Saturday 13th September 2025

Common Scoter - 2 off Hengistbury Head
Avocet - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-tailed Godwit - 199 Lytchett Bay
Knot - 6 Ferrybridge
Ruff - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 still Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 2 still Ferrybridge
Grey Phalarope - 1 still off Chesil Cove or further north
Spotted Redshank - 2 still from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Greenshank - 18 Lytchett Bay, 7 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Gull - 1 1st yr at Culverwell
Yellow-legged Gull - 3 at Culverwell
Sandwich Tern - 100 off Hengistbury Head, 75 through Christchurch Harbour
Common Tern - 56 Through Christchurch Harbour, 45 off Hengistbury Head
Arctic Skua - 1 pale morph off Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 6 sth of R.Frome, nr. Bog Lane, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 still Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 still Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Rodden Hive, 1 over Brownsea Lagoon. 1 nth from Christchurch Hbr, 1 Stanpit Marsh
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Hartland Moor
Kingfisher - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wryneck - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
House Martin - 350 through Christchurch Harbour
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Firecrest - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wick
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wick
Redstart - 1 Hartland Moor~
Whinchat - 1 Barn Field, Hengistbury
Wheatear - 7 Hartland Moor, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 17 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday:-

Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 Sadborrow, Thorncombe

Wryneck, Lodmoor RSPB © Kayleigh Freidl

Spoonbill, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

 

Kingfisher, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

Friday 12th September 2025

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brands Bay
Turnstone - 20 Stanpit Bight
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juv. Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 juv. Ferrybridge
Grey Phalarope - 1 Rodden Hive
Common Sandpiper - 2 Barn Bight
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 3 Brands Bay, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Sabine's Gull - 1 juv. off Chesil Cove
Caspian Gull - 2 on beach, Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 5 still west of A351, Wareham
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay, 1 off Goathorn
Honey Buzzard - 1 juv west over Wareham Common
Hoopoe - 2 probable Riversmeet, Stanpit Marsh
Kingfisher - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Wick
Firecrest - 1 Rodden Hive, 1 Hengistbury
Wheatear - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Meadow Pipit - 20 mainly Crouch Hill

Yesterday: - 

Osprey - 1 juv. Abbotsbury Swannery

Sabine's Gull juvenile, Chesil Cove © Phil Cheeseman

White-tailed Eagle, Arne RSPB © David Turner

Grey Phalarope, Rodden Hive © Paul Harris

Thursday 11th September 2025

Ruff - 2 The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Juv Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Juv Lytchett Fields, 1 Juv Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 2 Juv Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 3 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Caspian Gull - 1 1st-winter Ferrybridge, 1 Culverwell
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 4 west of A351, Wareham
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Kingfisher - 1 Middlebere
Wryneck - 1 Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 SE from Hardy's Monument
Hobby - 4 Middlebere inc 2 Juv
Dartford Warbler - c5 Highcliffe Clifftop
Firecrest - 2 in woods, Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 at Stunted Oaks, Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 at Stunted Oaks, Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 2 Crouch Hill
Dipper - 1 still Kingston Maurward

Yesterday:-

Balearic Shearwater - 101 past Portland Bill

Stonechat, Highcliffe © Clinton Whale

Ruff, Lodmoor RSPB ©

Dartford Warbler, Arne RSPB © Mazz Blehs

 

Wednesday 10th September 2025

Nightjar - 1 trapped & ringed Carey Estate
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 on grassland this morning at West Bay but flushed by dog
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -15 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 10 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Stint - 2 Ferrybridge, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Sabine's Gull - 1 juvenile flew west past Portland Bill
Caspian Gull - 1st winter at Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 4 again this afternoon in Frome Valley near Wareham by-pass
Spoonbill -  66 Brownsea Island
Osprey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Sturminster Marshall, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Poole Park
Woodlark - 9+ Pentridge Down
House Martin - 200 Pentridge Down
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped & ringed Carey Estate (plus 2 retraps), 1 Pentridge Down, 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Firecrest - 1 Pentridge Down, 1 trapped & ringed Carey Estate
Redstart - 1 Pentridge Down
Whinchat - 1 Pentridge Down
Corn Bunting - 10 Pentridge Down

