Saturday 3rd September 2022

Pintail - 6 Herbury The Fleet
Ringed Plover - 2 Lyme Regis Cobb, 12 Herbury The Fleet, 11 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Ruff - 2 Wyke Down
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 40 Brownsea island Lagoon DWT, 15 Arne RSPB, 22 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 15 Christchurch Harbour 
Osprey - 2 Arne RSPB, 1 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wryneck - 1 Trapped & ringed at Durlston CP
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelms Head
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 Trapped & ringed at Durlston CP
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelms Head, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Hengisbury Head
Whinchat- 6 St Aldhelms Head, 4 Wyke down, 2 Stubhampton, 3 Hengisbury Head
Tree Sparrow - 1 Wyke Down
Yellow wagtail - 20 Stubhampton
Orlolan Bunting - 1 St Aldhelms Head

Teal - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale


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Friday 2nd September 2022

Brent Goose - 4 Brands Bay
Pintail - 1 Radipole RSPB, 13 Brands Bay flying towards Littlesea
Ringed Plover - 16 Brands Bay
Knot - 8 Brands Bay, 2 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 6 Brands Bay, 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Herbury The Fleet
Sanderling - 15 Brands Bay, 4 Cogden  Beach
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay RSPB
Caspian Gull - 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Poole Harbour Entrance
Spoonbill - 41 Shipstal Pt Arne RSPB, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Radipole RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 5 Poole Harbour, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Tout Quarry Portland
Marsh Harrier - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Red Kite - Larksmead Blandford
White Tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour (IOW Reintroduction)
Short Eared Owl - 1 Cogden Beach
Wryneck - 1 South Dorset Ridge above Abbotsbury
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert Castle
Redstart - 6 Middlebere Plateway, 5 Lambert Castle, 8 South Dorset Ridgeway above Abbotsbury
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Thursday 1st September 2022

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB (seen from tennis courts)
Knot - 3 Stanpit, 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Herbury (The Fleet), 1 Ringstead beach
Ruff - 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 14 Brand's Bay, 3 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Herbury (The Fleet), 1 possibly 2 at Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit
Bar-tailed Godwit -  3 Herbury (The Fleet), 3 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill early morning
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 over Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 3+ Poole Harbour area,  2 Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Middlebere
Wryneck - 1 on beach opposite mere at West Bexington
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Lambert's Castle, 2 Cogden Beach, 1 between Martinstown/Maiden Castle,                     1 Hengistbury Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 18 Lambert's Castle, 6 Hengistbury Head, 1 Rushcombe LNR
Redstart - 20 Lambert's Castle, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Rushcombe LNR,                                                                1 between Martinstown/Maiden Castle, 1 Sturminster Marshall GP
Whinchat - 5 Puddletown WMs, 5 Martinstown/Maiden Castle, 2 Seacombe Quarry,                                     1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Wyke Down, 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 40+ Scotland Farm, 4 Stanpit, 2 Hengistbury Head

Osprey, Stanpit © Scott Usher

Pied Flycatcher, Lambert's Castle © Rodney Gayer


Redstart, Lambert's Castle © Rodney Gayer


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Wednesday 31st August 2022

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB (seen from tennis courts)
Sanderling - 5 Brand's Bay
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Curlew Sandpiper -  1 still at Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Spoonbill - 36 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 near Rodden Hive
Yellow Wagtail - 14 Wareham Common, c12 Lodmoor RSPB, 6 over Bulbarrow Hill
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Wyke Down
Whinchat -1 Brand's Bay, 1 Silverlake, 7 Wyke Down

Yesterday : a Wryneck flew into a shop window at Castlepoint Shopping Centre Bournemouth, recovered and flew off.

