Monday 2nd May 2022

Mandarin Duck - 2 on the River Stour by Canford School
Nightjar - 1 Rempstone Forest
Cuckoo - 1 Piddles Wood, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 West Compton, Rempstone Forest
Ringed Plover - 16 Ferrybridge
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Lyme Regis Cobb
Common Sandpiper - 4 Longham Lakes
Little Gull - 1 off Hengisbury Head
Black Tern - 1 off Hengisbury Head
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Garden Warbler - 2 Hengisbury Head Nursery, 1 Cogden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland in private garden
Pied flycatcher - 1 Portland nr Weston Street
Black redstart - 1 Portland Bill, Easton in private garden
Whinchat - 1  Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Greenland Farm Studland
Tree Pipit - 1 Rempstone Forest
Brambling - 2 South Haven

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale


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Sunday 1st May 2022

Garganey -  2 Lytchett Fields RSPB French's Pool
Cuckoo - 1 Charlton Down
Ringed Plover - 18 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Rosette Tern - Lyme Regis pelagic
Pomarine Skua - 4  off Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 40 Lyme Regis pelagic
Spoonbill - 8 Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel (IoW  reintroduction)
Hobby - 2 over Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ulwell
Blue headed Wagtail - 1 possible female in top fields Portland Bill

Song Thrush - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale




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Saturday 30th April 2022.

Egyptian Goose - 2 Swineham GPs.
Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Eider - 1 Durlston CP.
Cuckoo - 1-2 lower Frome valley, 1 Sixpenny Handley.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Bridport, 1 Charmouth, 1 Holes Bay, 2 White Nothe.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Gull sp. - the large white-winged gull was on Lodmoor; species is not yet confirmed.
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge.
Arctic Tern - 4 Ferrybridge.
Great Skua - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Black-throated Diver - 2 Durlston CP.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 35 Chesil Beach, 45 Durlston CP.
Cattle Egret - 1 North over Christchurch Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Sixpenny Handley, 1 Martinstown.
Black Kite - 1 North over Corfe Castle (this was not Thursday's bird).
Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland, 7 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Wick.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 1 Charmouth, 1 Durlston CP meadows, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.

Reed Warbler, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper














Reed Bunting, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper















Sedge Warbler, Sturminster Newton © Matt Cooper


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Friday 29th April 2022.

Egyptian Goose - 2 East Holme GPs.
Cuckoo - 1 Arne, 1 East Holme GPs.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Tincleton cressbeds.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Longham Lakes.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 46 past Chesil.
Whimbrel - 10 Ferrybridge, 10 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Common Tern - 165+ Brownsea Island.
Puffin - 1 from Chesil Beach.
Great Northern Diver - 2 past St Aldhelm's Head.
Manx Shearwater - 86 past Chesil Beach.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 3-4 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Gussage Down, 1 Swanage.
Hoopoe - 1 West Bexington (Manor Hotel).
Redstart - 3 Portland, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Studland (Greenlands Farm).
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland.
Whinchat - 5 Portland (Barleycrates), 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Studland (Greenlands Farm), 2 West Bay.

Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham.


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Thursday 28th April 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Cogden Beach, 1 Brownsea Island
Sanderling - 3 West Bexington
Purple Sandpiper - 1 West Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake on eastern lake, 1 Longham Lakes
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury in Barn Bight
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Cattle Egret - 17 Wareham on R. Frome seen from bridge
Great White Egret - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Black Kite -1 seen at Langton Matravers, Ulwell Gap and Ballard Down
Hobby - 1 Studland Beach heading north, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 1 Cogden Beach
Whinchat - 1 Cogden Beach
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Coot, Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Wheatear, Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

 


 

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Wednesday 27th April 2022.

Garganey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Lytchett Fields.
Swift - 1 nr Child Okeford, 2 Hengistbury Head, 4 Longham Lakes, 8 Portland Bill, 
        2 Sandbanks, 1 Shapwick, 1 Swineham.
Cuckoo - 1 Brownsea Island.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Poole Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Canford School, 1 Longham Lakes.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Poole Harbour.
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Island.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 98 Chesil.
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island, 2 at and 22 past Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 
        3 Peveril Point, 2 Poole Harbour.
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Glaucous Gull - a possible past Portland Bill.
Little Tern - 3 past Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Osprey - 5 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Cheselbourne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour (Isle of Wight reintroduction scheme).
Hobby - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour, 4 Portland Bill.
Redstart - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head (Solent Meads).
Whinchat - 3+ Portland.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill.

