Saturday 8th April 2023

 Garganey - 4 off the Chesil at Tidmoor and away north, 5 Lodmoor, 1 Swineham Point
Cuckoo - 1 Oakers Bog, 1 Muscliffe Bournemouth
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Baltic Gull - Finnish-ringed adult (CA6W) on West Bexington beach am
Arctic Tern - 5 east at Chesil Cove
Black-crowned night Heron - At least 2 on River Stour at Iford, 
Osprey - 1 north Lytchett Matravers, 1 over Weston Portland, 3-4 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 Eype, 2 Holt
White -tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne
Hobby - 1 over Dorchester
Hoopoe - 3 Portland 
Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne area, 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 obelisk Portland
Redstart - male Portland heights area
Serin - 1 over top fields Portland Bill
Cirl Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Black-crowned night Heron, Iford River Stour  © Scott Usher


Dunnock, Woodville © John Bishop


Chiffchaff, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale



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Friday 7th April 2023

 Garganey - 4 (2 drakes ) Lodmoor
Kittiwake - 1 found dead Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island NT Lagoon
Osprey - 1 over Weymouth, 1 over Bakers Arms roundabout
Red Kite - 1 Bardolf Farm Puddletown, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 over Bakers Arms roundabout
Short-eared Owl - 1 Tarrant Keyneston
Hoopoe - 1 Weston, Portland
Ring Ouzel - 2 Prison Moat Portland
Pied Flycatcher - male Portland Castle
Black Redstart - 1 Kinson Common LNR
Redstart - 1 Portland Hospital grounds, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hengistbury Head

Peregrine, Bournemouth  © David Wareham


Sheldrake, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Osprey, Bakers Arms Roundabout © Tony Furnell


Common Redstart, Hengistbury Head © Michael Gibbons


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Thursday 6th April 2023

 Garganey - 8 Lodmoor, 1 Swineham GPs
Alpine Swift - 1 over Peveril Point Swanage
Crane - 1 seen flying over Lodmoor and Abbotsbury, 2 Todber, 
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 4 Lytchett Bay
Osprey - 1 over Verne Common, Portland, 1 Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Durlston
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Bardolf Farm Puddletown
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Athelhampton (white bridge over River Piddle)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head

Crane, Todber  © John Howell


Garganey, Lodmoor © Derek Fowler


Chiffchaff, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher



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Wednesday 5th April 2023

Garganey - 8 at Lodmoor this pm, 1 drk at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Chesil
Puffin - 1 off Dancing Ledge
Red-throated Diver - 15 E off Chesil
Osprey - singles at Abbotsbury Swannery, over Abbotsbury village and West Bexington
Hoopoe - 1 still briefly at 08:20 only at Quarr Farm, Harman's Cross (then no further sign), with another briefly this am on Portland on N side of Tradecroft Ind Est.
 
Yesterday (4th April)
Grasshopper Warbler  - 1 Portland


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Tuesday 4th April 2023

Common Scoter - 120 E past Chesil Beach
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 E past Chesil Beach
Red-throated Diver - 2 E past Chesil Beach
Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 1 NE over Bournemouth Gardens
Red Kite - singles noted today at Bryanston, Charlton Down, Cogden & Milborne St Andrew
White-tailed Eagle - away from Poole Harbour, 2 were noted over Charminster
Hoopoe - 1 still at Quarr Farm, Harman's Cross
Redstart - singles on Portland at Culverwell & Verne
Pied Flycatcher - male at Weymouth Golf Course
 
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Monday 3rd April 2023

Bar-tailed Godwit - 36 E past Chesil Beach
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Chesil Beach
Osprey - 1 on The Fleet at Ferrybridge and then NE over Weymouth
Red Kite - 5 over Christchurch Priory
Hoopoe - 1 still at Quarr Farm, Harman's Cross
Black Redstart - 2 Charminster
 
Blue Tit, Woodville © John Bishop

 
Peregrine, Bournemouth © David Wareham

Crossbill, Wareham Forest © Malcolm Dowty




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Sunday 2nd April 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 still Stanpit
Golden Plover - c350 Eggardon Hill
Common Tern - 2 Brownsea
Sandwich Tern - 25 Brownsea, 6 Butterstreet Cove
Cattle Egret - 5 Lytchett Bay
Osprey - 1 N over Weymouth & Broadwey
Red Kite - 1 Broadmayne, 1 Middlebere
Hoopoe - 1 Harman's Cross at Quarr Farm (for 2nd day), take footpath east from Haycrafts Lane
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit

Sandwich Tern, Butterstreet Cove © Steve Mansfield

Water Rail, Bridport © Maurice Budden


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-tailed Tit, Tuckton © Dave Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday 1st April 2023

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes on North Lake
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB on Sherford Pool
Kittiwake - 1 still at Longham Lakes
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Morden Bog
White-tailed Eagle - 4 over Shillingstone Hill, 2 Poole Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 3 Morden Bog
Black Redstart -  1 Charlton Down, 1 still at Weymouth (Charlestown)

Rock Pipit, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Un-ringed Osprey, Morden Bog © Garry Hayman


 

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Friday 31st March 2023

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Hengistbury sandspit
Kittiwake - 1 still at Longham Lakes
Little Gull - 3 Ferrybridge
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes
Arctic Tern - 1 Weymouth Bay this evening
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour: male 022, un-ringed female and now female CJ7seen together on BoPH nest platform, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Willow Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 still at Weymouth (Charlestown)
Siskin - 4 on garden feeder at Crossways
Brambling - 1 Longham Lakes on west side of South Lake, 1 on garden feeder at Crossways

Pale-bellied Brent Geese, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Osprey, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher


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Thursday 30th March 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 8 Ferrybridge, 4 Littlesea (The Fleet)
Cattle Egret - 1 Puddletown (Bardolf Farm)
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Swineham
Black Redstart - 1 still in Weymouth (Charlestown)

Wheatear, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Peregrine, Christchurch Prory © David Camp

 

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Wednesday 29th March 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 1 over Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 2 Ferrybridge
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 1 Swineham
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour (on BoPH webcam - 022 and un-ringed female mating & nest building)
Sand Martin - 70 Lodmoor RSPB, 50 Silverlake
Swallow - 2 Silverlake
Sedge Warbler - 1 Longham Lakes on causeway
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)

Wheatear, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

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Tuesday 28th March 2023

Garganey - 2 east past West Bexington and Abbotsbury Swannery
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head
Golden Plover - c200 Eggardon Hill
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil Cove
Cattle Egret - 2 along R. Frome near Wareham, 2 by R. Avon from Christchurch bypass
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Swineham
Hoopoe - 1 Poole, in a private garden
Hobby - 1 over Swineham
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Moors Valley CP, by the lake. This is the earliest ever recorded in Dorset.
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)

Yesterday : A Short-eared Owl, 5 Firecrest and a Brambling at Portland Bill. Also on Portland, the hybid Hooded Crow at Fancy's Farm.

Hoopoe, Poole © Mary Cann

Stonechat, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale



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Monday 27th March 2023

Garganey - 1 drake still at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes on South Lake
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Kittiwake - 1 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 35 Abbotsbury, 1 Shillingstone
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Osprey - 4 Poole Harbour including 022 and un-ringed female
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Willow Warbler - 1 trapped & ringed at Littlesea (The Fleet), 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Swineham, 1 Upton
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Weymouth (Charlestown)
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Priory Marsh (Christchurch Harbour)
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Brambling - 3 South Haven

Dartford Warbler © Clinton Whale


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Sunday 26th March 2023

Garganey - pair at Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape, 1 drake at Swineham on Stilt Pool
Mandarin Duck - 7 Holmebridge, 4 Sadborow (near Thorncombe)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Kittiwake - 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cattle Egret - 2 Shillingstone
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour (022 and un-ringed female), 1 over Longham Lakes
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Hambledon Hill, 2 Keysworth, 2 Trigon Hill
Willow Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Wick
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Charlestown), 1 Charlton Down
Water Pipit - 1 Hampreston Fields
Brambling - 1 Longham Lakes

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Grey Plover, Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

 

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Saturday 25th March 2023.

Garganey - 1 Swineham.
Common Scoter - 25 Portland Bill.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill.
Common Gull - 6 past Hengistbury Head.
Kittiwake - 17 Silverlake is an unusual record.
Red-throated Diver - 8 Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 3 Wareham Channel (Rock Lea viewpoint).
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Lytchett Bay/Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 9 left Poole Harbour roosts this morning; 1+ Swineham.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere.
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wareham Common.
Merlin - 1 Swineham.
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor.
Swallow - 1 Swineham.
Sand Martin - 1 Hatch Pond, 4 Swineham.
White Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill.
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill.
Wheatear - 2 Hengistbury sandspit.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill.
Willow Warbler - 1 Merley.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland Bill.

