Thursday 15th June 2023

Eider - 2 Poole Bay
Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Avocet - 1 at Silverlake is first for site
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake
Osprey - 1 Longham Lakes
Firecrest - 3 Upton CP

Yesterday : 3 Quail singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield in the evening.

Common Tern, Lodmoor RSPB © Malcolm Dowty

Wednesday 14th June 2023

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 over Cheselbourne
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Piddle Estuary, Swineham

Yesterday: - 

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Blackberry Point, Stanpit Marsh
Cuckoo - 1 Wick

Mallard family, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Whitethroat, Ham Common © Daniel Nash

White-tailed Eagle & Marsh Harrier, Swineham © David Camp

 

Tuesday 13th June 2023

Black Swan - 3 Ferrybridge
Cuckoo - 1 Winterbourne Monkton
Sanderling - 10 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 Holton Heath
Redwing - 2 sth over Ferrybridge

Sand Martin fledglings, Lodmoor RSPB ©Kerrie Hillebrandt

Roseate Tern, Abbotsbury Swannery © Steve Groves

Oystercatcher, Poole Harbour © Martin Shaw

Monday 12th June 2023

PB Brent Goose - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Probable, Whitepits, Hengistbury Head
Green Sandpiper - 1 Sherford Pools, Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 Charborough Park
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Wild Woodbury

Greenfinch, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Viv Keene

Yellowhammer, Winfrith & Tadnoll NR, DWT © Phil Cheeseman

 

Sunday 11th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still in Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 15 Hengistbury Head, 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday : At least 7 Puffins at Dancing Ledge and a Quail at Tarrant Keyneston.

Peregrine, Christchurch © Clinton Whale

 

Saturday 10th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still in Christchurch Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 Coombe Heath (Arne RSPB)
Whimbrel - 2 Portland Bill, 1 over Mudeford Quay
Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Ferrybridge
Black Tern - 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Wimborne Minster

Red-necked Phalarope, Ferrybridge © Steve Carey

Red-necked Phalarope, Ferrybridge © Steve Carey

 

Friday 9th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 still at Stanpit Marsh
Ringed Plover - 1 at Christchurch Harbour on nest is the first breeding attempt for site since 1983
Red Kite - 1 over Litton Cheney, 1 over Lytchett Bay, 1 Puddletown, 1 Briantspuddle

Yesterday: a  Red-backed Shrike was at Durlston CP in the evening - not reported today.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Thursday 8th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Quail - 1 singing near Tarrant Rushton
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 female on Hengistbury Head

Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 2 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 7 Ferrybridge, 5 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Carey
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Heath
Osprey - 1 Morden Bog (male 374 from 2021 Poole Harbour release)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Toller Porcorum

 

Little Egret, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

 

Wednesday 7th June 2023

Eider - 2 near Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 2 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 3 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 45 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 2 over Bardolf Farm, 1 near Fontwell Magna
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Tolpuddle
Tree Pipit - 4 Morden Bog
Serin - 1 briefly in a Southwell garden (Portland)

 

Turnstone, Ferrybridge © Pete Coe

Tuesday 6th June 2023

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 on Christchurch Harbour Sandspit

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge

Sanderling - 23 Ferrybridge
Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Ferrybridge
Knot - 1 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 Lytchett Minster
Nightingale - 1 near Stour Row (west of Shaftesbury)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 in a garden at Hinton St Mary
Serin - 1 in PBO garden for third day but mobile

Starlings, Woodville © John Bishop

 

Monday 5th June 2023

Cuckoo - 2Stanpit Marsh, 1 Wick
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Ferrybridge
Ringed Plover - 20 Ferrybridge
Turnstone - 4 Ferrybridgre
Sanderling - 24 Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham area
Tawny Owl - 2 Poole Area
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog, 2 Tolpuddle Manor
Firecrest - 1 Morden Bog
Tree Pipit - 2 Morden Bog
Crossbill - 2 Morden Bog

 

Rook, Lulworth Cove © Peter Moore

Little Terns, Ferrybridge © Graham Jaggard

Little Egret, Arne RSPB © Trevor Parsons

Sunday 4th June 2023

Cuckoo - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Morden Bog, 1 South of Longham Lakes
Grey Plover - 14 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Black Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham area
Tawny Owl - 2 Poole Area
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Culverwell, 1 Tolpuddle Manor
Crossbill - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: - 

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Hoopoe - 1 between Sydling St.Nicholas & Cerne Abbas

Peregrine, Bournemouth Town Centre © David Wareham

Saturday 3rd June 2023

Grey Partridge - 5 St. Aldhem's Head
Swift - 50+ over Longham Lakes
Cuckoo - 1 over South Lake, Longham Lakes, 1 over Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Red Kite - 8 Sth of Shillingstone, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wimborne Town Centre
Nightingale sp - 1 East of Avalanche Rd, Scrub Sth of Hump

Yesterday: -

Nightjar - 3 Dunyeats Heath
Gull Flock - c2350 off Hooks Sands

 