Yellow Wagtail, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown

Garganey, Radipole Lake RSPB © Dave Chown
Black-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale

Spoonbill, Lodmoor RSPB © Clinton Whale
 


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Tuesday 30th August 2022

Grey Partridge - 21 St Aldhelm's Head
Cuckoo - a juvenile at St Adlhelm's Head
Golden Plover - 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brand's Bay (Redhorn Quay), 1 on the Fleet at Herbury, 1 Ferrybridge this evening
Balearic Shearwater - 256 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 left roost at Christchurch Harbour this morning
Spoonbill - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 7 left roost at Christchurch Harbour this morning, 1 Wareham WMs, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 released birds in Lytchett Bay area, 1 over Whitchampton
Osprey - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit (1H9 ringed at Rutland Water on 27th June)
Hobby - 1 over Marnhull
Whinchat -2 Didlington (near Moor Crichel)

Curlew Sandpiper, Herbury © Freddy Alway

 

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Monday 29th August 2022

 Grey Partridge - 2 plus 11 chicks in a garden at Farnham near Chettle
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper 2 Lodmoor
Greenshank - 1 Warmwell Cress beds
Glossy Ibis - North Marsh, Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 34 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Osprey - 1 over Brownsea Island, 1 Portland, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 9 Poole Harbour
Honey Buzzard - 1 Holton Heath, 1 Wimborne St Giles
White-tailed Eagle - 1 female introduction Lytchett Bay, 
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert's Castle Hill, 1 Studland Village, 1 near Athelhampton, 1 The Batters, 
4 Brands Bay
Redstart - 2 Lambert's Castle Hill, 2 The Batters
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle, 3 Hartland Moor, 2 The Batters, 3 Brands Bay
Wheatear - 5 Maiden Castle, 4 Hartland Moor

Yesterday;
Balearic Shearwater - 8 past Portland Bill

Common Redstart, Lamberts Castle Hill  © Richard Charmouth Birder


Yellow Wagtail, Lodmoor © Loy Stobart

Little Owl, Portland © Loy Stobart




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Sunday 28th August 2022.

Knot - 8 Christchurch Harbour.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Arne, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Poole Quay.
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 1 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne Moors and Lytchett Bay (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields, 8 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down area.
Goshawk - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 Ham Common/Arne, 2 Maiden Newton, 1 Wareham Channel.
Kestrel - 6+ Maiden Castle.
Dipper - 1 R. Frome west of Dorchester.
Whinchat - 1 Hartland Moor, 3 Ringstead Bay, 4 Wyke Down.
Common Redstart - 1 Maiden Castle.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit.


Redshank, Stanpit © Clinton Whale

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Saturday 27th August 2022.

Swift - 4 St Aldhelm's Head.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Knot - 2 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 9 Brownsea Island, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Middlebere.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island. 1 Swineham.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Wareham Channel.
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 briefly on Stanpit this morning.
Balearic Shearwater - 246 past Portland Bill, 8 St Aldhelm's Head.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Spoonbill - 32 Brownsea Island, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston CP, 2 Middlebere, 2 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 2 near Melbury Abbas.
Hobby - 2 Wareham Channel.
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill.
Yellow Wagtail - 205 West Bay.
Whinchat - 4 Portland Bill, 7 West Bay.
Common Redstart - 4 Hartland Moor, 1 Rushcombe Bottom LNR, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes.
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Friday 26th August 2022.

Wigeon - 1 Holes Bay.
Shoveler - 8 Swineham.
Swift - 8 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Cattle Egret - 7 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Fields (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 5-6 western Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Wareham Channel.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit, 1 Wareham Common.
Common Redstart - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 3 Soldiers' Road, 2 Wareham Common.
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit.
Firecrest - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Wareham Common.
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Thursday 25th August 2022.

Common Scoter - 1 Wareham Channel was unusual for the location.
Swift - 25+ over Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Knot - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Ruff - 1 west over Christchurch Harbour.
Spotted Redshank - 1 over Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Fields, 3 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 4 Christchurch Harbour, 17 Lytchett Fields, 5 Middlebere.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 14 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere.
Little Stint - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Cattle Egret - 1 north over Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 26 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Channel.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Fields (IoW reintroduction scheme).
Osprey - 3+ Lytchett Fields.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Stanpit.
Montagu's Harrier - 1 probable Portland Bill.
Red Kite - 1 near Cashmoor, 1 Shapwick.
Wryneck - 1 Burnbake.
Citrine Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 
     1 Piddle Valley, 1 Portland Bill.
Common Redstart - 1 Ballard Down, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 
     3 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 5 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Wood Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.