Grasshopper Warbler, Pentridge Down © Tom Coldwell

Water Rail, Stanpit Marsh © Robert Fielding

Osprey, Stanpit Marsh © Robert Fielding

Tuesday 9th September 2025

Nightjar - 2 Piddle Valley.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wild Woodbury (Dodding's Farm).
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Balearic Shearwater - 25+ off Cogden beach.
Glossy Ibis - 5 Lytchett Fields and Wareham bypass.
Cattle Egret - 26 Frome valley.
Sabine's Gull - 1 West Bay.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Houns-tout.
Hobby - 1 west of Dorchester.
Common Redstart - 1 Piddle Valley.
Whinchat - 6 Wild Woodbury, 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Wild Woodbury, 1 Maiden Castle.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wild Woodbury, 1 Maiden Castle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 7 Piddle Valley, 4 Durlston CP, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Garden Warbler - 2 Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 3 Durlston CP, 1 Wild Woodbury.
Crossbill - 2 Culpeper's Dish.

Monday 8th September 2025

Ruff - 2+ Lodmoor.
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge.
Green Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit, 1 Valley of the Stones NNR.
Curlew Sandpiper - 6 Brands Bay, 2 Brownsea Island, 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit.
Glossy Ibis - 5 E over Lodmoor, 5 Lytchett Fields, 2 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 55 Brownsea Island.
Great White Egret - 1+ Lodmoor, 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 26 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Holme Bridge, 4 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Causeway, 

            1 Lytchett Fields.
Sabine's Gull - 1 West Bay.
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere, 1 Verne Common.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Portland Bill.
Wryneck - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Culverwell.
Hobby - 1 Litton Cheney, 1 Lorton meadows.
Yellow Wagtail - 9 Swineham.
Common Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.
Whinchat - 2Swineham, 1 Maiden Castle.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Stanpit.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP.
BOOTED WARBLER - 1 ringed and released, Portland Bill.
Garden Warbler - 1 Stanpit.

Sunday 7th September 2025

Nightjar - 1 Bradpole.
Swift - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston CP.
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Island.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Knot - 4 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 2+ Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 10+ Brownsea Island, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Little Stint - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 Brands Bay.
Greenshank - 24 Lytchett Bay, 5 Middlebere.
Spotted Redshank - 4 Lytchett Fields.
Balearic Shearwater - 120+ Portland Bill, 5 E past Kimmeridge.
Spoonbill - 63 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere.
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 26 Christchurch Harbour, 1 over Longham Lakes.
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Arctic Tern - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Little Tern - 13 Wareham Channel, 2 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Osprey - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Fields.
Hoopoe - 1 Weston (Portland).
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Godlingston Hill.
Yellow Wagtail - c20 Kimmeridge, 5 Durlston CP.
Common Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Godlingston Hill.
Whinchat - 4 Durlston CP, 2 Kimmeridge, 1 Greenlands Farm.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 Kimmeridge.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP.
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Durlston CP.
Garden Warbler - 1 Kimmeridge.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Ortolan - 1+ heard Portland Bill.

Saturday 6th September 2025

Swift - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Swanage

Knot - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Curlew Sandpiper - 7 juv Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Grey Phalarope - 2 still off Chesil Cove 

Yellow - legged Gull - 3 Wareham Channel

Glossy Ibis - 15 - 20 along East Cliff Portland then flew north, 2 Sopley Common

Spoonbill - 53 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Smedmore Hill

Osprey - 5 Wareham Channel, 2-3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Smedmore Hill

White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 off Stanpit Marsh

Wryneck - 2 St Aldhelm's Head

Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor

Swallow - 1200 over St Aldhelm's Head, 1000 over Stanpit Marsh

Blackcap - 200 Durlston CP

Wheatear - 25 Smedmore Hill

Tree Pipit - 12 Peveril Point

Great black back gull - Highcliffe ©  Clinton Whale

Friday 5th September 2025

Ringed Plover - 101 Holes Bay

Knot - 7 Holes Bay, 6 Shipstal Arne RSPB

Grey Phalarope - 1 off Cove Inn Chesil Cove, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 off Lyme Regis Cobb

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 22 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 20 Holes Bay, 4 Lower Piddle Valley

Caspian Gull - 1 Juv Abbotsbury Swannery

Yellow-legged Gull - 7 adults Arne Moors

Balearic Shearwater - 200 past Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 41 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Cattle Egret - 4 Wick Meadows

