Thursday 29th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Little Gull - 2 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 over Puddletown Bypass
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Roebury Lane, Christchurch, 1 Morden Bog
Tree pipit - 1 Morden Bog
Crossbill - 1 Morden Bog

Sanderling, Hengistbury Head © Scott Usher


Canada Geese, Lodmoor RSPB © Paul McAuliffe


Cuckoo, Arne RSPB © Mick Church

 

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Wednesday 28th May 2025

Teal - 9 (3 pairs) Lytchett Fields RSPB 
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Forest, 1 Sturminster Marshall, 1 Corfe Mullen
White-tailed Eagle -1 over Warbarrow Bay
Hobby - 2 over Wareham Forest
Common Crane - 1 over Dorchester Water Meadows p.m. 
Little Ringed Plover - 1 still on the Stilt Pools at Swineham
Sanderling - 16 Ferrybridge, 6 Hengistbury Hd, 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 2 on Arne RSPB shoreline, 1 Ferrybrudge
Little Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon p.m.
Little Tern - 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Wareham Forest

Common Tern - Brownsea Lagoon © Phil Bentley


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Tuesday 27th May 2025

Common Scoter - 11 off Hengistbury Hd.
Storm Petrel - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Great White Egret - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Hobby - 1 in off sea Hengistbury Hd.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 on Stilt Pools Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 19 Hengistbury Hd.
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 2, 2cy Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 2cy Hengistbury Hd.

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Monday 26th May 2025

Common Scoter - 14 East Hengistbury Hd.
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past west Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 over Wareham Forest
Osprey - 1 Poole Hbr.
Hobby - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 over Swineham GP.
Little Gull - 1 2cy off Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Holton Heath
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Sunday 25th May 2025

Common Scoter - 32 Porland Bill, 14 Hengistbury Hd.
Manx Shearwater - c50 Christchurch & Poole bay
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere Channel
Red Kite - 1 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel
Merlin 1 female pver Brownsea lagoon
Hobby - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Wareham Forest
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 2 1st/sum Abbotsbury Swannery
Redstart - 1 fem Roebury Lane Christchurch.

Meadow Pipit - Morden Bog © Mark Taylor





















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Saturday 24th May 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 2 over Wick Fields
Sanderling - 5 Brownsea Lagoon
Roseate Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 2 past Hengistbury Head
Manx Shearwater - 3 Peveril Point
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB, view from west end of Southdown Avenue
Red Kite - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath
Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
 
Hobby, Morden Bog © Robert Fielding

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell

 
 
Great Spotted Woodpecker,West Moors © Roy Nicklin
 
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Friday 23rd May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Arne RSPB
Sanderling - 6 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Little Gull - 2 2cy at Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog

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Thursday 22nd May 2025

Sanderling - 2 Littlesea (The Fleet)
Whimbrel - 3 Littlesea (The Fleet), 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 1cy over R.Avon at Coward's Marsh
White Stork - 1 SW over Piddle Valley near Trigon this afternoon
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool this morning
Montagu's Harrier -  1 female NW over Morden village this afternoon
Black Kite - 1 west over Clifton Maybank around midday
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 over Turbary Common
Osprey - 1st egg hatched at Careys Secret Garden nest site
Bee-eater - 1 Durlston CP at Castle and Gully area but mobile
Wryneck - 1 Morden Bog singing and seen between Decoy Pond and old cottage this morning
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
 
Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp

Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp

Bee-eater, Durlston CP © David Camp



 
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Wednesday 21st May 2025

Knot - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Sanderling - 11 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Greenshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Glossy Ibis - 1  still at Lodmoor RSPB on Postbox Pool
Great White Egret - 1 mouth of R. Piddle
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB this morning
Hobby - 4 Morden Bog
 
Little Gull, Lodmoor RSPB © Garry Hayman

Common Tern, Lodmoor RSPB © Garry Hayman

 
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Tuesday 20th May 2025

Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Black-tailed Godwit - c.200 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Lodmoor
Little Gull - 1st summer off Brownsea Island
Glossy Ibis - still on Postbox pool Lodmoor
 Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor
Red Kite - c. 9 Bridport area, 2 over Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle -  3-4 Poole Harbour

