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 September 20th 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

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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 Septemeber 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.