Dunlin, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.
















Curlew Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.




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Tuesday 26th April 2022.

Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Grey Plover - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Bar-tailed Godwit - c.650 distantly past Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Arctic Skua - 4 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island.
Cattle Egret - 5 lower Frome Valley.
Great White Egret - 1 lower Frome Valley.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Heath.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Keysworth then Morden (Isle of Wight reintroduction scheme).
Whimbrel - 15 Christchurch Harbour, 4 past Hengistbury Head.
Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Shapwick/White Mill area.
Wood Warbler - 1 Muscliffe.

Curlew Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.


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Monday 25th April 2022


Egyptian Goose - 4 Swineham, 2 East Stoke
Garganey - 2 Lytchett Fields
Cuckoo - 1 Swineham, 1 Gt. Ovens Heath, nr. Wareham
Whimbrel - 6 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Smallmouth Bay, Ferrybridge
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Nth over West Cliffs, 1 Nth over Easton, both Portland
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Nth over Avalanche Hump
Red Kite - 1 Parkstone
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ring Ouzel - 1 in field nr.Portland Bird Observatory
Fieldfare - 2 late leavers at Lambert's Castle
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 10 off Portland Bill
Red-Throated Diver - 6 off Portland Bill

Redstart, Hengistbury Head © Mike Gibbons


Lesser Whitethroat, Durlston CP © Rob Johnson


Whinchat, Portland © Phil Cheeseman




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Sunday 24th April 2022

Whimbrel - 3 South Haven, 1 Ringstead Bay, 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ringstead Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Cattle Egret - 2 Weymouth, 1 nr. Fancy's Farm, Portland
Hoopoe - 1 Portesham, private garden
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 over Blacknor then Reap Lane
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Garden Warbler - 2 North of Avalanche Road Hump
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 over Prison Moat, Portland
Ring Ouzel - 2 over Prison Moat, 2 Barleycrates, 1 Reap Lane - all Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 North of Avalanche Road Hump
Redstart - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Portland Castle, 1 over Prison Moat, 1 Top Fields, Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 4 St. Aldhem's Head, 2 over South Haven
Tree Pipit - 1 The Verne, Portland, 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Lapland Bunting - 1 over St. Aldhem's Head

Meadow Pipit, Wareham Forest © Ian Ballam

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Saturday 23rd April 2022

Garganey - 2 Ferrybridge
Swift - 1 Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett Fields
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields
Osprey - 1 North over Blacknor, 1 East over Radipole, possibly same bird
Red Kite - 1 West Morden
Black Kite - 1 North over Salway Ash
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Tidmoor
Ring Ouzel - 1 Tout Quarry, Portland, 1 ringed at Culverwell, Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Reap Lane, Portland
Redstart - 3 St. Aldhem's Head
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor, Portland
Whinchat - 8 Portland Bill, 4 Barleycrates, 4 St. Aldhem's Head, 2 Reap Lane, 1 Ferrybridge
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Lytchett Fields

Yesterday: -

Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head

Whitethroat, The Fleet © Sue Wingett






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Friday 22nd April 2022

Mandarin - 1 in Garden, Crossway
Avocet - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 20 over Tidmoor Range, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 NW over Portland Bill
Bar-tailed Godwit - 6 over Tidmoor Range
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 8 roosted at Abbotsbury Swannery
Hen Harrier - 1 from Portland Bill, then over Fortuneswell, Portland
Red Kite - 2 over Tout Quarry, Portland, 1 over Arne Peninsula, 1 over Brownsea
Black Kite - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Short-eared Owl - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Garden Warbler, 1 Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Top Fields, Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Sweethill, Portland, 1 Wakeham, Portland
Corn Bunting - 1 Wakeham, Portland