Yesterday:
2 Black Tern off Hengistbury Head

Glossy Ibis, Lodmoor © Helen Wood


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Monday 19th May 2025

Little Gull - 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery and Sandbanks
Arctic Skua - 1 off St Aldhelm's Head
 Glossy Ibis - 1 still present at Lodmoor behind post box pool
Spoonbill - 1 flew west over the Fleet
Osprey - 1 from Abbotsbury Beach
White-tailed Eagle - G466 over Shipstal Point, G463 over Corfe Castle
Little Owl - 1 Marnhull
Hoopoe - 1 in a garden at Walsingham Dene, Littledown
Hobby - 4 Poole Harbour area
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Sunday 18th May 2025

 Avocet - 2 Lodmoor
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 3 The Fleet, 4 Brands Bay, 4 Stanpit
Glossy Ibis - 1 Lodmoor north end
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Osprey - 1 over Moordown
Hobby - 1 over Rempstone
Nightingale - probable heard briefly at Cogden




Yellowhammer, Hardy's Monument  © Helen Wood

Great Northern Diver, West Bexington,  © Mike Morse


Spotted Flycatcher, St Aldhelm's Head © Peter Moore


Avocet Lodmoor © Mary Stevens

Corn Bunting, St Aldhelm © Purbeck Pilgrim 


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Saturday 17th May 2025

 Whimbrel - 19 Kimmeridge Beach, 5 Christchurch Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Glossy Ibis -- 1 Post Box Pool Lodmoor
Night Heron - 1 reported on Bridehead Lake Littlebredy
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Honey Buzzard - 1 in off Chesil over Tidmoor
Hooded Crow - 1 Wallsend Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Kimmeridge

Stonechat , Swyre  © Helen Wood

Spotted Flycatcher Reap Lane Portland  © Mary Stevens


Rock Pipit, Portland Bill  © Mary Stevens


Reed Bunting, Swyre  © Helen Wood



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Friday 16th May 2025

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit.
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Weymouth.
Red Kite - 3 West Bay.
Hobby - 1 Corfe Mullen.

White-tailed Eagle, Weymouth © Paul Harris

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Thursday 15th May 2025

Nightjar - 1 Hartland Moor
Cuckoo - 2  Hartland Moor
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Swineham
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Creek
Whimbrel - 8 Stanpit Creek
Caspian Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 2 Brownsea Island, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 1 Giggers Island
White-tailed Eagle - 1 West Bay
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Portland Bill and Portland Heights this afternoon
Red Kite - 27 over Bridport heading W/NW, 4 over Poole Harbour, 3 West Bay, 1 over Corfe Mullen
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 over Weymouth

Shelduck, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 
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Wednesday 14th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Coombe Heath.
Grey Plover - 2 Swineham.
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit, 1 Coombe Heath.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Little Gull - 1 Stanpit.
White Stork - 1 over Hengistbury Head.
Red Kite - 4 Bothenhampton, 4+ Dorchester (Purlands Farm), 3 Eype, 1 Coombe Heath, 
  1 Dudsbury, 1 West Bay.
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 Portland, quite mobile.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ Coombe Heath.
Firecrest - 1 Coombe Heath.

Grey Heron, Stanpit © Clinton Whale



















Whitethroat, Lynch Cove © Mary Stevens




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Tuesday 13th May 2025

Cuckoo - 2+ Wareham Forest, 1 Arne, 1 nr Thorncombe Wood.
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Swineham.
Black Tern - 2 past Portland Bill.
Cattle Egret - 1 southern Portland.
Spoonbill - 3 off Arne.
Osprey - 1 Arne.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Morden Bog, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Goshawk - 1 Arne.
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 Holmebridge, 1 Poundbury, 1 Wareham Common.
Hobby - 3 Wareham Forest, 1 Studland, 1 Woodsford.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ Morden Bog, 1 Thorncombe Wood.