Wryneck, Burnbake © Sarah Matthews.















Common Scoter, Poole Harbour © Clive Hargrave.


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Wednesday 24th August 2022

 Golden Pheasant- 1 adult male at Holton Lee
Avocet - 2 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor
Little Stint - 2 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 3 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Island lagoon, 2 near Morden Bog
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog NNR
Red Kite - 1 Blandford
White-tailed Eagle - released immature around Wareham Channel
Wryneck - 1 briefly at Cogden Beach
Pied Flycatcher - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Easton Portland, 1 Ballard Down, 2 Ashmore, 1 Soldier's Road

Yesterday:
Balearic Shearwater 9 past Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill


Peregrine Falcon, Christchurch Priory  © Clinton Whale


Golden Pheseant, Holton Heath © OTBT Birder


Pied Flycatcher, Lodmoor © Phil Cheeseman


Spoonbill, Brownsea Island © Hamish Murray



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Tuesday 23rd August 2022

 Curlew  - 19 Holes Bay, 92 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 410 Holes Bay, 212 Brands Bay
Knot - 1 Holes Bay, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 2 Sherford Pool
Redshank - 148 Holes Bay
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Wick
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sabine's Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Middlebere, 22 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour, a few over Poole Harbour
Honey Buzzard - 1 Lower Piddle Valley
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Hobby - 1 Rushcombe LNR
Woodlark - 5 Stoborough Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Slepe Heath
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Soldier's Road, 2 Hengistbury
Redstart - 2 Soldier's Road, 1 Stoborough Heath
Whinchat - 2 Hog Hill (Maiden Castle)
Wheatear - 9 Tarrant Rushton

Yesterday:
Balearic Shearwater - 14 past Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 5 Portland
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Monday 22nd August 2022

Avocet - 9 Brownsea Island Lagoon
 Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor
Black-tailed Godwit - 548 Holes Bay
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Grey Phalarope - 1 off Cogden Beach
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley, Wareham
Spotted Redshank - 7 Middlebere
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juvenile off Cogden Beach, 1 Lytchett Fields
Balearic Shearwater - 2 off Cogden Beach
Glossy Ibis - 1 at Knapp Mill Coward's Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 Swineham Point, 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor
Osprey - 5 between mouth of River Piddle and Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel
Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Ballard Gap
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Easton Portland

Yesterday:
Balearic Shearwater - 59 west past Portland Bill
Temminck's Stint 1 Stanpit Marsh
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Sunday 21st August 2022

Cuckoo - 1 immature, Hartland Moor
Whimbrel - 1 Brands Bay
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lower Piddle Valley
Green Sandpiper - 2 Redbridge Quarry, Crossways, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 1 juv from pelagic from Weymouth
Sooty Shearwater - 1 from pelagic from Weymouth
Balearic Shearwater - 2 from pelagic from Weymouth
Arctic Skua - 1 from pelagic from Weymouth
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Mudeford Quay
White-tailed Eagle - 1F released bird, Poole Harbour
Hobby - 1 Poole Harbour
Melodious Warbler - 1 retrap Portland Bird Observatory
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ringed Wyke Farm
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor CP
Redstart - 1F Lambert's Castle
Tree Pipit - 2 ringed Lytchett Bay

Yesterday: -

Hobby - 1 Rempstone Wood, 1 Cheselbourne
Marsh Tit - 1 Rempstone Wood

Osprey, Christchurch Harbour © Clinton Whale


Kingfisher, Radipole RSPB © Neil Bowler

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Saturday 20th August 2022

Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Swineham, 1 Priory Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 1 Warmwell Cress Beds
Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 90 off Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Crouch Hill
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 Priory Marsh
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holton Lee, 1 from Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 7 Portland Bill, 1 Avalanche Road
Redstart - 1 Littlesea Obs
Whinchat - 1 Wyke Down
Tree Pipit - 9 Portland Bill