Peregrine Falcon, Christchurch priory © Clinton Whale


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Friday 24th March 2023.

Purple Sandpiper - 22 Hengistbury sandspit.
Puffin - 1 Durlston CP.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 west over Corfe Castle.
Marsh Harrier - 2+ Radipole Lake.
Swallow - 2+ Longham Lakes.
Sand Martin - c40 Longham Lakes.
Wheatear - 2 Hengistbury (Barn Field).
Willow Warbler - 2 Hengistbury (Wick).
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Thorncombe woods.

Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury sandspit © Clinton Whale


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Thursday 23rd March 2023

Purple Sandpiper - 15 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 1 Holes Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Shillingstone, 1 over Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1 Swineham Point
Hobby - 1 over Ferndown Common NR
Willow Warbler - 1 Wick
Brambling - 1 Thorncombe Wood on feeders at café

Chiffchaff, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Reed Bunting, yesterday at Tuckton © Dave Hill

 

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Wednesday 22nd March 2023.

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes.
Eider - 1 Portland Harbour.
Grey Plover - 1 over Ferrybridge.
Mediterranean Gull - 200+ Longham Lakes.
Cattle Egret - c.20 east of Abbotsbury village.
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland (The Verne).
Goldcrest - 20+ Hengistbury Head.
Firecrest - 2 Portland (Pennsylvania/Church Ope Cove).

Gadwall, Christchurch Harbour © Clinton Whale

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Tuesday 21st March 2023

 Alpine Swift - 1 probable off the sea at Portland Bill
Golden Plover - c300 North of Bere Regis, c80 Monkey's Jump Dorchester
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengisbury Head groynes
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Bay RSPB, 2 North of A35 on the River Avon
White-tailed Eagle - 5 Poole Harbour 
Hooded Crow (or Hybrid) - 1 The Nothe Weymouth
Swallow - 1 Radipole RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
House Martin - 1 Sherborne, 1 Radiplo RSPB
Willow Warbler - 1 Trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Ob's
Black Redstart - 1 Kimmerage Bay, 1 Weston Portland

Purple Sandpiper - Hengisbury Head  ©Clinton Whale


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Monday 20th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Common Scoter - 11 of Hengisbury Head
Alpine Swift - 1 over Bournemouth Gardens nr the Town Hall
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Osprey - 1 Over Wareham Causeway 
White Tailed Eagle - 1 Gad Cliff 
Sand Martin - 11 Radipole RSPB 
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Wheatear - 1 Peveril Point, 1 Kimmeridge
Water Pipit - Radipole RSPB North Screen

Common Snipe - Hengisbury Head - ©Clinton Whale



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Sunday 19th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes 
Garganey - 2 drakes on River Avon at Burton
Alpine Swift - 2 Over Riversmeet Stanpit Marsh / Christchurch Priory and Oxford point Bournemouth,  1 Churchfield Court Poole
Black- necked Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach Studland
ROSS'S GULL - 1 Briefly at Lodmoor RSPB this afternoon
Golden Plover - 8 Charlton Down allotments
Spoonbill - 6 Ower Quay, 4 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 20+ Portesham, 4 nr Woodsford, 2 Swineham  GP
Great White Egret - 1 Piddle Valley flood fields
Red Kite - 3 over Swanage flying North, 1 Steeple Down, Stanpit Marsh, 1 Winterbourne Stickland
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Morden, 1 Steeple Down, 1 Winterbourrne 
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Sand Martin - c60 Swineham GP
Swallow - 1 over Wareham Common, 1 over Rempstone Heath 

Garganey - River Avon Burton ©Garry Hayman






Great Crested Grebe - Hatch Pond ©Clinton Whale




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Saturday 18th March 2023

Whooper Swan - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Mandarin Duck - 2 Swineham, 1 Longham Lakes
Grey Partridge -  7 St Aldhelms Head
Alpine Swift - 6 Christchurch / Stanpit , 1 Swanage, 1 Bournemouth
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Tidmoor Point, 1 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Purple Sandpiper - 17 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Spotted Redshank - 2 Rock Lea View Point Lytchett Bay RSPB
Caspian Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Yellow - legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 6 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Bittern - 1 poss 2 leaving Radipole RSPB at Dusk, 1 Booming at Swinham GP
Great White Egret - 1 Hampreston Fields
Osprey - 1 Over Portland 
Red Kite - 1 Wogret, 1 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise, 1 Herbury The Fleet
White Tailed Eagle - 2 from Birds of Poole Harbour Cruise 
Willow Warbler  - 1 Langton Matravers  Lime kiln
Black Redstart - 1 Ladysmead Gardens Easton Portland
Dipper - 1 River Lim Lyme Regis
Water Pipit - 1 Longham Lakes & flew West
Snow Bunting - 1 heard calling St Aldhelms Pier Bottom


