Wednesday 21st October 2026

Grey Plover - 9 Stanpit
Bar-tailed Godwit - 11 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 17 in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint, 3 Holes Bay
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Snow Bunting - 1 Portland Bill on East Cliffs below the Observatory 

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Monday 19th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Longham Lakes
Mandarin Duck - 32 Thorncombe
Velvet Scoter - 1 Kimmeridge flew East
Grey Plover - 2 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Caspian Gull - 1 1st Winter Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Lagoon, 30 Shipstall Point Arne
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail through Kimmeridge
Black Redstart - 2 Portland
Water Pipit - 3 North Viewing screen Radipole Lake

Barnacle Goose Longham Lakes © Martin Wood

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Sunday 18th October 2026

Pochard - 16 Longham Lakes
Greater Scaup - 1 Drake Abbotsbury swannery
Cattle Egret - 8 Holmebridge
Red Kite - 9 West Bay, 1 Longham lakes, 2 Bere Marsh farm
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 2 Winspit valley, 1 heard calling at Ladymead Gardens Portland early morning
Ring Ouzel - 2 Eastington Farm top of Seacombe
Brambling - 1 Hardy Monument, 7 Ballard Down
Redpoll - 3 Ballard down
Cirl Bunting - 1 West Bay





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Saturday 17th October 2026

Goldeneye - 1 Male flew into the harbour early morning
Red Brerasted Meerganser - 3 Littlesea Tidmoor
Greater Scaup - 1 1st winter off Goathorn, 1 Wareham Channel ID showed to be different birds, 1 Drake Abbotsbury swannery
Red Kite - 1 Sydling St Nicholas, 2 Spetsbury, 15 Pentridge Down
Merlin - 1 Littlesea SE, 1 Ballard Down
Redpoll - 3 N.Haven 5 Pentridge Down
Black Redstart - Reap Lane Portland, 1 Range Tidmoor







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Friday 16th October 2026

Golden Plover - 4 over West Compton
Bar-tailed Godwit - 8 Arne Bay
Sandwich Tern - 3 around Newton's Cove Weymouth
Spoonbill - 60 Shipstal PointArne Bay RSPB
Hen Harrier - Ringtail again at West Compton
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Stour valley
Merlin - male West Compton
Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still at Crown Estate field Portland
Woodlark - 13 flew over Portland
 Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory

Sub adult Goshawk, Middlebere © Aidan Brown

Sparrowhawk © Tim Balmer



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Thursday 15th October 2026

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury swannery
 Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill yesterday
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at East Marsh Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - in water meadows River Frome near Lubbecke Way Dorchester
Marsh Harrier - 1 West Compton
Hen Harrier - Ringtail again at West Compton
Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still Crown Estate fields Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 at the 'hump'Avalanche Road Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 hut field Portland Bird Observatory
Firecrest - 1 in trees near the Derby Road - Manor Road roundabout East Cliff Bournemouth
Black Redstart - 1 top fields Portland
Olive-backed Pipit - 1 briefly at Hengistbury Head
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Wednesday 14th October 2026

Common/Pallid Swift - from boat tour Poole Harbour
Avocet - 32 Holes Bay, c.400 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 still from Rock Leigh viewpoint Lytchett Fields RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory marsh Stanpit Marsh, 5 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 flew over Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon, 48 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 off Giggers Island Poole Harbour
Marsh Harrier - 6+ Swineham/Keysworth area
Hen Harrier - juvenile male at Arne Moors 
Red Kite - 2 over Holton Lee
Red-backed Shrike - 1st winter still at Crown Estate fields Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 briefly at  Knighton Heath wood
Redwing - 6 over Parkstone, 4 Stanpit

Treecreeper, North Dorset © Tim Balmer


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Tuesday 13th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 5 north of level crossing on Lewell Road Woodsford
Egyptian Goose - 153 Woodsford Farm (227 last night)
Goosander - 7 Silverlake
Avocet - c.500 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit Bight, 1 Lodmoor, west scrape
Golden Plover - 275 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome Woodsford
Arctic Tern - 1 from Stone Pier Weymouth
Glossy Ibis - 1 North Marsh Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor
Cattle Egret - 8 Louds Mill
Hen Harrier - Ringtail between West Compton and Eggardon Hill
Red Kite - 1 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Winterbourne Herringston, 2 Middlebere
Merlin - 1 Compton Valance, 1 Middlebere
Red-backed Shrike - 1 still Crown Estate field Portland
Wheatear - 2 Crouch Hill


