Red Kite - 2 Charborough Park

Hobby - 2 Middlebere

Restart - 1 female at Arne RSPB

Whinchat - Carey by the River Piddle

Monday 14th September 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 7 past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 3 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 54 Brownsea lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Middlebere / Arne RSPB

Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Upton CP,

Merlin - 1 Silverlake flew west.

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay

Long-tailed Skua - 1 juv. drifting east on sea West Bexington

Turtle Dove - 1 Hengistbury Hd flew towards Wick

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Lower Piddle Valley

Sunday 13th September 2026

Cattle Egret - 30 East Holme

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 54 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red Kite - 3 Shillingston

Osprey - 2 Newton Bay, 1 Wareham Channel.

Hobby - 1 over Lower Frome Meadows.

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 8 Arne Moors

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Greenshank - 5 Arne Moors, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - West Bay

Caspian Gull - 1 1st/w Portland Bill (at Culverwell), 1 West Bay

Swift - 2 Lodmoor

Swallow - 50+ Shillingston

House Martin - 30+ Shillingston

Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill (Obs Quarry)

Hirundines - 1000+ many Swallow (House & Sand Martin)

Yellow Wagtail - 50 sev groups pos. 100+ Lodmoor RSPB

Whinchat - 1 Arne Moors.

Chiffchaff - 32 Wick

Linnet - 60 Stanpit Marsh

Saturday 12th September 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill

Grey Heron - 40 west Hengistbury Hd.

White Stork - 1 Lyme Regis (on chimney by seafront)

Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh

White-tailed Eagle - 1 sub/ad Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Middlebere Ch,

Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 2 Portland Bill

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill

Yellow Wagtail - 10+ Hengistbury Hd, 1 Lodmoor RSPB.

Redstart - 2 Sugar Hill, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Whinchat - 1 Sugar Hill

Wheatear - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Sugar Hill Wareham Forest, 1 Lodmoor RSPB,

Pied Flycatcher - Sugar Hill Wareham Forest © Paul Kirby

Friday 11th September 2026

Spoonbill - 35 Brownsea Is, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Hbr.

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Little Stint - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Arctic Skua - 1 west Hengistbury Hd.

Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill Obs (trapped & ringed)

Tree Pipit - 2 Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Cattistock

Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Wyke Down, 1 Maiden Castle

Wheatear - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Portesham. 2 Maiden Castle

Chiffchaff - 31 Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Maiden Castle

Northern Wheatear - Maiden Castle © Colin Chainey

Thursday 10th September 2026

Glossy Ibis - 1 Keysworth Shore Poole Harbour seen from BoPH bird boat
Spoonbill - 47 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Frenches Pool Lytchett Fields
Honey Buzzard - 1 Flew West over Christchurch Harbour
Wryneck - 1 Obs Quarry Portland
Rose Coloured Starling - 1 Juvenile still Weston Street
Wheatear - 3 Maiden Castle

Wednesday 9th September 2026

Goosander - 9 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett fields
Knot - 7 Lodmoor, 4 Brands Bay
Sanderling - 2 Shell Bay Studland
Glossy Ibis - 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile) Keysworth shoreline Poole Harbour seen from BoPH bird boat, 2
Postbox Pool Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 44 Brownsea Lagoon
Hobby - 1 Wareham Common
Whinchat - 3 Maiden castle, 3 Western end of Wareham Common
Wheatear - 3 Maiden Castle, 2 Wareham Common

Whimbrel Poole Harbour © Mark Wright

Tuesday 8th September 2026

Goosander - 9 Brands Bay
Curlew sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 1 Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 6 flew past the Bill Portland
Glossy Ibis - 7 Lodmoor, 1 Poole Harbour seen from the BoPH bird boat
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down
Rose Coloured Starling - 1 Juvenile seen in the pre roost Starling flock at St Georges Church Portland

Monday 7th September 2026

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere
White Stork - Affpuddle water meadows, Ringed bird possibly from South Coast release site
Glossy Ibis - 7 Lodmoor early morning, 7 Middlebere Channel (probable same flock)
Honey Buzzard - 1 Flew over Lytchett Bay towards Wareham Channel
Rosy starling - 1 Portland, still along Weston street but mobile
Blackcap - 7 St Aldhelms Head
Whitethroat - 13 St Aldhelms Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston
Redstart - 1 Female Hatch Pond, 3 St Aldhelms Head, 1 Hounstout S Coast Path, 4 Durlston
Whinchat - 3 St Aldhelms Head, 2 Hounstout
Wheatear - 1 St Aldhelms Head
Common Rosefinch - 1 trapped crown estate Portland

