Monday 15th May 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham Point
Garganey - 1 drake at Swineham on Stilt Pool, 1 over West Bexington
Cuckoo - 1 again calling at Wick
Sanderling - 15 Shell Bay
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea View
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Swineham Point
Red Kite - 1 over Dorchester, 1 or 2 over Thorncombe Wood
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Thorncombe Wood
Firecrest - 5 Thorncombe Wood
Hawfinch - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO

Ringed Plover, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

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Sunday 14th May 2023

Garganey - 2 over Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Arne RSPB (Hyde's Heath)
Crane - 3 over Woodville
Wood Sandpiper - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 12 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 1 at Shipstal Point Arne RSPB
SHORT-TOED EAGLE - a probable seen over Walkfield (near Highcliffe) mid-morning heading west
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Whinchat - 1 Portland Heights
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Corn Bunting - Barleycrates Lane (Portland)

Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Reed Warbler, Radipole Lake RSPB © Helen Wood

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Saturday 13th May 2023

Garganey - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Eider - 2 Poole Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 calling Butterstret Cove, The Fleet
Manx Shearwater - 4 off St. Aldhem's Head
Purple Heron - 1 Lodmoor RSPB until 1840 when flew high E.

Spotted Flycatcher, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman


Whitethroat, Lodmoor RSPB © Maurice Whitney

 

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Friday 12th May 2023

Eider - 2 Shell Bay
Sanderling - 15 off Pilot's Point, Shell Bay
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Red Kite - 1 over Parkstone Heights, 1 over Bridport
Hoopoe  - 1 north of Crossways Garage in field towards on Woodsford
Hobby - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hampreston WMs, 1 Studland Heath
MOLTONI'S WARBLER - 1 trapped & ringed at PBO and released in Obs Quarry this morning, but not seen after 5:30pm

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Moltoni's Warbler, Portland Bill © Pete Coe

 

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Thursday 11th May 2023

Red Kite - 1 over the Wareham Channel
Osprey - 2 over the Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 on the Arne RSPB shore along the Wareham Channel
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/w again on Brownsea Lagoon
Cuckoo - 1 Wick reedbed, 1 heard from Stanpit Marsh
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Stanpit Marsh
Corn Bunting - 1 Higher Charminster

Chaffinch - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale











Corn Bunting - Higher Charminster © Derek Fowler


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Wednesday 10th May 2023

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Is. on shingle beach from birdboat
White-tailed Eagle - 2 seen from Shag Looe Spit
Hobby - 1 distant from Swineham Pt.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham scrapes
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/winter again on Brownsea Lagoon
Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Hooded Crow - 1 Portland Bill seen flying north along the West Cliff
Corn Bunting - 1 Ferrybridge

Egyptian Vulture - 1 reported as possibly this species north over Blandford 11:00hrs


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Tuesday 9th May 2023

Common Scoter - 30 Hengistbury Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd, 1 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Fairmile Christchurch, 1 over Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 1 in of sea at Studland, 1 over Hydes Heath
Common Crane - 3 over Charminster
Forster's Tern - 1 1st/winter again on Brownsea Lagoon
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill (in Helen's Field)
Cuckoo - 1 at Wick, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Thorncombe Wood
Serin - 1 Portland Bill
Corn Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Warbler - Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Long-tailed Tit - Sturminster Newton © John Bishop







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Monday 8th May 2023

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Forster's Tern - 1 again Brownsea Island Lagoon

Peregrine - Bournemouth © David Wareham


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Sunday 7th May 2023

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Garganey - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham
Swift - 14 over Wimbourne
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Puddletown Forest, 1 Swineham
Crane - 1 Flew west over Lewell nr Dorchester
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Stilt Pols Swineham
Little Stint - 2 Peveril point late evening
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes seen on both North & South lake
Pomarine Skua - 1 East past Portland Bill
Great Northern diver - 1 past Chesil cove
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT
Red Kite - 1 over Longham Lakes
White tailed Eagle  - 2 over Church Knowle early afternoon
Hobby - 3 Longham Lakes, 3 Pallington Lakes, 1 over Hatch Pond
Golden Oriole  - 1 Heard calling Whitchurch Canonicorum
Wood warbler - 1 Broadcroft quarry Butterfly NR Portland
Garden Warbler - 3 Pallington Lakes