Great white Egret - 1 Osmington Mills, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 East Marsh Stanpit

Osprey  - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Littlesea The Fleet, 1 Combe Heath Arne RSPB

Honey Buzzard - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wryneck - 1 Stoborough Heath

Hobby - 1 Combe Heath Arne RSPB

Sedge Warbler - 3 Hatch Pond, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Lesser Whitethroat - 10 Durlston CP

Spotted Flycatcher - 8 Swyre Head, 4 Ballard Down, 2 Arne Farm RSPB

Black Redstart - Pentridge Whitley Top Farm

Wheatear - 20 St Aldhelms Head

Yellow wagtail - 4 St Aldhems Head, 2 Swineham

Great white Egret - Osmington Mills
© Paul Harris

Thursday 4th September 2025

Pintail - 1 Holes Bay

Goosander - 4 Silverlake

Swift - 2 Broadwey, 1 Norden Farm

Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 3 Holes Bay

Grey Phalarope - 2 off Cogden Beach, 1 off Portland Bill, 1 Chesil Cove

Green Sandpiper - 5 Warmwell Cress Beds

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank 29 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Ferrybridge

Balearic Shearwater - 77 West past Durlston CP

Glossy Ibis - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Dorchester Bluebridge footpath

Spoonbill - 27 Brownsea lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 5 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB

Hobby - 1 Newton Heath / cottage

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Wareham Forest

Glossy ibis - Lodmoor RSPB
© Phil Cheeseman

Egyptian Goose - Longham Lakes
©  Robert Fielding

Wheatear - Newtons Cove © Paul Harris

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Brent Goose - 12 Dark Bellied into Poole Harbour from Studland Bay

Cuckoo - 1 Juv on Hartland Moor

Little Ringed Plover - 1 juv Silverlake

Bar-tailed Godwit - 50 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Knot - 1 Ferrybridge

Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juv Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Grey Phalarope - 3  south off Portland Bill, 1 Durlston CP flew west, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery still

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB 

Spotted redshank - 2 Middlebere Channel, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 probable Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Pomarine Skua - 1 juv off Durlston CP

Arctic Skua - 2 off Portland Bill

Long-tailed Skua - 2 off Portland Bill

Storm Petrel - 9 off Portland Bill, 3 Chesil Cove, 2 off Durlston CP

Leach's Petrel - 1 Chesil Cove

Sooty Shearwater - 1 off Durlston CP, 1 off Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 66 off Portland, 33 going west off Durlston CP

Spoonbill - 20 Wytch Lake, 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Wareham Channel

Black Redstart - 1 Chickerell Hive Point

Dipper - 1 Kingston Mauward Manor bridge

Yesterday:

Cory's Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill

Little Stint - 2 Ferrybridge

Black headed Gull - Highcliffe Beach © Clinton Whale

Tuesday 2nd September 2025

FEA'S type PETREL- 1 West past Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 12 Holmbridge

Spoonbill - 50+ Poole Hbr, 4 Arne RSPB (Shipstal)

White-tailed Eagle - 1 imm Wareham Channel

Osprey - 3 Arne RSPB, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Hbr,

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 17 Lytchett Bay, 

Grey Phalarope - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Arctic Skua - 1 past Branksome Chine

Swift - 1 over Corfe Castle

Swallow - 14 Lytchett Bay

Redstart - 3 Studland Village, 1 Ulwell Gap

Whinchat - 1 Ulwell Gap

Aquatic Warbler - 1 Lower Piddle Valley (trapped & Ringed)

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Studland Village, 4 Ulwell Gap, 2 Lorton Meadows

Whinchat - Maiden Castle © Colin Chainey

Monday 1st September 2025

Mardarin - 1 fem. Hatch Pond

Wigeon - 1 Brand's Bay

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere, 2 Shipshal Pt, 

White-tailed Eagle - 2juv Wareham Channel (Not usual birds)

Osprey - Sev Wareham Channel/Middlebere, 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Hobby - 1 over the recreation ground Stanpit

Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 7 Warmwell CB.

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Grey Phalarope - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 past West Bexington 

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Ferrybridge

Arctic Tern - 1 juv. Ferrybridge

Forster's Tern - 1 Arne RSPB (Off Shipstal)

Wryneck - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Wheatear - 3 Ferrybridge

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit.