Hen Harrier Middlebere © Aidan Brown



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Monday 12th October 2026

Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 13 Portland Bill,  3 from Poole to Guernsey ferry
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Poole to Guernsey ferry
Spoonbill - 25 Brownsea Lagoon 
Avocet c400 Brownsea Lagoon
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay 
Arctic Skua - 9 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Peveril Point.

Common Sandpiper - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood

Grey Plover - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood








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Sunday 11th October 2026

Barnacle Goose - 1 Wareham Water Meadow
Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Scaup - 1 male Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 6 Silverlake
Cattle Egret - 234 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor RSPB 
Great White Egret - 5 Abbottsbury Swannery, 5 Coombe Arne, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 4 in the Wareham Channel, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Red Kite - 7 over Pentridge, 5 Red Kite over Swineham Pt, 4 Coombe Arne.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Coombe Arne., 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Abbotdbury Swannery, 1 Charmouth
Merlin - 1 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Acton 
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.
Golden Plover - 260 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 over Hengistbury Hd.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 4 Poole Hbr.
Woodpigeon - c340 over St Aldhelm's Hd.
Woodlark - 13+ over Pentridge, 1 St. Aldhelm's Head, 1 Charmouth 
Skylark - 120 St Aldhelm's Hd. 15 over Pentridge.
Redwing - 23 over Pentridge. 
Alba Wagtail - 82 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 20 over Pentridge
Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st/w Portland Bill
Brambling - 1 heard over Abbotsbury Swannery

Greater Scaup - Abbotsbury Swannery © Helen Wood




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Saturday 10th October 2026

Scaup - 1 imm/male Abottsbury Swannery
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 6 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon
Glossy Ibis - 1 Hengistbury Hd. (seen later on Easy marsh)
Red Kite - 4 from Cordite Waly Holton Heath, 1 Swyer Head
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Swyer Head, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Merlin - 2 over Hengistbury Hd.
Avocet - 618 Brownsea Lagoon
Golden Plover - c250 Lodmoor RSPB
Jack Snipe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Phalarope - 1 Lyme Regis
Little Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Pied Wagtail - 260-300 to roost Hatch Pond
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd, (Solent Mead)
Willow Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
RADDE'S WARBLER - 1 LYTCHETT HEATH (Caught and ringed)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Red-backed Shrike - 1 1st/w Portland Bill in Crown Estate Fields
Magpie - 60-80 to roost Harch Pond
Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Redpoll - 2 Hengistbury Hd

Radde'd Warbler - Lytchett Heath © Nick Hull









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Friday 9th October 2026

Garganey - 1 Dorchester Water Meadows
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach Studland
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 4 Lytchett Bay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill on the top fields.
Red-backed Shrike - 1 Portland Bill by the old Higher Light

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Thursday 8th October 2026

Common Crane - 5 Overcombe
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel
Glossy Ibis - 6  Wareham Channel
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Wareham Channel
Wryneck - 1 West Bexington along coast path below long house
Red-Backed Shrike - 1 fields North of Lighthouse Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Maiden Castle
Dusky Warbler - 1 in moat at crazy golf Weymouth
Wheatear - 1 Peverill Point Swanage







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Wednesday 7th October 2026

Golden Plover - 18 Stanpit Marsh flew West
Grey Plover - 8 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Lodmoor RSPB West scrape
Spoonbill - 78 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh on South & West marsh, 1 over Briantspuddle
Cattle Egret - 19 Bog Lane SANG Stoborough
Great White Egret - 1 Bog Lane SANG Stoborough
Short eared Owl - 1 Throop Bournemouth
Whinchat - 1 Holme Lane GP

Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola




Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 




Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 




Short eared Owl - Throop Bournemouth
©  Nicola 



 



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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 


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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


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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
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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



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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


 



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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



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