Yesterday: -

Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 17 off Portland Bill
Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill
Tree Pipit - 5 Long Field, Hengistbury

Pied Flycatcher, Christchurch Harbour © David John Faulkner


Greenshank, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman


Whinchat, Stanpit Marsh © Jackie Smith

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Friday 19th August 2022

Golden Plover - 1 Juv Lytchett Fields
Grey Plover - 1 Lytchett Bay
Whimbrel - 1 Tidmoor Cove
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Southern End, 1 Point Pools, Swineham
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 6 or 7 Poole Harbour, inc 1 Lytchett Bay
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 reintroduced birds over Rockley
Hobby - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Rushcombe LNR
Icterine Warbler - 1 ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Pied Flycatcher - 4 Lodmoor CP, 1 Avalanche Road Hump
Whinchat - 1 South Haven, Studland NNR

Yesterday: -

Manx Shearwater - 1 west off Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 10 west off Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Ferrybridge
Tree Pipit - 4 over Portland Bill

Unspecified Date: - 

Grey Partridge - 45 counted in 4 coveys - Milborne St. Andrew

Pied Wagtail, Holes Bay © Pat Poole 


Knot, Ferrybridge © Phil Cheeseman
 		 

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney

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Thursday 18th August 2022

Grey Plover - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Brands Bay
Ringed Plover - 236 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Bight, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory marsh, 1 South Bingham Reservoir, South End
Black-headed Gull - 600 mostly juvenile at West Bay, off East Beach
Black Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Glossy Ibis - 1 Crouch Hill Scrape
Osprey - 3 or 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 or 2 Wareham Channel
Melodious Warbler - 1 ringed Crown Estate Fields, Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Sandy Point, Stdland
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bird Observatory
Pied Flycatcher - 7 Portland Bird Observatory, 4 Reap Lane, 2 Durlston, 2 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 4 Durlston, 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Wick, 1 PC World Drain
Whinchat - 1 Stoborough Heath
Tree Pipit - 7 over Stanpit Marsh

Sandwich Tern, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 17th August 2022

Grey Partridge - 2 Hartland Moor
Ringed Plover - 148 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Brownsea Island
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 15+ Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Brownsea Island, 1 Ferrybridge
Greenshank - 14 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 1 Rushcombe Brook
Yellow-legged Gull - 4 adults at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Spoonbill - 19 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Hobby - 1 over Wakeham (Portland)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Tolpuddle Manor
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head

Dunlin, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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Tuesday 16th August 2022

Nightjar - 4 ringed last night on Brownsea Island
Cuckoo - 1 juvenile ealy morning at Wareham Common
Ringed Plover - 118 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit,  2 Brand's Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Sanderling - 4 Stanpit, 3 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB on French's Pool
Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory Marsh, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 18 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holton Pools
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 unringed female at Middlebere Channel
Hobby - 1 Long Bredy
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Nursery
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Nursery
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Wareham Common with cattle
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head

Yesterday : a White Stork flew over DWT Brooklands Farm, Forston.

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Monday 15th August 2022

Ringed Plover - 103 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Ferrybridge
Knot - 7 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 flushed by the White-tailed Eagle in the Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1  released bird seem at the Warham Channel and over Hamworthy
Hobby - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Heath, 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 between Herbury & Rodden Hive
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed at Wyke Farm
Whinchat - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