Spotted Flycatcher - 10 Bardolph farm, 1 Studland Village

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Monkswell Green Christchurch.

Spotted Flycatcher - Maiden Castle © Colin Chainey

Sunday 31st August 2025

Balearic Shearwater - 86 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 2 Wareham Common

Spoonbill - 21 Arne RSPB, 8 Middlebere

Osprey - 2-4 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 4 Sunnyside Farm scrape, 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Brand's Bay

Grey Phalarope - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Mudeford Quay

Long-tailed Skua - 1 ad Feerybridge

Sabine's Gull - 1 juv. east Cogden

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Radipole RSPB

Caspian Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Swift  - 2 Maiden Castle

Sand Martin - 5+ Brand's Bay

Redstart - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Yellow Wagtail - 50 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 1juv Maiden Castle, 1 Tarrant Rushton

Wheatear - 2 Wheatear Maiden Castle, 2 Brand's Bay.

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Maiden Castle

Pied Flycatcher - 1 fem/type Culverwell Portland.

Whinchat - Maiden Castle © Colin Chainey

1cy Yellow-legged Gull - Radipole Lake © Dave Chown

Saturday 30th August 2025

Wigeon - 1 Brand's Bay

Goosander - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Balearic Shearwater - 52 Portland Bill

Purple Heron - 1 jug Priory Marsh Christchurch (headed up the Avon Valley)

Spoonbill - c20 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Hbr

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 2 Osprey Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 1 Wareham Channel

Knot - 6 juv Browndea Lagoon

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 Holloway's Dock

Greenshank - 9  Poole Hbr, 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wryneck - 1 Lower Piddle Valley 

Sand Martin - 130 over Stanpit Marsh, 5+ Brand's Bay

Swallow - 100 over Stanpit Marsh, 10+ Kingcombe NNR

Tree Pipit - 9 over Stanpit Marsh

Yellow Wagtail - 135 Stanpit Marsh

Grey Wagtail - 11 over Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Corfe Mullen

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Corfe Mullen

Juv. Purple Heron _ over Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Friday 29th August 2025

Swift - 1 Ulwell Gap.
Ruff - 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Greenshank - 6 Stanpit, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Wick.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Studland.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Wick water-meadows.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Witchampton.
Yellow Wagtail - 7 over Stanpit, 4 Osmington Mills.
Common Redstart - 3 Ulwell Gap.
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle car park.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Ulwell Gap.
Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Stanpit, 1 Ulwell Gap.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Garden Warbler - 3 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit.

Swallow, Osmington Mills © Paul Harris

Yellow Wagtail with horse, Osmington Mills © Paul Harris

Thursday 28th August 2025

Swift - 1 over A35 south of Dorchester
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Sunnyside Farm
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - c30 at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 6 Stanpit, 2 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay
Sanderling - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill -  55 Brownsea Island, 1 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 1 Wick WMs
Hobby - 1 trapped & ringed in Lower Piddle Valley
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit
Yellow Wagtail - 7 over Christchurch Harbour, 4 Sunnyside Farm

Wednesday 27th August 2025

Goosander - 1 stll Christchurch Harbour.
Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - 11 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 5 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 5 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 41 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 52 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 15 west of Abbotsbury, 12+ Priory Marsh.
Osprey - 6+ Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Ham Common.
Hobby - 1 Brands Bay.
Yellow Wagtail - c80 Hengistbury Head. 4 Stanpit.
Whinchat - 2 Lytchett Matravers, 1 west of Abbotsbury, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Upton CP.

Sparrowhawk, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Nuthatch, Tuckton © Dave Hill

Tuesday 26th August 2025

Knot - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Sanderling - 6 Stanpit.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 3 Middlebere, 2 Stanpit.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Silverlakes.
White Stork - 1 over Poole Harbour went NNW.
Spoonbill - 14 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 10 Stanpit.
Osprey - 2+ Poole Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere.
Hobby - 1 Litton Cheney.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP.