Avocet, Lodmoor RSPB © Jeremy Rowen

Red Kite, Abbotsbury © Sue Wingett


Wheateat, Chesil Beach © Paul Dibben

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Thursday 21st April 2022

Goosander - 1 female Puddletown WMs
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Wyke Farm, 1 Sturminster GP, 1 Hengistbury
Osprey - 1 north over Wakeham (Portland)
Black Kite -1 over Weymouth flew towards The Fleet
Red Kite - 2 Abbotsbury, 2 Woodville, 1 Silverlake, 1 over Lilliput (Poole)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St Alhelm's Head
Garden Warbler - 1 Sturminster GP, 1 Briantspuddle
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Silverlake, 1 Wyke Farm, 1 Puddletown WMs, 1 Spyway, 1 Hengistbury
Firecrest -1 Wyke Farm
Ring Ouzel - 1 Stanpit
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Silverlake in private area
Redstart - 2 Wareham Forest
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 6 over Christchurch Harbour
Tree Pipit - 6 Morden Bog, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Nuthatch, near Shaftesbury © John Bishop





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Wednesday 20th April 2022

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit, 2 past St Aldhelm's Head, 2 past Hengistbury, 1 Holes Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 5 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 West Bexington, 1 Holes Bay
Sandwich Tern - 35 Christchurh Harbour, 9 Ferrybridge, 2 past St Aldhelm's Head
Little Tern - 6 Ferrybridge
Red-throated Diver - 1 west Hengistbury
Great White Egret - 2 west at Cogden Beach, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - at least 48 over Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Broadwey, 1 Puddletown
Merlin - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler -1 trapped at Portland Bill
Tree Pipit -1 in off sea at Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest -1 St Aldhelm's Head
Pied Flycatcher - 2 trapped at  Portland Bird Observatory, 1 Cogden Beach
Redstart - 2 trapped at Portland Bill, 1 Rempstone
Whinchat - 1 Ferrybridge
Ring Ouzel - 1 Godlingston Hill (near Ulwell)
Yellow Wagtail - 1 in off sea at Christchurch Harbour

Jay, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Reed Warbler, Marhull © John Bishop

 


 

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Tuesday 19th April 2022

Mandarin Duck - 1 drake on R. Wey at Nottington
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Priory Marsh (Christchuch)
Whimbrel - 23 Christchurch Harbour,  3 East Fleet, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Knot - 3 Hengistbury
Common Sandpiper - 3 East Fleet, 2 Ferrybridge (Hamm Beach)
Purple Sandpiper - 5 east past West Bay
Sandwich Tern - 35 Christchurch Harbour, 20 off Hengistbury, 2 Ferrybridge
Little Tern - 2 Ferrybridge
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 5 Peveril Point
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham
Red Kite - 1 Morden, 1 over Bridport
Black Kite - 1 seen flying west between West Bay and Eype this morning
White-tailed Eagle - 2 released birds on Brownsea Island lagoon
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Ballard Down/Old Harry, 1 Tout Quarry (Portland)
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 East Fleet
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 1 near Bowers Quarry (Portland)
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ballard Down/Old Harry

NB no reports of the Green-winged Teal at Lytchett Fields RSPB today.

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Monday 18th April 2022

 Green-winged Teal - 1 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Holt Heath, 1 Portland
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Hampreston Fields
Whimbrel - 4 Lodmoor, 1 Tidmoor
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor
Glossy Ibis - 1 still Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 2 flew past Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 2 on Stilt Pool Bestwall RSPB, 
Red Kite - 1 over Westbourne, 1 Portland, 1 Kimmeridge, 3 over Stoborough Heath, 3 over Swyre Head
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Continental Coal Tit - 1 Hengistbury Head
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Tidmoor
Pied Flycatcher - male Portland Castle
Whinchat - 1 Portland