Reed Warbler, Swineham © Garry Hayman















Sedge Warbler, Swineham © Garry Hayman















Redstart © Garry Hayman

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Monday 12th May 2025

Garganey - 1 Stanpit.
Mandarin Duck - 2 Blandford.
Cuckoo - 1 nr Thorncombe Wood.
Sanderling - 15 Shell Bay.
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Lyme Regis (The Cobb).
Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 1 Poole Harbour mouth.
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill.
Hobby - 1 Studland.
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Stanpit.

Late news: Osprey over Charmouth yesterday.

Whimbrel, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

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Sunday 11th May 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Woodsford
Cuckoo - 1 Wytch Farm Norden, 1 Woodsford
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stilt Pools Swineham
Manx Shearwater - 35 flew east past St Aldhelms Head
Spoonbill - 5 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 flew East West Bexington
Cattle Egret - 12 Bog Lane Stoborough
Great White Egret - 1 Bog Lane Stoborough
Osprey - 1 Middlebere female 3H9
Red Kite - 2 Blandford, 1 Poole Harbour
White tailed Eagle - 1 over Compton Abbas Airfield
Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Child Okeford
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wytch Farm Norden

Yesterday:
Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Brownsea Island 

Juv Stonechat - Tyneham © Mary Stevens



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Saturday 10th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 Woodsford, 1 Cowards Marsh, 1 Hurn
Grey Plover - 2 Hengisbury Head
Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Holloway Dock Hengisbury Head
Purple Sandpiper - 9 The Cobb Lyme Regis
Common Sandpiper - 2 Hengisbury Head, 2 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 1 Cowards Marsh
Great white Egret - 1 Cowards Marsh and flew north
Red Kite - 3 Bridport
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh on Gorse near pylon
Hobby -  1 Avon Valley

Song Thrush - 1 Lodmoor RSPB  ©  Mary Stevens




Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor  RSPB  ©  Mary Stevens



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Friday 9th May 2025

Mandarin Duck  - 2 River Piddle Wareham Common
Cuckoo - 1 West Compton
Ringed Plover - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Little Gull - 3 West Bexington
Arctic Skua - 2 Pale Morph past Hengisbury Head
Osprey - 1 Bridport flew north
Red Kite - 4 Bradbury Rings, 2 Bridport
Short eared Owl - 1 Arne Moor viewed from Slepe Heath
Red footed Falcon - 1 female Cowards Marsh west of clockhouse Stream
Hobby - 2 Far end of wareham Common, 2 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh
Garden Warbler - 1 Bradbury Rings
Whitethroat - 30 Bradbury Rings



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Thursday 8th May 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Woodsford
White Fronted Goose - 1 Wareham Channel off Swineham Point
Goosander - 1 River Piddle Carey
Grey Plover - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Ringed Plover - 22 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Ringed Plover 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Stilt Pools Swineham
Whimbrel - 42 through Stanpit Marsh but 12 settled, 11 Holes Bay SW sector, 6 Brands Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Greenshank - 6 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Holes Bay by the stone bench
Little Gull - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengisbury Head
Red Kite - 1 over Brands Bay
Hobby - over Little Sea Studland
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Cowards Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Mapperton Wildlands
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow Wagtail - 4 Standpit Marsh

Pied Wagtail - Woodville ©  John Bishop




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Wednesday 7th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 still Swineham Pt., then flew
Cuckoo - 1 Wick Fields
Crane - 2 flew south from Hurn
Grey Plover - 2 still Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - c13 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Arne RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Purple Sandpiper - 13 still The Cobb, Lyme Regis
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 1st summer Abbotsbury Swannery
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour area
Red Kite - 4 Sixpenny Handley, 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Bridport, 1 East Stoke
White-tailed Eagle - 1 from Swineham Point
Hobby - 4 north end Radipole RSPB, 3 Swineham Point, 1 Holton Lee, 1 Bridport
Wood Warbler - 1 Badbury Rings
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 1 Stunted Oaks, 1 North Scrubs, 1 Wick (all Stanpit atea) 1 Arne RSPB
Corn Bunting - 2 nr. The Chapel, St. Aldhem's Head

Swallow, Charmouth © Pam Parsons


Great Crested Grebe, Creekmoor Ponds © Allan Hansford


Hobby, Lodmoor RSPB © Mary Stevens

 