Garden warbler - Pallington Lakes © Rebecca Porter




Stock Dove - Hengisbury Head © Clinton whale



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Saturday 6th May 2023

Cuckoo - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Southover nr Tolpuddle, 1 Longham Lakes
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Jerry's Point Poole Harbour
Whimbrel - 31 Lodmoor RSPB
Knot - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 1 still on South lake of Lonagham Lakes
Black Tern - 2 Ferrybridge  flying East off Chesil Beach
Storm Petrel - 1 Flying East off St Aldhelms Head
Hobby - 2 Sherford Bridge Wareham Forest
Yellow Wagtail - 1 poss 2 at Abbotsbury Swannery

Brent Goose - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


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Friday 5th May 2023

Garganey - 1 Drake on Stilt Pool Swineham
Alpine Swift - 1 flying South over Shillingstone
Swift - 6 over Peveril Point NR Swanage, 6 over Lyme Regis
Golden Plover - 1 Silverlake
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham, 2 Todber
Purple Sandpiper - 11 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTERS TERN - 1 Brownsea Lagoon am & pm and off Bournemouth mid afternoon
Great Skua - 1 flying East off Est Bay
Pomarine Skua - 6 past Portland Bill, 3 past St Aldhelms Head, 1 past West Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 East of St Aldhelms Head
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes
Firecrest - 2 North of Hatch Pond Poole
Redstart - 2 Morden Bog
Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog

Common Whitethroat - Hemgisbury Head
© Clinton Whale




Reed Bunting - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale







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Thursday 4th May 2023

Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTERS TERN - 1 Double Dykes Hengisbury Head Am then back on Brownsea Island Lagoon Pm
Pomarine Skua - 4 East off Chesil Cove,  4 flew past Charmouth, 2 Past Portland Bill East Cliffs
Arctic Skua - 1 Off Portland Bill
Red-throated Diver - 1 West off St Aldhelms Head
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Past Portland Bill
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour incl the return of 2021 translocated 2yo female 372
Honey Buzzard - 1 in off the sea at Portland Bill and continued North
Red Kite - 2 Sandford, 1 Bridport, 1 Bere Regis
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Hoopoe - 1 in a private garden Kimmeridge
Golden Oriole - 1 male seen flying towards Powerstock Common from Eggardon Hill
Wheatear - 1 Woodville

Wheatear - Woodville    ©John Bishop


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Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Avocet - 1 E past West Bay, 1 Littlesea, The Fleet
Bar-tailed Godwit - 25 Littlesea
Sanderling - 7 Ferrybridge 
Purple Sandpiper - 14 Lyme Regis (The Cobb)
Little Gull - Longham Lakes (South Lake)
FORSTER'S TERN - mid-am at Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint, then back on Brownsea Lagoon early pm
Osprey - 1 N over Lanehouse, Weymouth
Hoopoe - Hengistbury Head this am but mobile
Golden Oriole - fem/imm male N over PBO at 10:30am


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Tuesday 2nd May 2023

Nightjar - 2 heard last night Rempstone Heath
Whimbrel - 45 off Chesil Beach
FORSTER'S TERN - again on Brownsea Lagoon midday at least
Hoopoe - 1 Peveril Point, Swanage this evening in wooded area, 1 Swyre in private garden briefly this am
Garden Warbler - 25 Hengistbury Head
Ring Ouzel - male still Portland in fields by Weston Street
Serin - males singing PBO this am, and Southwell (private garden) this pm
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Monday 1st May 2023

Garganey - drake briefly Holme Lane GP this am
Whimbrel - 23 Lytchett Bay, 3 Lodmoor, 2 West Bay
Little Gull - ad Lytchett Bay, 2 Upton CP
Yellow-legged Gull - sub-ad West Bay
FORSTER’S TERN - still Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Stilt Pool, Swineham
Black Kite - Coombe Valley 10:05am then E towards Osmington
Ring Ouzel - male still Weston Street, Portland