Common Terns, Brownsea Lagoon © Pete Davies

Friday 2nd June 2023

Mandarin family, Stour Meadows, Blandford © Sharon Towning

Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Mandarin - 1f & 4 young, Stour Meadows, Blandford
Cuckoo - 1f Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 again French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 again Bridport, 1 Lytchett Bay
Golden Oriole - 1 nth over Abbotsbury
Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grey-headed Wagtail - 1 again Horse Paddock, Reap Lane

 

Thursday 1st June 2023

Mandarin - 2 River Stour, Blandford
Little Gull - 1 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
ManxShearwater - 1 offshore,  from Bridging CAmp
Night Heron - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Arne Moors
Red Kite - 1 Broadmayne, 1 Bridport
Hoopoe - 1 Dancing Ledge
Golden Oriole - 1 Nth over Top Fields, Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Bridging Camp, THe Fleet
Grey-headed Wagtail - 1 Horse Paddock, Reap Lane
Corn Bunting - 1 Bridging Camp, The Fleet

 

Grey-headed Wagtail, Reap Lane, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

Wednesday 31st May 2023

Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Common Scoter - 13 Hengisbury Head

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Little Tern - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 1 Hengisbury Head

Arctic Skua - 1 Hengisbury Head

Red Kite - 7 Wareham Piddle Valley, 2 Morden Bog, 1 Nine Barrow Down

White Tailed Eagle - 1 Morden Bog

Hobby 2 Slepe Heath, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Sandbanks

Whinchat - 1 Portland

Yesterday:  IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF - 1 reported by stone bench Ballard Down

Grey Heron -©Clinton Whale

Tuesday 30th May 2023

Grey Plover - 2 Chesil opposite Camp rd, 2 Standpit Marsh

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Knot - 1 Chesil opposite Camp Rd

Black Tern - 2 Christchurch Harbour heading North from Riversmeet Meadow

SQUACCO HERON - 1 near Wool Manor bridge then later seen flying West along the river Frome 

Red Kite - 4 over Fleetsbridge heading towards Canford Heath, 1 Puddletown, 1 Hurn, over the Bakers Arms roundabout

Garden Warbler - 1 Hengisbury Head Nursery

Yesterday - 1 Wheatear at St Aldhelms Head

 

YouTube screen shot of Osprey's CJ7 & 022
feeding their 2 newly hatched chicks
©Birds of Poole Harbour

Wheatear - St Aldhelms Head ©Colin Chainey

Monday 29th May 2023

Common Scoter - 1 Kimmeridge flying East

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Canford School

Ringed Plover - 70 Ferrybridge, 5 Lytchett Fields

Little Ringed Plover -  2  Stilt Pool Swineham, 2 Tidmoor Point

Bar-tailed Godwit - 28 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT, 2 Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 6 Tidmoor Point The Fleet

Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Black Tern - 1 Wareham Channel Birds of Poole Harbour Safari Cruise

Manx Shearwater - 71 Past Kimmeridge

Red Kite - 3 over Bridport Golf Club, 2 over Parley, 1 Wild Woodbury DWT

White Tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham Golf Course

Hobby - 3 from Birds of Poole Harbour Safari Cruise, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow wagtail - 1 Portland

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 2 Past Portland Bill, 1 Great skua past Portland Bill

Spotted Flycatcher - Bog Lane Greenspace 
© Garry Hayman

Sunday 28th May 2023

Grey Partridge - 4 St Aldhelms Head

Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Puffin - 1 Dancing Ledge

Red Kite - 7 Over Carey Secret Gardens, 1 Hardy's Monument, over Fleetsbridge

White Tailed Eagle - 1 over Wareham

Hawfinch - 2 Portland Bird Observatory & then at Culverwell

Common Whitethroat - St Aldhelms Head © Garry Hayman

Shoveler - Stanpit Marsh ©Clinton Whale

Saturday 27th May 2023

Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge

Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill 

Manx Shearwater - 26 E past Kimmeridge

Red Kite - 3 over Fleetsbridge, Poole

Yesterday (26th):

Sanderling - 30+ Abbotsbury Swannery

Puffin, Dancing Ledge © Colin Chainey

Friday 26th May 2023

Grey Plover - 7 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Brownsea

Ringed Plover - 38 Christchurch Harbour, 26 Ferrybridge

Little Ringed Plover - 2 over Hengistbury Head

Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge

Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge, 3 Christchurch Harbour

Turnstone - 3 Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 17 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Ferrybridge

Dunlin - 18 Christchurch Harbour, 8 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 7 Ringstead Bay

Greenshank - 3 Christchurch Harbour

Osprey - 1 SE at Bridging Camp/The Fleet then E over Portland Harbour

Spotted Flycatcher - 10+ Portland, 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lambert's Castle

Corn Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Head

Knot, Ferrybridge, 24th May © Pete Coe

Thursday 25th May 2023

Turtle Dove - 1 Portland (at Culverwell, Helen's Fields & Chesil Equestrian Centre)

Sanderling - 7 Charmouth Beach

Spoonbill - 1 E Hengistbury Head

Cattle Egret - 1 N Christchurch Harbour

Whinchat - 8+ Portland, 1 Ballard Down

 

Yesterday (24th):

Eider - 2 still Shell Bay, Studland

Puffin - 5 from Purbeck Puffin & Seabird Cruise

Cattle Egret - 1 roosted Brownsea Lagoon

Common Sandpiper, Stanpit © Scott Usher

 

Wednesday 24th May 2023

Avocet - 3 Brownsea, 1 Tidmoor

Knot - 2 Ferrybridge

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 briefly Stanpit

Sanderling - 9 Ferrybridge

Greenshank - 3 Herbury, 1 Brownsea

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea this am, then Middlebere pm

Great White Egret - 3 N over Wareham Common this evening

Whinchat - 10 Portland, 1 Acton

Tuesday 23rd May 2023.