Sunday 6th September 2026

Bar-tailed Godwit - Holloway's Dock Christchurch

Black-tailed Godwit - c.200 Wareham channel

Greenshank - 14 Wareham channel

Knot 4 Wareham channel

Ruff - 1 Stanpit Creek

Sanderling - 7 Blackberry Point Christchurch

Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 7 Postbox pool Lodmoor, 1 Keysworth shoreline

Osprey - 10 active in Wareham channel

White-tailed Eagle - pair Christchurch (Blackberry Point}, pair Wareham channel

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Rose-coloured Starling - juvenile still around Hayland/Pound piece area Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 at the 'hump' Avalanche Road Portland

Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Barn Field Christchurch

Whinchat - 1 Barn field Christchurch, 2 Wareham common

Wheatear - 3 Maiden Castle, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Durlston CP, 2 Barn Field Christchurch, 1 Wareham common

Glossy Ibis, Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman

Saturday 5th September 2026

Black-tailed Godwit - 572 Holes Bay, 17 Stanpit Bight

Redshank - 270 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 2 from Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Bight

Knot - 6 Holes Bay, 2 Stanpit Bight

Balearic Shearwater - 6 flew east past Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 2 Keysworth shore Swineham Point

Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Holes Bay

Honey Buzzard - 1 pale-morph juvenile over Pier Bottom St Aldhelm's Head

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Godlingstone Heath

Wryneck - 1 still in Portland Bird Observatory Quarry

Merlin - 1 Sweethill Farm Portland

Hobby - 1 Godlingstone Heath

Rose-coloured Starling - juvenile still in Portland Bill area

Whinchat - 4 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 2 Hengistbury Head

Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 3 south of Portland Bill campsite, 1 Godlingstone Heath, 1 Worth Matravers

Ortolan Bunting - 1 Pier Bottom area St Aldhelm's Head

Friday 4th September 2026

Oyster Catcher - 106 Brownsea

Avocet - 100 Brownsea, 53 Wareham Chanel

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea

Spotted Redshank - 2 Wareham Channel

Greenshank - 7 Brownsea

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, 2 Brownsea

Little Stint - 1 Brownsea

Sabine's Gull - juvenile in Christchurch Bay

Spoonbill - 31 Brownsea, 18 Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - 3 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 6 from Osprey Cruises Poole Harbour

Wryneck - 1 still in Portland Observatory quarry

Rose-coloured Starling - 1 St Georges area of Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 3 Arne

Redstart - 2 Arne

Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP

Yellow Wagtail - c24 Lodmoor

Thursday 3rd September 2026

Swift - 2 over Swineham

Avocet - c50 Wareham channel

Black-tailed Godwit - 9 Christchurch Harbour

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Knot - 19 Wareham channel

Little Gull - 1 west scrape Lodmoor

Glossy Ibis - 2 from Swineham Point

Spoonbill - 18 Wareham channel

Great White Egret - 3 Wareham channel

Osprey - 3 Christchurch Harbour

Marsh Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham channel

Wryneck - 1 still in Portland Bird Observatory quarry (1 on Monday at Hardown Hill Morcombelake}

Pied Flycatcher - 1 west end of Wareham Common

Whinchat - 3 along the River Piddle opposite Carey House estate

Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle

Spotted Flycatcher, Wareham Common © Trevor Warrick

Pied Flycatcher, Wareham Common © Trevor Warrick

Wednesday 2nd September 2026

Common Scoter - 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Mandarin - 1 Bardolf Fm.
Swift - 6 Wallisdown (Francis Avenue).

Green Sandpiper - 2 Chard GP (private site).
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Kittiwake - 1 through Christchurch Hbr.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill.
White Stork - 1 Wareham.
Glossy Ibis - 2 Swineham.
Great White Egret - 1 Poole Hbr.
Bittern - 1 Swineham.
Spoonbill - 21 Poole Hbr.
Osprey - 4-8 Wareham Channel, 3-4 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Poole Hbr.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Channel.
Wryneck - 1 Portland Observatory quarry.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Wick, several Charmouth.
Whinchat - 2 Bardolf Fm.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Bardolf Fm.
Grasshopper Warbler - 9 Charmouth.
Firecrest - 1 Charmouth.
Rosy Starling - 1 Portland Bill car park.