Monday 25th August 2025

Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Swift - 5 East Bexington.
Nightjar - 1 Longham Lakes (caught and ringed).
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 1+ Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Woodsford Quarry (private area).
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford Quarry (private area).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay.
Greenshank - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
White Stork - 55+ over Dorchester.
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor.
Cattle Egret - 7 Priory Marsh.
Osprey - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Bryanston, 1 Crossways.
Red Kite - 2 Bryanston, 1 Kinson.
Wryneck - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Sugar Hill.
Yellow Wagtail - 80+ W of Abbotsbury, 1 Waddock Farm cress beds.
Whinchat - 3 Maiden Castle, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Stanpit.
Common Redstart - 6 Durlston CP, 3 Lambert's Castle, 1 East Bexington, 1 Maiden Castle.
Wheatear - 8 Maiden Castle area, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 20+ Lambert's Castle, 3 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Castle.
Grasshopper Warbler - 18 Durlston CP, 3 Wild Woodbury, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP.
Nightingale - 1 Culverwell.

Wryneck, Sugar Hill © Rob Morrison

Sunday 24th August 2025

Ringed Plover - 195 from Fisherman's Bank
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Warmwell Cress Beds, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 4 from Fisherman's Bank
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 25 Lytchett Fields
Caspian Gull - 1 West Bexington
Spoonbill - 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Cattle Egret - 4 towards Hengistbury Head
Osprey - 3 around Lytchett Bay
Black Kite - 1 nr. Morden Bog
Wryneck - 1 Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Bearded Tit - 1 West Bexington
Sand Martin - 37 over West Bay
Icterine Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Durlston CP
Grasshopper Warbler - 28 ringed & released at Durlston CP
Barred Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Portland Bird Observatory
Dartford Warbler - 1 ringed & released, Coppet Hill nr. Bridport
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 River Frome, Bradford Peverell, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Cstl
Redstart - 1 bridleway from Maiden Castle car park, 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 3 beyond Maiden Castle car park, 1 Godlingston Hill
Wheatear - 4 beyong Maiden Castle car park, 4 Seacombe
Yellow Wagtail - 10 West bay
Tree Pipit - 5 over Coppet Hill, nr. Bridport, 1 over Stanpit Marsh, 1 Seacombe
Cirl Bunting - 1 male Durlston CP

Yesterday: - 

Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Willow Warbler - 60 over Portland Bill
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory65

Ruff & Wood Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Osprey, Wareham Channel © Don Williams

Cormorant, Longham Lakes © Allan Hansford

Saturday 23rd August 2025

Grey Plover - 15 west over Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 2 over Grimmery Bank
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 7 east over Hengistbury Head
Sanderling - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford Quarries (Private)
Cattle Egret - 6 Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 south over Friar Waddon
Wryneck - 1 in Quarry, Cocknowle
Hobby - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Friar Waddon
Green Woodpecker - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Swallow - c620 east over Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Stonehill Down
Nightingale - 1 Bonvils, St. Aldhelm's Head
Redstart - 5 St. Aldhelm's Head, 4 Stonehill Down, 2 over Cocknowle, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 7 Stonehill Down, 5 Chickerell Hive, 2 Friar Waddon
Yellow Wagtail - c20 over Cocknowle, 16 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Friar Waddon, 2 Chickerell Hive
Tree Pipit - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 43 past Portland Bill
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Blackberry Point
Dipper - 1 Maiden Newton
Yellow Wagtail - 120+ over Crouch Hill

Little Egret, Holes Bay © Allan Hansford

Blue Tit, Poole Park © Tina Dawkins

Little Stint, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

 

Friday 22nd August 2025

Avocet - 3 Middlebere Channel
Ringed Plover - 200+ Ferrybridge, 11 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Temminck's Stint - 1 west over Abbotsbury Swannery
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Dunlin - 70 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 20 Middlebere Channel, 5 Shipstal Point, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Heron - 1 juv. still Swineham Point
Osprey - 7 to 10 from BOPH Cruise, 4 Middlebere Channel, 4 Lytchett Bay
Goshawk - 1 juv. from BOPH Cruise
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Kingfisher - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Wryneck - 1 nr. Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Bearded Tit - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Middlebere / Hartland Moor
Redstart - 3 Middlebere / Hartland Moor, 1 Godlingstone Heath
Whinchat - 2 Middlebere / Hartland Moor
Wheatear - 2 Middlebere / Hartland Moor, 2 Ballard Down

Yesterday: - 

Balearic Shearwater - 24 past Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill

Knot, Ferrybridge ©

Buzzard, Upton CP © Danni Dyson

Greylag Geese, Poole Park © Tina Dawkins

 