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Sunday 30th April 2023

Cuckoo - Hartland Moor, Hengistbury Head, Morden Bog, Rempstone
Greenshank - 2 Todber
FORSTER’S TERN - 1stW again Brownsea Lagoon
Arctic Skua - 1 E past St Aldhem’s Head
Hoopoe - 1 Christchurch briefly in garden at King’s Avenue
Wood Warbler - 1 singing Littlesea
Spotted Flycatcher - Charmouth & Woodsford
Bluethroat - female (subspecies unknown) Abbotsbury Swannery near Helen Hide but elusive. The Swannery is open 10am-5pm, last entry 4pm, please follow on-site instructions if visiting.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Littlesea
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhem's Head
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Saturday 29th April 2023

Garganey - 1female Lodmoor
Cuckoo - 1 Tolpuddle, 1 Nether Cerne, 1 Longham Lakes
Turtle Dove - 1 Weston Portland
Golden Plover - 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Dotterel - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Whimbrel - 7 Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 4 Hatch Pond, 3 Peveril Point Swanage
Forster's Tern - 1st winter again on Brownsea Island Lagoon
Hoopoe - 1 St Aldhelm's Head area
Hobby = Longham Lakes
Reed Warbler - 8 Holes Bay
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 St Aldhelm's Head area
Garden Warbler - 1 Longham Lakes
Ring Ouzel - Male and female Weston Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Bluethroat - 1 Abbotsbury
Nightingale - 1 possible Lodmoor, 1 Alners Gorse

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Friday 28th April 2023

Garganey - 1 female Lodmoor
Swift - 1 Lodmoor, 1 over Chickerell army camp, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 13 Christchurch Harbour, 11 Poole Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill
Black-winged Stilt - 2 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 19 Lytchett Bay, 10 Brands Bay, 12 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peverill Point Swanage
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor
Little Gull - 1st winter Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Forster's Tern - 1 again at Shipstal Point Arne RSPB and later at Brownsea Island Lagoon
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 flew over Sturminster Marshall GPs, 1 Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Tidmoor
Garden Warbler - 1 Tidmoor, 1 Stanpit
Ring Ouzel - 1 Tidmoor
Common Redstart - 1 Longham Lakes
Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP

Black-winged Stilt, Lodmoor  © David Wareham


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Thursday 27th April 2023

 Velvet Scoter - 1 passed Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 Thorncombe Wood area, 1 Swineham
Black-winged Stilt - 2 Lodmoor
Knot - 1 Lodmoor
Common Sandpiper - 2 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Hatch Pond
Little Gull - 1 2nd winter Abbotsbury Swannery
Black Tern - 1 Hengistbury
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 east St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hengistbury
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Osprey - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Poole Harbour (CJ7 laid 3rd egg)
Wood Warbler - 1 Ladymead, Easton Portland

From yesterday; Hoopoe at Worth Matravers

Hoopoe, Worth Matravers  © Roy Cowley


Great Tit nest, Canford Boxes © Roger Peart


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Wednesday 26th April 2023

Cuckoo - 1 Wick
 Black-winged Stilt - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Avocet - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Bar-tailed Godwit - 50 Brownsea Lagoon, 11 Christchurch Harbour
Black-tailed Godwit - 150 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 3 Arne, 16 through Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 3 Pallington Lakes
Green Sandpiper - 1 briefly at Luckfield Lake Broadmayne
Forster's Tern - seen today at Lytchett Bay, Wareham Channel and Brownsea Island
Arctic Skua - 5 east from Hengistbury
Red-throated Diver - 1 east from Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 east from Hengistbury
Great Northern Diver - 1 west from Hengistbury, 1 Poole Harbour
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 Charlborough Park
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Hobby - 1 over Shaftesbury, 1 Poole Harbour
Woodlark - 3 singing on heath near Hethfelton
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Avalanche Road hump, Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Studland NNR


Black-winged Stilts, Lodmoor  © Joe Kaplonek


Nuthatch nest, Canford Boxes © Roger Peart



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Tuesday 25th April 2023.

Black-winged Stilt - 2 Lodmoor.
Whimbrel - 2 Ferrybridge, 2 Lodmoor, 2 past Hengistbury Head, 5-6 calls over Merley after dark.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Silverlake.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Poole Harbour (Lytchett Bay, then Brownsea).
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Chesil Beach.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne, 2 Fontmell Magna.
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Swanage (Herston) (also present yesterday).
Common Redstart - 2 Durlston CP, 2+ Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Portland, 1 Swanage (Herston).
Cirl Bunting - 2 Portland Bill.