Non-bird news: 2 Northern Bottle-nosed Whales off Portland Bill.

Tuesday 1st September 2026

Swift - 10 Wallisdown (Francis Avenue).

Nightjar - 1 Lower Piddle Valley RS.
Knot - 3 Ferrybridge, 2 Brownsea Is, 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Is, 7 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brands Bay.
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Is, 1 Ferrybridge.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Is.
Whimbrel - 7 Lytchett Bay, 3 Stanpit, 1 Brands Bay.
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel.
Spoonbill - 18 Brownsea Is.
Osprey - 5+ Poole Barbour basin, 4-6 Christchurch Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne, 1 Martinstown.
Red Kite - 4 Gussage Down.
Yellow Wagtail - 38 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Studland.
Redstart - 2 Durlston CP, 2+ Arne, 1 Studland (South Haven).
Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 3 Lytchett Fields, 1 Portesham (Corton Hill),

1 Studland (Shell Bay).
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Arne.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Arne, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit, 1 Studland.
Grasshopper Warbler - 33 Lower Piddle Valley RS, 6 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Willow Warbler - 1 yellow-headed bird at Portland Obs.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP.

Late news: 19 Red Kite, 25 Spotted Flycatcher & 13 Marsh Tit in the Ashmore area yesterday.

Monday 31st August 2026

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay.
Knot - 5 Holes Bay, 2 Brands Bay, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Greenshank - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Holes Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay, 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit, 1 Brands Bay.
Grey Phalarope - 1 Stanpit, but elusive.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - c30 Stoborough causeway, 11 nr Lower Bockhampton, 10 Holmebridge,

5 Swineham.
Osprey - 4+ Christchurch Hbr, 4 Middlebere, 4 Swineham, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brands Bay,

1 Holes Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Holmebridge, 1 Poole Harbour.

Marsh Harrier - 2 Lytchett Fields.

Hen Harrier - 1 male reported Arne.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay.

Hobby - 1 Holmebridge.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lodmoor.
Redstart - 3+ Arne, 1 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle, 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit, 1 Wareham Forest (Black Heath).
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Arne, 1 Middlebere.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ Arne.
Wheatear - 5 Maiden Castle, 2 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Ferrybridge.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury.

Sunday 30th August 2026

Knot - 24 Ferrybridge, 10 Christchurch Hbr, 6 Brownsea Is.
Greenshank - 2+ Lodmoor, 1 Arne Moors, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Sanderling - 6 Ferrybridge, 4 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Is.
Little Stint - 1 Studland (off Gravel Point).
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Grey Phalarope - 1 Lodmoor till noon.
Arctic Tern - 2 past Hengistbury.
Black Tern - 7 past Hengistbury.
Kittiwake - 1 Brand's Bay.
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Franklin's Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay sandspit.
Glossy Ibis - 2 Wareham Channel.
Great White Egret - 2+ Lodmoor, 1 Wareham Channel.
Cattle Egret - 23 Stanpit, 1 Middlebere.
Spoonbill - 36 Brownsea Is.
Osprey - c5 Poole Hbr & Lytchett Bay, 3+ Christchurch Hbr.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Goshawk - 1 Carey's (Wareham).
Hobby - 1 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 4-5 Stanpit, 2+ Lodmoor.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Middlebere.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury.
Wheatear - 1 Arne Moors.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury.

Saturday 29th August 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 3 Mudeford Quay
Knot - c25 Brand's Bay, 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 over Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 5 juveniles on Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 7 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Roseate Tern - 1 off Jerry's Point with gull and tern flock
Cory's Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill this morning
Balearic Shearwater - 46 past Durlston CP, 1+ past Kimmeridge Bay
Cattle Egret - 7+ Portland Bill in Crown Estates Field

Friday 28th August 2026

Pintail - 3 Lytchett Fields, 2 Brand's Bay
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Grey Phalarope - 1 juvenile at Stanpit Bight (Christchurch Harbour) this evening
Sanderling - 3 Stanpit, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - c20 Lytchett Fields, 18 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 still at Stanpit Bight (Christchurch Harbour) but elusive
Caspian Gull - 1cy Abbotsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill (87+ yesterday)
Spoonbill - c20 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Swineham Point
Red Kite - 1 over Thorncombe Wood
Wryneck - 1 Portland in Obs Quarry and 1 also trapped & ringed in Crown Estates Field
Wood Warbler - 1 Charmouth briefly this morning
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields)
Pied Flycatcher - 10+ Charmouth this morning, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Studland village, 1 Brand's Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 30+ Christchurch Harbour, 10 over Greenland Farm, 1 Brand's Bay
Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields), 1 Canford School
Tree Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields (Approach Fields), 1 over Hengistbury
Siskin - 4 or 5 by Rushy Pond at Thorncombe Wood

Thursday 27th August 2026

Whimbrel - 1+ Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 7 Christchurch Harbour
Knot - 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 3 Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 3 over Hengistbury
Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Tern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 Stanpit Bight (Christchurch Harbour) this afternoon but not seen since 6pm
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 34 past Portland Bill this morning
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wryneck - 1 Obs Quarry on Portland
Wheatear - 3 Hartland Moor, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at Bardolf Farm, Puddletown
Spotted Flycatcher - 8+ Hartland Moor, 1 PC World Drain
Yellow Wagtail - 22 at Crouch Hill (Stanpit) this evening, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Wood
Whinchat - 1 Barn Field (Christchurch Harbour)
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP

Wednesday 26th August 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 6 off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 12 nr Abbotsbury Village

Great White Egret - 1 north Christchurch Hbr.

Glossy Ibis - 2 Wareham Channel

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 in off sea Christchurch Hbr.

Red Kite - 2 over Wareham Channel, 1 Hog Hill

White-tailed Eagle - 3 Wareham Channel

Goshawk - 1 Juv/Fem over Wareham Channel

Osprey - 10 - Wareham Channel, 1 Wareham Common, 1 over West Cliffs Portland, 1 Christchurch Hbr

Hobby - 1 over Wareham Common, 1 over Wareham Channel

Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Ruff - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Field, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1c/y

Caspian Gull - 1 juv Ferrybridge

Tree Pipit - 3 over Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 35 over Hengistbury Hd, 44 Stanpit Marsh

Nightingale - 1 Culverwell

Whinchat - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Wareham Common

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Double Dykes Hengistbury Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 10+ Wareham Common

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wareham Common, 1 Charmouth

Tuesday 25th August 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Charlton Marshall

Glossy Ibis - 1 Swineham Pt (seen from BirdBoat landed on Keysworth shore)

Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel

Red Kite - 4 Cranborne Chase, 1 Wareham Channel

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 5 Lytchett Bay a.m. 5 Middlebere p.m, 1 Portland Bill (flew out to sea)

Hobby - 1 Middlebere, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Wild Woodbury DWT.

Ruff - 3 Wareham Channel

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holloways Dock

Green Sandpiper - 2 Dodding's Lane Cress Beds, 1 Wareham Channel

Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere, 2 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 21 Lytchett Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juv. St Aldhelm's Hd.

Tree Pipit - 8 Wild Woodbury, 3 over Hengistbury Hd.

Yellow Wagtail - 40 St Aldhelm's Hd. 8 over Hengistbury Hd, 6 Ferrybridge

Whinchat - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Hengistbury Hd (Barn Field), 1 Hog Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Wheatear - 5 Maiden Castle, 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.

Monday 24th August 2026

Balearic Shearwater - 20 past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spoonbill - c29 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay

Marsh Harrier - 3 Poole Hbr (1 wing tagged bird from Suffolk)

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 3 Middlebere, 3 Lytchett Bay

Common Crane - 3 Knowlton (from Somerset project)

Hobby - 1 Middlebere

Ruff - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Snipe - 2 Holes Bay

Common Sandpiper - 2 Holloways Dock, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay/Fields

Greenshank - 24 Middlebere Channel, 17 Lytchett Bay, 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh.

Yellow-legged Gull - 7 various ages Portland Bill (Gull flock below Culverwell)

Yellow Wagtail - 20 over Hengustbury Hd, 4 Middlebere

Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere

Wheatear - 6 Hogg Hill, 4 Maiden Castle, 4 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Middlebere

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Sunday 23rd August 2026

Pintail - 1 Brand's Bay

Cattle Egret - 5 Cowerds Marsh, 3 Swineham Pt.

Great White Egret - 3 Poole Hbr.
White Stork - 1 Lodmoor RSPB (arrive from north flew off East)
Glossy Ibis - 1 over Radipole Lake RSPB.
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Is, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 3-4 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 10 Poole Harbour, 2 Holton Lee/Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne (6J8 Saline Lagoon), 1 Christchurch Hbr (1H1)
Ruff - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Whimbrel - 6 Hengistbury Hd.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Hatch Pond

Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Tree Pipit - 5, Hengistbury Hd, 2 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Durlston CP.

Yellow Wagtail - 60+ Swineham Pt, 40 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Eggardon Hill, 2 Durlston CP.

Nightingale - 1 Durlston CP.

Redstart - 5 Godlingston, 4 Durlston CP

Whinchat - 2 Hengistbury Hd (Barn Field), 1 Maiden Castle

Wheatear - 9 Wheatear Durlston CP, 5 Tarrant Rushton, 5 Coward's Marsh, 4 Eggardon Hill, 4 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Godlingston,
Grasshopper Warbler - 18 Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Garden Warbler - 2 Godlingston

Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston CP.

Whitethroat - 7 Maiden Castle, 2 Hatch Pond
Spotted Flycatcher - 12 Durlston CP, 6 Godlingston, 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Avon Causeway, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Thorncombe Wood
Cirl Bunting - 6 Cirl Bunting Durlston CP, 1 briefly Godlingston

Saturday 22nd August 2026

Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere
Ruff - 1 Brands Bay
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor
Kittiwake - 1 Juv Brands Bay
Glossy Ibis - 1 Flew towards Wareham Channel from Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 22 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 3 Middlebere
Willow Warbler - 15 Holton Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Maiden Castle, 8 Maiden Newton
Redstart - 1 Maiden Castle
Whinchat - 1 Hartland Moor
Wheatear - 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Coombe Bottom

Friday 21st August 2026

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Brands bay
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Brands bay
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 NE Holes bay near to Creekmoor Bridge
Ruff - 1 Brands Bay
Black Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea lagoon, 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Hatch Pond
Hobby - 1 Blackheath, 1 Throop Mill
Willow Warbler - 4 Blackheath Wareham Forest
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Lytchett Fields Approach Field
Redstart - 1 Blackheath, 1 Middlebere
Whinchat - 1 Blackheath
Wheatear - 1 Throop Mill
Yellow wagtail - 4 Middlebere, 4 Lodmoor, 10 Swineham

Thursday 20th August 2026

Mandarin Duck - 3 female on Causeway Pond Bardolf Farm
Black Tern - 1 South Marsh Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor West Scrape
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Red Kite - 1 Charlton Down
Spotted Flycatcher - 7 Bardolf farm

Wednesday 19th August 2026

Wood sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor on post box pools
Spotted Redshank - 1 Swineham Point
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor
Black Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery briefly over embayment; use Swannery car park (DT3 4JG), open 10:00-17:00 (£15 entry))

Tuesday 18th August 2026

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 5 Stanpit.
Little Stint - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Roseate Tern - 1 W through Christchurch Hbr.
Great White Egret - 2 Wareham Channel,
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Is., 1 Wareham Channel.
Osprey - 6-7 Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Goshawk - 1 Wareham Channel.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Piddle Valley RS.

Monday 17th August 2026

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Bardolf Fm.
Greenshank - 6 Brownsea Is, 3 Brands Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 4+ Lytchett Bay, 1 Brands Bay.
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Is.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne.
Osprey - 3+ Poole Hbr, 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Goshawk - 1 Arne.
Yellow Wagtail - 6+ Stanpit, 1+ Lodmoor.
Redstart - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Arne, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Bardolf Fm, 1 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 15 Piddle Valley RS.
Firecrest - 1 Piddle Valley RS.

Late news: White Stork over Arne yesterday.

Sunday 16th August 2026

Nightjar - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Swift - 1 Middlebere.
Great Crested Grebe - 50+ Longham Lakes.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Arne, 2 Lodmoor.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Greenshank - 23 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere.
Great White Egret - 3 Poole Hbr.
Cattle Egret - 31 Stoborough causeway.
Spoonbill - 23 Poole Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne.
Osprey - 5+ Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Poole Hbr, 1 between West Compton and Eggardon Hill.
Wryneck - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Yellow Wagtail - 20 Lodmoor, 7 Christchurch Hbr.
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Durlston CP, 1 Arne, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Arne.
Wheatear - 2 Durlston CP, 2 Peveril Point, 1 Lodmoor.
Grasshopper Warbler - 21 Piddle Valley RS, 5 Durlston CP.
Garden Warbler - 8 Durlston CP, 4 Piddle Valley RS, 1 Arne.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Saturday 15th August 2026