Thursday 21st August 2025

Canada Goose - 1074 Silverlake
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Common Sandpiper - 4 Silverlake, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 1 West Scrape, Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Silverlake
Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Barn Bight
Red Kite - 1 Maiden Castle
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Fisherman's Bank, Stanpit
Kingfisher - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Hobby - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake
Redstart - 2 Stoborough Heath
Wheatear - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields
Yellow Wagtail - 25 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Peveril Point
Tree Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

Grey Plover, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman

 

Wednesday 20th August 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper -4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Wood Sandpiper - 1 on French's Pools at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 briefly at Ferrybridge this morning
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 21 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Knot - 2 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 8 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge near Visitors Centre, 1 on Sherford Pools at Lychett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill -  32 Brownsea Island, 16 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake on west lake, 1 Middlebere
Purple Heron - 1 Swineham Point
Osprey - at least 3 around Poole Harbour
Honey-buzzard - 1 east over Hurn
Wryneck - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO, 1 Winterborne Stickland in private garden
Hobby - 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 families near Briantspuddle, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Thorncombe Wood
Redstart - 1 Merley in private garden, 1 Parkstone cemetery, 1 Briantspuddle, 1 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 78+  roosted at Hengistbury, 30+ at Briantspuddle

Purple Heron, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

 

White-tailed Eagle chasing Osprey, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

Osprey with fsh before attack from White-tailed Eagle, Swineham Point © Colin Chainey

 

Wheatear, Middlebere © Alan Membury

 

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Grey Partridge - 2 Swyre Head
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit
Sanderling - 11 Stanpit
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge from Visitors Centre
Green Sandpiper - 2 Dodding's Farm CBs
Wood Sandpiper - 1 over Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Bay, 2 Brand's Bay, 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill -  36 on Brownsea Lagoon, 9 Wareham Channel, 1 past Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 3 Arne RSPB, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 2 Ashmore
Hobby - 1 Wild WoodburyDWT, 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hartland Moor
Woodlark - 4 Hartland Moor
Spotted Flycatcher -14 Wild Woodbury DWT, 10 Hartland Moor, 6+ Pallington Lakes, 2 Stubhampton Bottom
Pied Flycatcher -1 Town Common
Firecrest - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT
Redstart - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Whinchat - 1 Whitepits (Christchurch Harbour)
Yellow Wagtail - 46 Stanpit

Spotted Flycatchers, Pallington Lakes © Janet Panter

 

Monday 18th August 2025

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Gull - 1 Roosting on Canford Cliff beach

Spoonbill - 34 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Wareham Channel

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Upton CP

Redstart - 1 female Godlingston Hill

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Wareham Common

Late news:

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh (Saturday)

Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill (yesterday)

Spotted Flycatcher & Whinchat
Fontmell Down © Mike Kirby

Sunday 17th August 2025

Goosander - 1 Redhead at Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh. 4 Brands Bay, 3 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury west of Swannery, 1 Sunnyside Farm

Spotted Redshank - 2  Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 19  Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow - legged Gull - 14 Arne Moor, 1 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Spoonbill - 21 Middlebere Avocet hide, 16 Wareham Channel

Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 4  Lytchett Bay RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Holt Heath, 1 Fontmell, 1 Wild Woodbury

Sedge Warbler - 15 Wick Hengisbury Head

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wild Woodbury, 1 Fontmell

Redstart - 4 Fontmell, 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Fontmell

Wheatear - 10 West of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Hartland Moor

Yellow Wagtail - 36 west of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Stanpit Marsh, 2  Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hartland Moor

Starlings - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 16th August 2025

Garganey - 1 drake at Radipole Lake RSPB (NOT Lodmoor as previously posted). Present since Aug 10th
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel
Spoonbill -  16 from Coombe Heath, 3 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Eype
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Tadnoll DWT
Redstart - 4 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay, 2 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 5 Hartland Moor
Wheatear -4 Hartland Moor, 2 Brand's Bay

Yesterday : 106 Balearic Shearwaters, 55 Manx Shearwaters and 3 Arctic Skuas past Portland Bill. Also 2 Pied Flycatchers and a Redstart there.

Dartford Warbler, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Whinchat, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Wheatear, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Garganey, Radipole Laker RSPB © Dave Chown

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown