Tuesday 7th Apr 2026

Long-tailed Duck - 1 past West Bay.
Blue-winged Teal - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Swift - 1 Portland Bill.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Arne Moors RSPB.
Knot - 4 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Wareham Channel.
Sanderling - 1 Lytchett Bay is a rarity there.
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 past West Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Harbour entrance.
Black-throated Diver - 1 southern Poole Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 4 E past Hengistbury Hd, 2 past West Bay.
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Castle Point.
Common Tern - 4 Brownsea Island.
Arctic Tern - 5 past West Bay.
Forster's Tern - 1 Lytchett Bay, then Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 1 N over Bridport, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne.
Goshawk - 2 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 3 southern Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Holywell, 1 Parkstone, 1 Winfrith.
Honey Buzzard - 1 possible West Bay.
Hoopoe - 1 Portland (private garden).
Hobby - 1 Ridge (Sunnyside Farm).
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Studland (Greenlands Fm).
Common Redstart - 1 lower Piddle valley.
Sedge Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Osmington Mills.Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Hd.


Black-tailed Godwit, Hengistbury Hd © Clinton Whale