Thursday 20th April 2023

Garganey - drake at Swineham (Stilt Pool)
Mandarin Duck - drake still at Longham Lakes
Swift - seen at Longham Lakes and Cogden Beach (2)
Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Swineham (Lower Piddle scrape), 1 Cogden Beach
Whimbrel - 10 Hengistbury Head, 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 5 Holes Bay, 3 Arne RSPB (Shipstal Point), 1 Silverlake (East Lake bund)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Longham Lakes
Green Sandpiper - 1 still at Swineham (Stilt scrape)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 still at Iford on bank of River Stour
Osprey - 1 Charmouth, 1 over Weymouth
Red Kite - 1 over Longham Lakes, 1 over Silverlake
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cogden (on margin of field below Cogden NT)
Wood Warbler - 1 Charmouth
Nightingale - 1 heard at Longham Lakes
Ring Ouzel - 2 Godlingston Hill, 1 north west Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Charmouth
Common Redstart - 3 Charmouth, 1 Cogden Beach
Whinchat - 1 Charmouth, 1 Cogden Beach
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Cirl Bunting - 1 still at Portland Bill
 
Woodchat Shrike, Cogden © Paul Gregory

 
 

Mandarin Duck, Longham Lakes © Robert Fielding

Reed Warbler, Longham Lakes © Robert Fielding


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Wednesday 19th April 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham
Bar-tailed Godwit - 300+ past Portland Bill
Whimbrel - 50+ past Portland Bill, 2 again at Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point
Green Sandpier - 1 Swineham
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island lagoon
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 still at Iford on bank of River Stour
Red Kite - 1 Broadwey, 1 Morden Bog
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 3 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female Portland Bill
Common Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Whinchat - 3 Portland Bill (Top Fields), 1 Hengistbury Head (Barn Field), 1 Arne RSPB (Hyde's Heath)
Serin - 2 at Portland Bill
Cirl Bunting - 1 still at Portland Bill
 
Black-crowned Night Heron, Iford © David Cuddon

Leucistic Blackbird, Uploders © Maurice Budden

Black-crowned Night Heron, Iford © Clinton Whale

 
 



 
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Tuesday 18th April 2023

Mandarin Duck - 3 drakes at Sadborow
Garganey - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Goosander - 2 Silverlake
Black-winged Stilt - 1 Christchurch Harbour early morning only
Golden Plover - c40 Eggardon Hill
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Sandspit
Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay, 1 past Hengistbury
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 Iford on bank of River Stour
Red Kite - 3 Swanage, 2 Blandford, 1 Sopley Common, 1 Askerswell, 1 Portland (Easton), 1 Lytchett Bay, 1+ Abbotsbury, 1 Charlborough Park
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill (Top Fields), 1 Martinstown (over Rainbarrow Farm)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland (Barleycrates Lane)
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Abbotsbury
Redstart - 1 Abbotsbury
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Stanpit, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Serin - 2 Portland Bill (West Cliff)
Cirl Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Sandwich & Little Tern, Ferrybridge © Clive Hargrave


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Monday 17th April 2023

Garganey - 1 drake Lodmoor RSPB
Common Scoter - 200 past Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 East Ferrybridge
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 River Stour Iford.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 3 over Wareham Forest, 3 over Lytchett Bay/Upton
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Arne RSPB and over Lytchett Bay/Upton
Osprey - 2 Poole Hbr, 2 Wyke Regis, 1 over Bournemouth
Avocet - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 20 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 78 Ferrybridge, 14 Lytchett Bay, 5 hengistbury Hd, 2 Charmouth
Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Turtle Dove - 2 Avalanche Rd.
Cuckoo - 1 Swineham, 1 Parley Common
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill (top fields), 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Hoopoe - 1 Days Park Swanage, 1 Southweel/Avalanche Rd Portland
Sand Martin - 870 Swineham Pt.
Swallow - 205 Swineham Pt.
Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Reap Lane Portland
Black Redstart - 1 fem. Southwell
Ring Ouzel - 8 Avalanche Rd, 3 Culverwell
Grasshopper Warbler - 30 Portland Bill, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Durlston CP, 2+ Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wareham Common, 1 Tidmoor.
Sedge Warbler - 3 Swineham Pt.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Willow Warbler - 100 Hengistbury Hd, 20 Tidmoor.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP.

Hoopoe Days Park Swanage © Phyl England

Common Tern - Lodmoor © Will Bown

Whimbrel - Lodmoor © Clinton Whale


Little Tern - Ferrybridge © Caroline Hebditch



















Black-crowned Night Heron - Iford © Robert Fielding

















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Sunday 16th April 2023

Garganey  - 3 drake/2 duck Lodmoor RSPB
Red-throated Diver - 5 past Chesil
Manx Shearwater - 4 past Chesil
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 Iford Bridge
Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Osprey - 1 Holton Lee, 1 over Easton, 1 over Lodmoor RSPB p.m.
Hobby - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 8 Ferrybridge, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Chesil, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay (1 sum/plumage)
Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Little Tern - 4 Ferrybridge
Common Tern - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Hoopoe - 1 Weston Street
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Portland Bill, 1 over Chesil
Redstart - 2 Southwell garden, 1 Weston
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland Bill, 1+ Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh (Crouch Hill)
Wood Warbler - 1 Southwell garden
Willow Warbler - 90 Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 1 1 male Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ballard Down (Ulwell Water Works)
Ring Ouzel - 1 briefly Turlin Moor
Cirl Bunting - 2 Portland Bill