Pied Flycatcher, Portland Castle   © Karen Jayne





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Sunday 17th April 2022

 Green-winged Teal - drake still on Sherford Pool, Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 NW of Sixpenny Handley, 1 Slepe Heath, 1 Wytch Lake, 1 Brownsea, 1 Arne
Little Ringed Plover - 1 on Hampreston Meadows, 2 Sunnyside
Whimbrel - 30 Sea Watch Chesil Cove, 1 off Langton Hive Point
Little Gull - 2 adults passed Chesil Cove
Sandwich Tern - 20 Sea Watch Chesil Cove, 2 off Langton Hive Point
Common Tern - 55 Sea Watch Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 8 Sea watch from Chesil Cove
Glossy Ibis - 1 still on Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 over Chickerell
Black Kite - 1 over the Verne then flew south

Sandwich Terns, Langton Hive Point © Geoff Barlow


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Saturday 16th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - drake still at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cuckoo - 1 Ringstead Bay, 1 Pamphill
Purple Sandpipers - 12 Cobb Rock Lyme Regis
Glossy Ibis- 1 still Stanpit Marsh 
Cattle Egret - 17 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 over Martinstown, 2 south of Hardy's monument, 3 circling over Parkstone
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Durlston CP
Nightingale - 1 Durlston CP
Pied Flycatcher - male Weston, Portland
Black Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Ridge

Mandarin Duck, River Stour   © John Coleman


Lesser Whitethroat, Durlston CP  © Hamish Murray




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Friday 15th April 2022

 Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Grey Partridge - 8 St Aldhelm's Head
Quail - 1 Portland
Whimbrel - 2 Portland, 1 just west of West Bexington
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 40 Brownsea Island
Common Tern - 20 Brownsea Island
Great Northern Diver - 7 offshore Hengistbury Head
Glossy Ibis - 1 still Stanpit Marsh
Cattle Egret - 2 Bestwall RSPB, 11 East Marsh Christchurch
Red Kite - 2 over Wyke Regis
Sand Martin - 9 Silverlake
Continental Coal Tit - 1 briefly at Ferrybridge
Black Redstart - 1 Portland, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Serin - 1 briefly at St Aldhelm's Head


Whimbrel, West Bexington  © Richard Cook


Whitethroat, Portland © Mark Eggleton



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Thursday 14th April 2022


Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Bay off Bournemouth Pier
Cattle Egret - 1 Hampreston Meadows
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Hbr (Bincleaves)
Osprey - 3 Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 20 Christchurch Hbr.
Purple Sandpiper - 6 Hengistbury Hd, 22 Lyme Regis Cobb (yesterday)
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - 9 Silverlake, also at Swineham GP.(no count)
Willow Warbler - 34 Portland Bill, 7 Hengistbury Hd.
Blackcap - 34 Portland Bill, 6 Middlebere
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Portland Bill (1 at Obs, 1 Crown estates)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Tidmoor
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Glossy Ibis, Stanpit © Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 13th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 still Lytchett Fields RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh Stanpit
Spoonbill - 5 Arne RSPB
Red Kite - 1 over Upton/Lytchett bay
Osprey - 3 Arne RSPB, 1 over Rockley
Little Ringed Plover - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Is, 1 Portland Bill
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay NE.
Greenshank - 6 Brownsea Is.
Arctic Skua - 1 Tidmoor
Sandwich Tern - 43 Brownsea Is.
Common Tern - 3 Brownsea Is, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Hoopoe - 1 Hartland Moor
Hobby - 1 Slepe Heath
Swallow - 17 N St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Wood Warbler - 1 in the Lower Piddle Valley
Willow Warbler - 3 Reeap Lane Portland, 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Sedge Warbler - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Black Redstart - 1 Reap Lane Portland, 1 Lubbecke Way Dorchester
Redstart - 2 Reap Lane Portland Bill, 1 Lyme Regis, 1 Hegistbury Hd, 1 Greenlands Fm.
Whinchat - 1 Sunnyside Fm.

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Tuesday 12th April 2022

Garganey - 1 drake Coward's Marsh
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Scoter - 106 Portland Bill, 40 Hengistbury Hd, 35 E Durlston CP, 15E Charmouth
Red-throated Diver - 14 Portland Bill, 9E Durlston CP, 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Charmouth
Manx Shearwater - 200 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston CP.
Cattle Egret - 1 Hampreston meadows
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham Channel (IoW Intro)
Osprey - 3 Poole Hbr.
Little Ringed Plover - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Arctic Skua - 17 Portland Bill, 1E Durlston CP, 2W Charmouth
Great Skua - 10 Portland Bill, 1E Durlston CP.
Arctic Tern - 4 Portland Bill
Sandwich Tern - 28 Portland Bill
Common Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Longham Lakes, 2 Brand's Bay
Cuckoo - 1 Charmouth, 1 Martin Down
Common Swift - 1 West Bay
Hoopoe - 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 3 Charmouth
Chiffchaff - 180-200 Charmouth
Willow Warbler - 8 Portland Bill, 3 Charmouth
Blackcap - 35-40 Charmouth
Whitethroat - 5 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Reap Lane Portland, 1 Grove Hill Bottom Martintown, 1 Longham lakes
Reed Warbler - 3 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay VP.
Sedge Warbler - 5 Lodmoor
Ring Ouzel - 1 Green Hill Down NR
Pied Flycatcher - 1 fem Southwell School, 1 Reap Lane.
Redstart - 2 Portland Bill, 2 Reap Lane Portland
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Charmouth, 1 Portland Bill
Brambling - 2 Portland Castle

Late news for 11th April:
Ring Ouzel - 6 at Hambledon Hill (also Black Redstart, Redstart)
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Monday 11th April 2022

Mandarin - 2 East Holme GP
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Garganey - 2 past Hengistbury Hd, 1 drake Coward's Marsh
Common Scoter - 406 past Portland Bill, 159 Hengistbury hd.
Velvet Scoter - 10 past Chesil & Portland Bill, 9 West Bay, 3 Charmouth
Red-throated Diver - 9 past Hengistbury Hd.
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Cattle Egret - 5 Worgret (view from Bog Lane Natural Open Space)
Glossy Ibis - 1 long stayer Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 NW Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite 3 over Poole Hbr, 1 over Blandford
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham Forest (heading towards Poole Hbr). (IOW Intro)
Osprey - 3 Poole Hbr, 1 N Abbotsbury
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 in off sea Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 201 Portland Bill, 123 Chesil, 57 West Bay, 40 Ferrybrudge, 27 St Aldhelm's Hd, 2 Stanpit Marsh, and single seen Rodden Hive, Arne, Brownsea Is.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Rodden Hive
Arctic Skua - 83 Portland Bill, 7 Chesil, 6 West Bay
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Little Tern - 3 past Chesil
Sandwich Tern - 635 Hengistbury Hd, 264 Portland Bill
Common Tern - 16 Hengistbury Hd, 5 past St Aldhelm'd Hd, 
Arctic Tern - 22 Portland Bill, 9 St Aldhelm's Hd, 5 Charmouth
Merlin - 1 Porrtland Bill
Sand Martin - c100 over Wareham, 21 Hengistbury Hd.
Swallow - c30 over Wareham, 17 Hengistbury Hd.
House Martin - c10 over Wareham, 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Bog Lane, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Hartland Moor
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Castle
Black Redstart - 1 Bog Lane, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Redstart - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 4 Hengistbuury Hd, 2 Portland Bill
Brambling - 2 Portland Bill

Black-tailed Godwit - Hengistbury Hd. © Clinton Whale



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Sunday 10th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB Sherford Pools
Common Scoter - 38 Past Portland Bill
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Poole Harbour Salterns Marina
Great Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 5 past Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver 7 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh Stanpit
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere, 1 over East Stoke 
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour, 1 Over Upton, 1 over White Nothe
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Chesil Cove flying North towards Langton Herring
Red Kite - 1 over Swineham
White tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel IOW reintroduction
Continental Coal Tit - 2 Blacknor Portland, 1 Portland Obs
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Wyke Down
Wheatear - 12 St Aldhems Head, 8 Talbort Heath, 1 Wyke Down
Tree Pipit - 1 heard calling over Easton Portland

Breaking News: male Osprey 022 arrived back in Poole Harbour and soon paired up again with Osprey CJ7 on a new undisclosed nest. Webcam Link Poole Harbour Osprey Nest site 2

Osprey CJ7 & 022 - Screenshot Birds of Poole Harbour
Osprey Webcam




Redstart - Stanpit Marsh ©Scott Usher


 