Goldfinch, Woodville © John Bishop.
















Red-rumped Swallow, Lytchett Bay © Richard Stephenson.


Forster's Tern, Poole Harbour © Clive Hargrave.

Black-winged Stilt, Lodmoor RSPB © David Wareham.

Woodchat Shrike, Swanage © Trevor Warrick.



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Monday 24th April 2023.

Black-winged Stilt - 2 Lodmoor.
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields.
Whimbrel - 18 Lodmoor.
Common Sandpiper - 5 Brownsea Island, 2 Peveril Point.
ELEGANT TERN - 1 Lodmoor briefly before flying off into Weymouth Bay and did not return.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 still Poole Harbour (Lytchett Bay, then later on Brownsea Lagoon).
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Matravers.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland (Suckthumb Quarry).

Elegant Tern, Lodmoor © Geoff Barlow.













Wheatear, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

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Sunday 23rd April 2023.

Golden Plover - 38 Eggardon Hill.
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 4 past Hengistbury Head, 6 Stanpit, 2 The Fleet (Moonfleet).
Common Sandpiper - 2 The Fleet (Moonfleet), 2 Poole Quay.
Sanderling - 7 Brownsea Island, 8 past Hengistbury Head.
Purple Sandpiper - c.15 Hengistbury sandspit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Hinton Parva.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island, 3 Lytchett Bay.
Mediterranean Gull - c.100 past Hengistbury Head.
Arctic Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Little Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Poole Harbour (Lytchett Bay, then Brownsea).
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Pomarine Skua - 1-2 Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Hengistbury Head, 3 past Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - c.100 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne.
Red Kite - 1 over Arne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Portland Bill.
Hobby - 1 Arne.
Swift - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Cuckoo - 3 Allen valley, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Rempstone Heath.
Redstart - 2 Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Radipole Lake.
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Portland (Avalanche Rd).
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Allen valley, 2 Portland Bill.
Willow Warbler - c.150 Portland Bill.
Crossbill - 4 Rempstone Heath.

Common Whitethroat, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.















Whinchat, Radipole Lake © Steve Mansfield.

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Saturday 22nd April 2023.

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swineham.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Whimbrel - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Ferrybridge.
Mediterranean Gull - 300+ past Hengistbury Head.
Arctic Skua - 4 Portland Bill.
Pomarine Skua - 1 Chesil Beach, 1 Portland Bill.
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 10 Portland Bill.
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 Iford.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Arne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Holme water meadows.
Cuckoo - 1 Allen valley, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Holme water meadows, 1 Slepe Heath.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Redstart - 1 Allen valley, 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Hartland Moor, 2 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland, 1 Worth Matravers.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head.


Black-crowned Night Heron, Iford © Clinton Whale.















Grey Heron, Iford © Clinton Whale















Chiffchaff, West Moors © Roy Nicklin.

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Friday 21st April 2023

Blue-winged Teal - 1 probable at Abbotsbury Swannery
Cuckoo - 1 Holt Heath, 1 Brownsea Island
Little Ringed Plover - 4 Swineham, 2 Silverlake, 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 7 past Hengistbury Head, 3 Ferrybridge
Ruff - 1 Swineham (Stilt Pool)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury
Little Gull - 6 in Lyme Bay 3 miles south of Portland Bill
Arctic Tern - 3 past Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 1 in Lyme Bay 3 miles south of Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 still at Iford on bank of River Stour
Osprey - 1 over PBO, Poole Harbour - first egg laid by CJ7 this evening
Red Kite - 1 over Blacknor (Portland)
Merlin - 1 over Hengistbury
Hobby - 1 over Hengistbury
Short-eared Owl - 1 Hengistbury
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour (HHC)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 PBO, 1 Rushcombe LNR, 1 Studland
Common Redstart - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 2+ Portland Bill
Whinchat - 5 Barleycrates Lane (Portland), 2+ Portland Bill, 1 Wyke Regis, 1 Wick
White Wagtail - 1 Barleycrates Lane (Portland)
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Swineham

Black-crowned Night Heron, Iford © Mike Foote

 
 
 
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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

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