Cirl Bunting - Portland Bill © Chris Walker

Lesser Whitethroat - Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

Linnet - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale


























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Saturday 15th April 2023

Garganey - 3 Lodmoor RSPB (1M + 2F)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 Iford (120m up from Bridge)
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB, 1 Briantspuddle, 1 Christchurch Hbr a.m, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Osprey - 2 Poole Hbr
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 West Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes
Turtle Dove - 1 over Easton Portland
Cuckoo - 1 Tincleton
Swift - 1 Easton Portland
Hoopoe - 1 Weston Street
Swallow - 9 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 St Aldhelm's Hd.
House Martin - 6 Longham Lakes, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Wareham Water Meadows
Nightingale - 1 Tincleton
Black Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.
Common Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Hd.
Whitethroat - 3 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 PCWorld (Currys) drain Poole
Serin - 1 Portland Bill Obs
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Black-crowned Night Heron - Iford © Clinton Whale

Cetti's Warbler - Rodden Hive © Paul Harris

Grey Plover - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale






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Friday 14th April 2023

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Tidmoor
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 Tidmoor
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 Iford
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 over Portland Bill
Whimbrel - 7 passed Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 2 dark-phase passed Hengistbury Hd.
Hoopoe - 1 still Weston Street Portland
Sand Martin - 14 Lytchett Bay
Swallow - 12 Wyke Down, 4 Tidmoor
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill
Common Redstart - 1 Wyke Down
Wheatear - 12 Tidmoor, 4 Hartland Stud, 7 Wyke Down
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Portland Bill, 1 singing Wyke Down
Pied Flycatcher - 1 male Stanpit Marsh, 1 male Lodmoor RSPB
Ring Ouzel - 1 Sweethill Portland.

Pied Flycatcher - Stanpit Marsh © Mike Gibbons


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Thursday 13th April 2023

Mandarin Duck - 1 Longham Lakes
Garganey - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Swift - 1 Dancing Ledge
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Silverake
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengisbury Head
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 River Stour 100, up river from Iford Bridge
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour, 1 over Wyke Regis
White Tailed Eagle - 1 over Hamm Common
Short Eared Owl -1 Top fields Portland Bill
Hoopoe - 1 Weston Street Portland
Ring Ouzel - 1 near Sweet farm Portland
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 Dancing Ledge
Redstart - 1 Radipole RSPB, 1 no dogs field Hengisbury Head

Pied Flycatcher - Lodmoor RSPB   ©Derek Fowler






Dunnock - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale


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Wednesday 12th April 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Eider - 2 off Middle Beach Studland
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 4 Mudeford Quay
Purple Sandpiper - 6 Hengisbury Head
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holme Lane GP
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Kittiwake - 1 off Kimmeridge
Manx Shearwater - 1 off Kimmeridge 
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 River Stour 120m up river from Iford Bridge
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Woodlark - 2 Holme Lane GP, 1 Clouds Hill NT
Brambling - 1 in a private garden Keysworth

Willow Warbler - Woodville ©John Bishop




Common Whitethroat - Iford Golf Course ©Clinton Whale 






Black-crowned Night heron - River Stour Iford 
©Clinton Whale


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Tuesday 11th April 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Arne Moors
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere Channel
Arctic Skua - 1 Flew east off Kimmeridge
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 River Stour 100m  up river from Iford Bridge
Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Lytchett Bay over Rock Lea VP
White Tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay / Turlin, 1 Cogden
Hoopoe - 1 Weston Street Portland
Marsh Tit - 1 Wild Woodbury Bere Regis
Sedge Warbler - 2 Swineham
Common Whitethroat - 1 Maiden Castle
Ring Ouzel - Watery Lane Portland
Serin - 1 flew over Durlston CP
Corn Bunting - 4 ridge above Upwey, 1 Kimmeridge 



Dartford Warbler - Stoborough Heath ©Garry Hayman

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Monday 10th April 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham
Garganey - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Swineham
Eider - 5 Off Hengisbury Head drifting towards the Solent
Velvet Scoter - 3 West Bexington flying East, 1 West Bay
Common Scoter - 57 Off Hengisbury Head,  14 Off Chesil Ferrybridge, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Golden Plover - 60 Eggerdon Hill
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Caspian Gull - 3 Longham Lakes
Little Tern - 1 Hamm Beach Portland Harbour
Arctic Tern 7 Hamm Beach Portland Harbour, 2 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 Iford Bournemouth on bank of the River Stour
Cattle Egret - 17 Abbotsbury
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour
Red Kite - Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay
White Tailed Eagle - Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay
Hoopoe - 1 Weston Street / Coombefield Portland
Hobby - 1 East Morden
House Martin - 3 Durlston CP, 2 Peveril Point
Grasshopper Warbler -1 Portland Obs
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Peveril Point
Black Redstart - 1 female Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Reap Lane Portland, 1 female Peveril Point, 1 Manswood
Wheatear - 80 Portland, 7 Standpit Marsh, 2 Bardolf Farm

Yesterday: Serin  - 1 Portland Bill


Wren - Tuckton ©Dave Hill








Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale



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Sunday 9th April 2023

 Garganey - 7 Lodmoor
Common Crane - 1 flew north over Weston Portland
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 3 past Chesil Cove
Little Tern - 2 off Chesil Beach
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor, 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Black -crowned Night Heron - 2 River Stour Iford
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Eype/ Bridport, 1 Arne RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Corfe Castle
Hoopoe - 1 Verne High Angle Battery Portland
Garden Warbler - 1 Holes Bay at PC World Drain
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill


Little Ringed Plover, Lodmoor ©Steven Carey




Garganey, Lodmoor  © Steven Carey








Sandwich Tern, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Black-crowned Night Heron, Iford River Stour © Michael Gibbons


Male Great Spotted Woodpecker, Woodville © John Bishop

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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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