Nightjar - 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Knot - 2 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Poole Hbr, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Is, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Whimbrel - 2 Brownsea Is.
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Balearic Shearwater - 78 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 31 lower Frome Valley.
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Is.
Osprey - c5 Poole Hbr, 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Honey Buzzard - 1 Carey briefly (at the Osprey nest site).
Goshawk - 1 Arne.
Hobby - 1 Charmouth.
Yellow Wagtail - c12 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Godlingston Heath, 1 Greenlands Fm.
Redstart - 2 Greenlands Fm, 1 Charmouth, 1 Godlingston Heath, 1 Piddle Valley RS.
Whinchat - 1 Godlingston Heath, 1 Greenlands Fm.
Pied Flycatcher - 4 Portland Bill Obs.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Godlingston Heath.
Wheatear - 9 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Badbury Rings, 2 Godlingston Heath, 2 Greenlands Fm.
Grasshopper Warbler - 15 Piddle Valley RS, 1 Lytchett Bay RS.

Friday 14th August 2026

Whimbrel - 2 Blackberry Point (Christchurch Harbour)
Sanderling - 4 Blackberry Point (Christchurch Harbour)
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 3 Arne Moors RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 (juvenile + 2 adults) Lytchett Fields
Mediterranean Gull - 1,100 past Portland Bill early morning
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 5 Swineham
Great White Egret - 2 Swineham
Osprey - 10 to 12 estimated to be in the Poole Harbour area, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Marsh Harrier - 1 between West Compton and Eggardon Hill
Sedge Warbler - 128 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate, 56 trapped & ringed at Christchurch Harbour
Grasshopper Warbler - 10 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate, 1 trapped & ringed at Culverwell (Portland), 1 trapped & ringed at Christchurch Harbour
Willow Warbler - 50 trapped & ringed at PBO early morning, 24 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Garden Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Godlingston
Blackcap - 13 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Pied Flycatcher - 4 trapped & ringed at PBO early morning, 1 Thumb Lane (Portland), 1 Godlingston
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Redstart - 3 Godlingston, a male at Rushcombe Bottom NR
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle

Thursday 13th August 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Wareham Channel
Ruff - 1 Holes Bay near lookout
Whimbrel - 3 Holes Bay, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 6 Holes Bay, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay
Greenshank - 8 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 5 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 1 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 5 from BoPH Osprey Cruise, 1 Holes By this morning, 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Carey Estate
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Ham Common

Wednesday 12th August 2026

Ruff - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Sanderling - 6 Studland Beach

Common Sandpiper - 5 Holes Bay, 1 Peveril Pt

Green Sandpiper - 1 Sydling St Nicholas, 1 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 1 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 12 Middlebere, 10 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Spoonbill 27 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 20+ Stoborough Causeway

Osprey - 7 from BoPH Osprey Bird Boat, 3 Middlebere, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Sedge Warbler - 88 trapped & ringed at Christchurch Harbour

Garden Warbler - 1 Wick Christchurch Harbour

Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common

Tuesday 11th August 2026

Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit Bight, 4 Brands Bay

Knot 7 Stanpit Bight

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside Farm Scrape

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Fields

Great White Egret - 2 Heading North over Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 3 Middlebere Channel, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 over Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Nothe Forte, 1 over the Kimmeridge toll booth, 1 high over Hengisbury Head

Marsh Tit - 1 Carey Secret Garden

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 2 Bradbury Rings

Wheatear - 2 Bradbury rings, 2 Abbotsbury Beach

Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Kimmeridge toll booth, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Monday 10th August 2026

Common Scoter - 1 male Arne RSPB Saline Lagoon

Common Sandpiper 3 Lodmoor RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside Farm Scrape

Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 6 from Arne RSPB Coombe Heath VP

Cattle Egret - 37 Swineham

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 4 6 from Arne RSPB Coombe Heath VP, 1 Lytchett Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 6 from Arne RSPB Coombe Heath VP

Hobby - 1 River Frome West of Dorchester

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wimborne Town Centre, 1 River Frome West of Dorchester

Yellow Wagtail - 7 Swineham

Serin - 1 over the huts Portland Bill

Cirl Bunting 2 Studland Heath