Glossy Ibis - Priory Marsh ©Clinton Whale



 

  

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Saturday 9th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 drake at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Whimbrel - 1 Wareham Channel seen from Ham common
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill below MOD facility
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB 
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB Arable field
Spoonbill - 8 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 1 Spetisbury, 2 Middlebere / Arne RSPB, 1 Morden Bog
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Channel, 1 over Sherford Bridge Wareham Forest
White tailed Eagle - 1 G318 seen at Wareham Channel, Middlebere and flying North from St Aldhelms Head  IOW reintroduction
Marsh Tit - 1 singing by River Mangerton nr Bridport
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still in sallows by R Asker near Co-op in Bridport
Whitethroat - 1 male singing nr Fancy's farm Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Crossbill - 2 Wareham Forest

Crossbill - Wareham Forest ©Garry Hayman




Peregrine Falcon - Bournemouth ©David Wareham


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Friday 8th April 2022


Green-winged Teal - 1 drake at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Golden Plover - c70 flew East Cogden Beach
Iceland Gull - 1 2nd winter at Radipole RSPB  by visitor centre
Common Tern - 3 flew west at Durlston CP
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 6 Arne RSPB, 1 Hengisbury Head flew east
Cattle Egret - 12 Cowards Marsh
Osprey - 1 Rodden Hive, 2 Poole Harbour
White tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel IOW reintroduction
Ring Ouzel - 2 Nicodemus Knob Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still in sallows by R Asker near Co-op in Bridport

Yesterday: Sooty Shearwater flew past the Portland Bill

Fulmar - Durlston CP ©Garry Hayman


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Thursday 7th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 drake still at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory Marsh
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett bay
Willow Warbler - 1 Swineham 
Sedge Warbler - 1 Swineham
Fieldfare - 2 Hartland Moor
Black Redstart - 1 Easton Portland

Linnet - © Clinton Whale




Shelduck -© Clinton Whale



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Wednesday 6th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 drake still at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 5 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 29 Mudeford Quay
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 6 Middlebere
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Priory Marsh
Osprey - 1 over Holton Lee
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still in sallows by R Asker near Co-op in Bridport
White Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Middlebere

Yesterday : A ring-necked Parakeet seen at 8am in a Merley garden.

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Tuesday 5th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - 1 drake still at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 9 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 7 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 6 Coward's Marsh
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh (Christchurch Harbour)
Osprey - 1 Morden Bog NNR
White Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor & 1 Easton (Portland), 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Little Ringed Plover, Lytchett Fields RSPB © Clive Hargrave

Osprey, Morden Bog NNR © Alan Membury



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Monday 4th April 2022

Whooper Swan - 1 Hampreston (please keep to public rights of way)
Green-winged Teal - 1 drake at Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Velvet Scoter - 1 past Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 calling at Swineham GPs
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 8 Arne RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 Avon Valley
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still in sallows by R Asker near Co-op in Bridport

Cormorant, Iford © Clinton Whale

 

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Sunday 3rd April 2022

Garganey - 1 in Parky Mead Rail (Christchurch Harbour)
Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh (Christchurch Harbour)
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Morden Bog
White-tailed  Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Hoopoe - 2 in a Christchurch garden this morning
Swallow - 3 Wimborne, 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Hinton St Mary
House Martin - 1 over Poole Harbour entrance
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 again in sallows by R Asker near Co-op in Bridport
Redstart - 1 trapped at PBO. 1 Arne RSPB
Black Redstart - 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Swanage
Water Pipit - 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery

Dunnock, Dancing Ledge © Vinny Blood


Woodlark today @ Alan Membury


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Saturday 2nd April 2022

Barnacle Goose - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill, 1 West Bay
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Spoonbill - 8 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 north over St Aldhelm's Head, 1 over Coombe Heath
White-tailed  Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Hoopoe - 1 at Weston Farm, Worth Matravers this morning
Ring Ouzel - 1 West Bexington
Black Redstart - 3 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Durlston CP, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 West Bay, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Acton

Hoopoe, Worth Matravers © Colin Chainey

Peregrine, Christchurch Priory © Clinton Whale

 

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