Alpine Swift - Christchurch ©Scott Usher






Alpine Swift - Christchurch   ©Scott Usher


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Friday 17th March 2023

Mandarin Duck - 2 Swineham, 1 Longham Lakes
Garganey - 5 Past Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Alpine Swift - 1 North side of Lodmoor RSPB over houses
Common Crane - 1 Swineham GP and then Middlebere flying East
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Middle beach Studland
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Approach Field Lytchetts Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 7 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White Tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB
Willow Warbler - 1 Langton Matravers Lime Kiln
Black Redstart - 1 Easton Portland, 1 Tilly Whim Durlston CP, 1 West Bay, 1 Charlestown
Wheatear - 5 Greenland Farm, 5 Ferrybridge, 5 Sunnyside Farm Ridge, 4 Lyme Regis Cobb, 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Scotland Farm Norden
White Wagtail - 2 Longham Lakes


Ringed Plover - Hegisbury Head © Clinton Whale





Garganey & Teal - Stanpit Marsh© Scott Usher




White Tailed Eagle - 1 Arne RSPB © Clive Hargrave




Pied & White Wagtails - Longham Lakes  © Ron Poulter


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Thursday 16th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Newton's Cove
Mandarin - 1 drake Longham Lakes
Eider - 4 off Pilot's Point
Red-throated Diver - 1 East Durlston CP.
Black-necked Grebe - 1sum/plum age Longham Lake
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over west Christchurch Hbr. (07:35hrs)
Merlin - 1 Durlston CP.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 6 off Pilot's Point 
Sand Martin - 28 Portland Bill, 3 Radipole Lake RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 male Durlston CP (Tilly Whim), 1 Portland Bill, 1 fem Easton
Wheatear - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Down Farm

Wheatear - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


















Dunlin - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


























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Wednesday 15th March 2023

Mandarin - 1 drake Longham Lake
Cattle Egret - 2 in field behind Worgret Manor viewed from Bog Lane, 2 flew up the Piddle Valley.
Spoonbill - 5 Wytch Channel
Red Kite - 2 Wareham Common, 2 Wimborne St. Giles, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Knowlton Church, 1 Cranborne Chase, 1 Wyke Down (with yellow wing tags)
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Hartland Moor
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne RSPB, Hartland Moor, Wareham Channel
Goshawk - 1 over Lytchett Bay
Golden Plover - c200 Charlton Down
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay (from Rock Lea VP)
Iceland Gull - 1, 2CY west over Portland Bill
Sand Martin - 6 Longham Lakes, 3 Wareham Common, 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 over Hog Hill
Black Redstart - 1 male QuinetQ Compound Portland Bill, 1 fem/type Ladymead Close Portland
Wheatear - c50 Portland Bill, 10 West Lexington, 5 Ferrybridge, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Peveril Pt, 1 Longham Lakes.
Fieldfare - c80 Wyke Down
Brambling - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Bunting - Wareham © Clive Hargrave

Meadow Pipit - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Linnet - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale






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Tuesday 14th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 with Db Brent Stanpit Marsh
Mandarin - 3 Alners Gorse, 2 Sherford Bridge, 1 drake Longham Lakes
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 2 off Bronze Castle
Slavonian Grebe - 3 NW of Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Swineham (on the Curlews Scrape)
White-tailed Eagle - 2 soaring over Arne RSPB, 1 over Christchurch Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Wild Woodbury
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Swineham GP
Purple Sandpiper - 14 Hengistbury Hd (on Sandspit)
Green Sandpiper - 3 Bere Regis Cressbeds, 1 Maiden Newton
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay (from Rock Lea VP)
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Sand Martin - 2 Longhaam Lakes, 2 Silverlake, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
White Wagtail - 1Stanpit Marsh (on Crouch Hill), 1 Longham Lakes
Wheatear - 1 Portland Bill
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Monday 13th March 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 over Portland Hbr, 1 west off Hengistbury Hd.
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Portland Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Lytchett Bay, 1 soaring over Swyer Head.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Tarrant Kingston
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Hd (on the sandspit)
Whimbrel - 1 west past Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Sand Martin - 4 over Swineham GP.


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Shelduck _ Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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