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit.
Eider - 2 Studland Bay.
Swift - 37+ St Aldhelms Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Charminster, 1+ Christchurch Harbour.
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit, 1 Pirates' Cove.
Ruff - 1 male in partial breeding plumage at Longham Lakes.
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Poole Harbour, 12 Pirates' Cove.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge.
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit.
Avocet - 2 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 1 Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Didlington.
Honey Buzzard - 1 N over Swanage.
Goshawk - 1 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour.
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 12 Christchurch Harbour, 13+ St Aldhelms Head.
Whinchat - 1 Didlington.

Brent Goose, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Monday 22nd May 2023.

Swift - 224 Christchurch Harbour, 96 St Aldhelms Head, 151 Studland (South Haven).
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit, 1 Winspit.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 5 Ferrybridge.
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge.
Red Kite - 5+ Bridport.
Marsh Harrier - 1 St Aldhelms Head.
Hoopoe - 1 Worth Matravers car park.
Hobby - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland (Easton).
Redstart - 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Flycatcher - 95+ Christchurch Harbour, 200+ Portland Bill, 12+ Portland Castle, 

      21+ St Aldhelms Head, 3 Studland (South Haven).

Sunday 21st May 2023

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Slepe Heath

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh

 Red Kite - 2 over Bridport, 1 Langton Herring, 20 over Abbotsbury, 1 Crossways, 1 Bhompston, 

1 Canford Heath

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Hydes Heath, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hydes Heath

Spotted Flycatcher - minimum 23 from vis mig at St Aldhelm's Head

Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Sand Martin, Silverlake © Alan Membury

Saturday 20th May 2023

Nightjar - 3 or 4 Dunyeats Heath

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake

Red Kite - 56 between East Bexington and Abbotsbury, 17 Poole Harbour, 12 Harcombe 

Western Subalpine Warbler - Female trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory

Firecrest - 2 singing in Delph Wood Poole

Friday 19th May 2023

 Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Haremere Wood, Coombe Heath NR, 1 Moors Valley, 1 Lytchett Bay

Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Island NT Lagoon, 7 Stanpit

Forster's Tern - 1st winter Brownsea Island NT Lagoon

Red Kite - 1West Bay, 1 Woodville

Hobby - 1 east of Lower Bockhampton

Bee-eater - 2 flew south over Portland Bill

Black Redstart - 1 Ferrybridge

Yesterday: 2 Eider off Shell Bay, 2 Balearic Shearwater past Portland Bill

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Reed Warbler, Moors Valley CP © John Bishop

Thursday 18th May 2023

 Quail - 1 Beaminster

Nightjar - At least 3 Black Down

Cuckoo - 1 Tolpuddle

Grey Plover - 10 Brands Bay,6 Stanpit

Forster's Tern - 1st winter Brownsea Island NT Lagoon

Black Kite (escape) - Poole Park

Red Kite - 2 Swyre

Storm Petrel - 1 trapped overnight Portland

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Holes Bay, 1 over Brownsea Island

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Swyre, 2 Stanpit

Blue-headed Wagtail - Swineham GPs

Sanderling, Cogden  © Helen Wood

Nightjar, Black Down  Helen Wood (17th)

Tawny Owlet, Ballard Down © Brian Edge

Wednesday 17th May 2023.

Swift - 52 Christchurch Harbour.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick.
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit, 1 The Fleet.
Ruff - 1 male, Abbotsbury Swannery.
Knot - 3 Brownsea Island.
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 100 The Fleet.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 reported Poole Harbour.
Arctic Tern - 1 north over Stanpit.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor.
Osprey - 1 East over Stanpit.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Pallington lakes, 1 Shaftesbury.
Hoopoe - 1 Stanpit (Johnstone Rd), 1 West Bexington.
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Thorncombe woods.

Treecreeper, Thorncombe woods © Helen Wood.

Meadow Pipit, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Tuesday 16th May 2023.

Swift - 36 Christchurch Harbour, 105 Poole Harbour, 23 St Aldhelm's Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 16 Shell Bay.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Poole Harbour.
Sandwich Tern - 56 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red Kite - 4 Bridport, 1 Charlton Down, 5+ Christchurch Harbour, 1 Coombe Heath, 21+ Ryall, 1 West Bay.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Coombe Heath.
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Stanpit.
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Portland Bill.
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arne, 2 Portland Bill, 1-2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stour Valley LNR.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit.
Hawfinch - 1 Portland Bill.

Woodlark, Silverlake © Alan Membury.