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

Saturday 3rd october 2026

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