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Sunday 14th August 2022

Balearic Shearwater - 1 west
Cattle Egret - 6 Christchurch Hbr, 2 over West Bexington
White-tailed Eagle - 1 north over Winterborne Kingston (Presumed IoW intro)
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay (both un-ringed)
Grey Plover - 1 sum/plum Brownsea Is.
Little Ringed Plover - 1Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 12 Christchurch Hbr.
Green Sandpiper - 2 over Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Priory Marsh
Woodcock - 2 Lytchett Bay
Swift - 10 Portland Bill
Hobby - 1 through over Ferrybridge
Sand Martin - 90+ St Aldhelm's Hd, 20 Portland Bill, 2 Lytchett Bay
Swallow - 25 Portland Bill, 20+ St Aldhelm's Hd, 6 Lytchett Bay
House Martin - 5 Lytchett Bay, 2 St Aldhelm's Hd,
Willow Warbler - 30 Portland Bill, 20+ Rempstone, 15 Christchurch Hbr.
Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Whitethroat - 10 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Two River meadow embankment Christchurch
AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (Not in public area)
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Studland Village, 5 Edmondsham, 3 Remstone, 3 Talbot Woods, 2 Thorncombe Wood.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Southwell, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Redstart - 2 Rempstone
Whinchat - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Barleycrates Lane
Wheatear - 50 Portland Bill, 8 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Ballard Down
Corn Bunting - 2 Ballard Down (First record in Poole Harbour recording area since 2010)

Spotted Flycatcher Thorncombe © Chris Churchill
















Wheatear - Crouch Hill Stanpit © Clinton Whale


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Saturday 13th August 2022

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sooty Shearwater - 1 West Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 50+ Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Osprey - 1 Middlebere (unringed), 2+ Lytchett Bay
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wimborne St. Giles
Wood Sandpiper - 3 Priory Marsh
Swift - 4 Wyke Down
Sand Martin - 6 St. Aldhelm"s Hd.
Swallow - 25  St. Aldhelm"s Hd.
Whitethroat - 11  St. Aldhelm"s Hd.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill
AQUATIC WARBLER - 2 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Flycatcher - 15 Lambert's castle, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Middlebere
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill and singles Southwell, Wytch, Lambert's Castle, St Aldhelm's, Hardy's Monument, Sweethill, 1 Littlsea (Fleet)
Whinchat - 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 70 Portland Bill, 13 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Marnhull

Coal Tit - Upton Country Park © Nick Hull


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Friday 12th August 2022

Balearic Shearwater - 11 on sea 
White Stork - 29 Sutton Bingham Res. (Knepp intro released birds)
Glossy Ibis - Stanpit Marsh early a.m.
Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea lagoon, 1 over Wareham Train Station
Osprey - 1 Middlebere(un-ringed), 1 Lytchett Bay 
Whimbrel - 4 Ltchett Fiedls RSPB, 4 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit North Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay off stone bench
Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh over South Marsh
Little Tern - 2 off shore off Double Dyke
Black Tern - 1 off shore off Double Dyke
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere Channel seen from Arne RSPB
AQUATIC WARBLER - 1 Lytchett Heath (caught + ringed)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 West Bexington, single at Arne RSPB, Stanpit Marsh, Talbot Heath & Swyre Head
Redstart - 2 Knowl Hill, 1 Lytchett Heath, 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 6 Wesy Bexington, 3 Swyre Head, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Wareham Common


Aquatic Warbler - Lytchett Heath © Nick Hull





























Chiffchaff - Portesham © Janet Grove
























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Thursday 11th August 2022

Quail - 1 calling Gillingham
Balearic Shearwater - 155 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB 
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
White Stork - 2 Over Upton
Glossy Ibis - 1 N Christchurch Hbr.
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Christcchurch Hbr.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Mudeford Quay, 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Tern - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - 160E Portland Bill
Swallow - 100E Portland Bill
Willow Warbler - 15 Stanpit Marsh, 15 Portland Bill, 8 Greenlands Farm
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Durlston CP.
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Greenlands Farm, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Sweethill Portland.
Redstart - 1 Greenlands Farm
Whinchat - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey (CJ7) - Wareham Channel © Nick Hull


