Thursday 22nd August 2024

Spotted Crake - 1 juv still Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Sanderling - 4 Hengistbury Head Beach
Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Greenshank - 1 Holes Bay
CASPIAN TERN - 1 probable south past Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 1 west past Durlston CP
Cory's Shearwater - 1 west past Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 8 west past Durlston CP, 1 past Portland Bill
Great Shearwater - 1 probable west past Durlston CP
Manx Shearwater - 160+ west past Durlston CP, 5 past Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 35 west past Portland Bill, 18 west past Durlston CP, 14 past Hengistbury Head
Gannet - 105 from Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea Lagoon
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Arne RSPB
Dipper - 1 Pymore, north of Bridport

Sanderling, Hengistbury Head Beach © Scott Usher

Spoonbills, Brownsea Lagoon © Tina Dawkins

Spotted Crake, Lodmoor RSPB © Sharon Towning

 

Wednesday 21st August 2024

Grey Partridge - 10 Pentridge Down
Spotted Crake - 1 juv still Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Avocet - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Sanderling - 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 on Sandspit, Mudeford
Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 5 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 11 Brownsea Lagon, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Balearic Shearwater - 15 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Osprey - Poole Harbour, 2 Christchurch harbour
Red Kite - 2 Pentridge Down
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Keysworth
Kingfisher - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Silverlake
Firecrest - 2 SW Blagdon Plantation, nr. Pentridge
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 SW Blagdon Plantation, nr. Pentridge
Pied Flycatcher - 1 juv Pentridge Down
Redstart - 1 Pentridge Down
Whinchat - 1 Pentridge Down
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Stanpit Marsh
Corn Bunting - 1 Pentridge Down

Yellow Wagtail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Osprey, Lytchett Bay © Peter John Corbin

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Clive & Rosemary Hargrave

Tuesday 20th August 2024

Goosander - 8 redheads West Lake, Silverlake
Spotted Crake - 1 still at Postbox Pools, Lodmoor RSPB
Avocet - 30+ Brownsea lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 River Frome, Woodsford, 1 Cress Beds, Wild Woodbury
Wood Sandpiper - 1 at Postbox Pools, Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Sandwich Terns - 50 at roost East Marsh, Stanpit, 16 Lodmoor RSPB
Manx Shearwater - 8 past Ballard Down
Balearic Shearwater - 32 past Durlston CP, 17 past Ballard Down
Spoonbill - 21 Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 1 West Lake, Silverlake
Great White Egret - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 West Lake, Silverlake, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 over sea Durlston CP
White-tailed Eagle - 2 off Arne RSPB
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Cstle, 1 nr.Car Park, Wild Woodbury
Wheatear - 3 Crouch Hill, 2 Maiden Castle
Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Ballard Down, 2 over Lytchett Bay
Tree Pipit - 1 over Ballard Down
Goldfinch - 130+ from transect counts, Wild Woodbury

Yesterday -

Balearic Shearwater - 120+ off Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 5 over Portland Bill

Black-tailed Godwit, Lodmoor RSPB © Sharon Towning

Ringed Plover, Lodmoor RSPB ©  Phil Cheeseman

Wheatear, Crouch Hill © Clinton Whale

 

Monday 19th August 2024

Spotted Crake - a juvenile at Lodmoor RSPB on pool viewed from post box on Southdown Avenue
Knot - 2 Stanpit
Grey Plover - 1 Brand's Bay
Little Stint - 1 briefly at Stanpit Marsh this morning
!Whimbrel -1 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Lagoon
Sooty Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 4 Portland Bill, 2 past Abbotsbury
Osprey - 1 Brand's Bay
Goshawk - 1 over a Corfe Mullen garden

Moorhen, Iford Weir © Clinton Whale

Sunday 18th August 2024

Knot - 1 Rodden Hive
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit on North Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Greenshank - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
Spoonbill - 10 Middlebere
Osprey - 6 Wareham Channel, 1 Avon Valley
Goshawk - 1 Arne RSPB
Hobby - 1 Arne RSPB
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP, 1 trapped and ringed at Longham Lakes

Saturday 17th August 2024

Nightjar - 1 Stanpit in North Scrubs this morning
Grey Plover -3 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 6 Brand's Bay, 2 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit, 1 Brand's Bay
Wood Sandpiper - 1 flew past Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 7 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 14 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Middlebere, 1 Brand's Bay
Sandwich Tern - 132 Stanpit
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile at Stanpit
Spoonbill - 21 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 6/7 Poole Harbour
Goshawk - 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 2 Tarrant Rushton, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Wimborne
Grasshopper Warbler - 5 trapped and ringed at Lytchett Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 10 St Aldhelm's Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed at Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne RSPB near Lookout Hide
Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Hardy's Monument
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Yesterday : 52 White Stork flew west over Puncknowle

Friday 16th August 2024

Goosander - 13 redheads at Silverlake this evening on West Lake
Nightjar - 1 trapped & ringed at Longham Lakes early morning
Grey Plover - 4 Brownsea Island, 1 Brand's Bay
Golden Plover - 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 13 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Island, 4 Brand's Bay
Little Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery briefly this evening
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 5000 past Portland Bill before 8am
Balearic Shearwater - 200 past Portland Bill before 8am, 2 Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island
Hobby - 2 Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Yesterday : Sooty Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill and 1 west past the Cobb at Lyme Regis