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Tuesday 6th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 Swineham Point
Grey Plover - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 15 Brands Bay, 10 Holes Bay, 7 Ferrybridge, 5 Stanpit Marsh
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Houseboats, Studland
Little Gull - 1 1st summer, Houseboats, Studland
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 nth over South Haven
Hobby - 6 Radipole RSPB, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Poole Harbour Entrance
Wheatear - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Ferrybridge
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit Marsh

 
Corn Bunting, Osmington White Horse © Pen Mitchell


Dartford Warbler, Morden Bog © Sue Ketteridge

Kestrel, Southbourne © William Hicks

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Monday 5th May 2025

Russian White-fronted Goose - 1 Swineham GPs
Cuckoo - 1 Morden Bog
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Castle
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Fields
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red kite - 4 West Bay
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Marsh Tit - 1 Kilwood DWT
House Martin - 50 in flock, east of Lower Bockhampton

Great White Egret & Cattle Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman


Linnet, nr. Martin Down © Tim Balmer


Whimbrel, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

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Sunday 4th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 nr. Martin Down, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 7 Holes Bay, 5 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Green Sandpiper - 1 Solent Meads Car Park
Little Gull - 1 2cy Lytchett Bay
Puffin - 2 distant from Dancing Ledge
Red Kite - 2 Bridport, 1 Merley, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Marsh Tit - 1 High Woods, east of Badbury Rings
Hobby - 1 in off sea at Portland Bill
Firecrest - 3 Bloxworth Woods
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Portland Castle
Nightingale - 2 Alner's Gorse
Wheatear - 1 Stanpit
Tree Pipit - 1 over The Hump, Portland

Common Tern, Arne RSPB © Mick Church


Little Gull, Lytchett Bay © Peter John Corbin


Hooded Crow, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

 

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Saturday 3rd May 2025

Goosander - 1 drake Silverlake
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.
Manx Shearwater - 200 off Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay p.m, 1 Silverlake
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Purwell, 1 over Ferrybridge
Red Kite - 10 over Moordown, 6 over Bakers Arms, 4 over Lytchett Way Upton, 4 over Ballard Down, 3 over Central Poole Harbour.
Hobby - 2 Swineham Pt, 2 Hydes Heath
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 in the Wareham Channel
Greenshank 2 Brownsea Is.
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Arctic Shua - 4 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Bramble Bush Bay, 1 first summer Brownsea Is.
Swift - 60 Portland Bill, 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Hooded Crow - 1 Reap Lane Portland

Whimbrel Lytchett Fields RSPB © Janet Panter



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Friday 2nd May 2025

Pochard - 1 drake Swineham GP.
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel
White Stork - 1 on a North Dorset Farm.
Red Kite - 40 west over Maiden Castle, 6 west West Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Dancing Ledge
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Poole Quay p.m, 1 over Newtown Parkstone.
Hobby 3  -  over Hydes Heath Arne.
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Middlebere, 2 Wareham Channel
Spotted Redshank  - 1 Wareham Channel
Little Gull - 1 juv Brownsea Is.
Cuckoo - 1 Wick, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher 1 Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill

Red Kite - Dancing Ledge © Fiona Keeling




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Thursday 1st May 2025

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Scoter - 16 Hengistbury Hd.
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 adult Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 over Charminster
White-tailed Eagle 2 over Corfe Castle
Osprey - 1 Poole Hbr.
Hobby - 1 Swineham Pt.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham Pt.
Whimbrel - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Holes Bay, 3 Stanpit Marsh., 1 Middlebere, 1 Swineham Pt. 
Common Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury Hd.
Greenshank - 7 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Pomarine Skua - 2 pale morph past east Durlston CP.
Arctic Skua - 2 off Durlston CP.
White Stork - 3 east over Upton
Little Gull - 1 2CY Brownsea Lagoon
Lesser Whitethroat - Lytchett Fields RSPB (road to sewage works.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Sherford Bridge
Bearded Tit - 3 Swineham Pt.

Late news
Nightjar heard churring Newton Heath last night (30th April).

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Whimbrel - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale




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