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Wednesday 10th August 2022

Avocet - 7 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Ferrybridge, 5 Middlebere, 10 Stanpit Creek
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 4 Sherford Pool
Redshank - 47 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 11 Middlebere, 14 Brownsea Lagoon, 12 Lytchett Fields
Mediterranean Gull - c.1000 Ferrybridge
Yellow-legged Gull - juvenile South Marsh Stanpit
Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea Lagoon
Honey Buzzard - 2 drifted over Piddle Valley
Red Kite - 2 north of  Didlington Farm
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 Arne
Redstart - fem Arne
Yellow Wagtail - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Greenlands Farm
Crossbill - 6 Swanage

Wheatear, Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


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Tuesday 9th August 2022

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Black-tailed Godwit - 219 Holes Bay
Redshank - 97 Holes Bay, 42 Poole Harbour
Glossy Ibis - 1 flew towards Stanpit Marsh
 Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 2 or 3 migrants seen around Poole Harbour
Honey Buzzard - 1 drifting western area of Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - released juvenile through Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Blandford
Garden Warbler - 4 Winspit, 1 Priory Marsh
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Winspit
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Priory Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Tout Quarry Portland
Redstart - 1 Winspit
Wheatear - 1 Wild Woodbury
Tree Pipit - 5 Wild Woodbury


Yesterday:
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lambert's Castle
Black Redstart - 1 Poole Quay

Tree Pipit, Wild Woodbury © Trevor Warrick



Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher,Thorncombe Woods © Trevor Warrick







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Monday 8th August 2022

Grey Partridge - at least 3 coveys at Milborne St Andrew 
Cuckoo - 1 Maiden castle
Stone Curlew - 1 east past Portland Bird Observatory
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland bill
Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill
Roseate Tern - 1 past Christchurch Harbour west
Glossy Ibis - 1 flew north Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 past along west cliffs Portland, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 seen flying south over Monkey Jump roundabout Dorchester
White-tailed Eagle - 1 released immature through Poole Harbour
Wood Warbler - 1 at Ashtree Meadows
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Thornecombe Woods


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Sunday 7th August 2022

Cuckoo - 1 Maiden Castle
 Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 2 Studland
Curlew - 127 Studland
Greenshank - 3 Stanpit Bight
Black Tern - 1 East Marsh Christchurch
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Purple Heron - 1 Coward's Marsh
Garden Warbler - 2 Ringstead
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Ringstead'
Aquatic Warbler - 1 trapped, ringed Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ringstead, 4 Wareham Forest
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Wareham Forest
Wheatear - 2 Ashmore, 1 Goldingstone Heath, 1 Studland, 4 Ringstead

Grey Heron, Iford Weir Christchurch  © Clinton Whale



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Saturday 6th August 2022

Quail - 3 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 10 over Brownsea Island lagoon
White-tailed Eagle -  released birds seem over Littledown (Bournemouth), Piddle Valley, Wareham Channel and Morden Bog
Sedge Warbler - 300 Christchurch Harbour
Willow Warbler - 30 Christchurch Harbour
Pied Flycatcher - 1 West Bexington
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit

Great Spotted Woodpecker, West Moors © Roy Nicklin

 

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Friday 5th August 2022

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, reported throughout day but flushed this evening
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 10 Brownsea Island
Hobby - 1 over Buckhorn Weston
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Linnet, Stanpit © Dave Hill

Little Egret, Stanpit © Dave Hill

Robin, Stanpit © Dave Hill


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Thursday 4th August 2022

Ringed Plover - 64 Ferrybridge, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay, 1 Peveril Point, 6 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 10 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Over Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh
Yellow - legged Gull - 1 Branders Bank Christchurch Harbour
Balearic Shearwater - 6 Off Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery Marsh Meadow Pool
Honey Buzzard - 1 Over Easton Portland
Willow Warbler - 50 Durlston CP, 30 Wytch Farm, 7 Wick Hegisbury
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler - 1 Langton Matravers, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Spotted Flycatcher - 4 Wytch Farm
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery Marsh Meadow Pool

Yesterday: Roseate Tern - Mudeford Quay

Honey Buzzard - Dorset undisclosed location ©Mike Coleman



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