Thursday 15th August 2024

 Alpine Swift - 1 Ferrybridge Early am with 18 Swift

Redshank - 287 Holes Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB west scrape

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Holme Lane GP

Arctic Skua - 1 Winspit flying West, 1 Weymouth Bay going West

Corys Shearwater - 1 Past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 21 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake West Lake

Osprey - 9 from Birds of Poole Harbour Safari Cruise

Goshawk - 1 Lytchett Fields 

White Tailed Eagle - Wareham Channel towards Holten Lee

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Lytchett Bay

Wheatear - 2 Kimmeridge Clavell Tower

Redshank - Brands Bay © Garry Hayman

Wednesday 14th August 2024

Alpine Swift - 1 flew over Ferrybridge in the evening

Grey Plover - 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Ringed Plover - 87 Stanpit Marsh, 57 Brownsea Laggon DWT, 15 Lodmoor RSPB

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay

Sanderling - 19 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Green Sandpiper - 6 Stanpit Marsh, 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Puddletown Water Meadows, 1 Middlebere

Wood Sandpiper - 3 Standpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Great Skua - 2 past Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 8 past Portland Bill

Cory's Shearwater - 1 Pass Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - c60 Portland Bill, 27 Abbotsbury Beach

Balearic Shearwater - c90 Portland Bill

Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour flying North

Spoonbill - 21 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 7 Middlebere

Great White Egret - 7 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Keysworth saltmarsh

Osprey - 2 Middlebere Lookout Arne RSPB, 2 Morden Bog, 1 Christchurch Harbour

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland in a private garden

Redstart - 1 Church Knowle Knowle Hill

Wheatear - 2 Abbotsbury Beach

Green Sandpiper - Middlebere © Garry Hayman

Tuesday 13th August 2024

Whimbrel - 2 Brands Bay, 1 Holes Bay

Sanderling - 8 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh by bridge

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields

Arctic Tern - 1 Juv Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 19 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 4 Lytchett Bay area, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Honey Buzzard - 1 over lower Piddle Valley

Ringtail Harrier sp - 1 Winspit

Hoopoe -1 Abbotsbury in private horse paddock no public access

Sedge Warbler - 65 Carey secret Garden ringing session 

Grasshopper Warbler - 7 Carey secret Garden ringing session 

Garden Warbler - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 South Haven Studland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ringed at Portland Obs, 1 Durlston CP

Wheatear - 4 St Aldhelms Point, 1 Holes Bay

Yellow Wagtail - 3 St Aldhelms Point by the church, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Yesterday: 

Ferrybridge - 30 Common Sandpipers,  5 Knot and a Curlew Sandpiper. 

Portland Bill - 1 Golden Plover, 13 Balearic Shearwaters, and a Great Skua.

Arctic Tern - Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Monday 12th August 2024

Goosander  - 6  female Silverlake on West lake, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Little Ring Plover - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Whimbrel - 4 Holes Bay

Cuckoo - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh over Priory Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow Legged Gull - 4 Stilt Pools Swineham

Balearic Shearwater - 13 Past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 3 Coombe Heath Arne RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 Coombe Heath Arne RSPB

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Thornecombe Woods

Yesterday :- Ferrybridge   280 Ringed Plover, 260 Dunlin, 5 Sanderling and 1 Knot

Peregrin Falcon - Bournemouth © David Wareham

Sunday 11th August 2024

Cory's Shearwater - 1 West Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - c38 Portland Bill

European Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 1 on Stilt Pools Swineham

Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor

Osprey - c10 Poole Hbr, 1 Lytchett Bay

Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Hbr.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Spotted Redshank - 3 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 4 Wareham Channel, 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Gull - 1 Coward's Marsh

Caspian Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Rosy Starling - 1 Broadmayne

Saturday 10th August 2024

Cory's Shearwater - 9 west past Portland Bill, 1 west past Kimmeridge.

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 18 past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 12 Middlebere

Osprey - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere

Common Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 3 Middlebere, 2 Lytchett Bay RSPB

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Middlebere

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill

Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill

Sabine's Gull - 1 adult west past Kimmeridge

Friday 9th August 2024

Great Northern Diver - 1 past West Bay

Manx Shearwater - 1 past West Bay

Balearic Shearwater - 4 past West Bay

Spoonbill - 19 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle 1  Wareham Channel (from Ham Common VP)

Osprey - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere

Knot - 1 Wareham Channel

Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 4 Brand's Bay, 2 Wareham Channel

Common Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Holes Bay SE, 1 Wareham Channel

Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere

Greenshank - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 juv Brand's Bay

At Sea

Grey Phalarope - 1 seen 30km SE of Swanage from Channel Ferry

Thursday 8th August 2024

Common Scoter - 6 off Hengistbury Hd.

Goosander - 7 redheads  Silverlake (on west pond/lake)

Cory's Shearwater - 1 east at 13:00hrs Durlston CP.

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Church Ope Cove

Balearic Shearwater - 31 Portland Bill, 8 past Church Ope Cove, 4 past Durlston CP.

Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake

Spoonbill - 15 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 3 seen over Arne RSPB

Whimbrel - 6 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Holes Bay, 2 Brand's Bay

Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadow

Wednesday 7th August 2024

Goosander - 7 redheads at Silverlake (West Lake)
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit, 1 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit,  1 NE Holes Bay, 1 Brownsea Island
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 2 from Rock Lea Viewpoint at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 4 Middlebere
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island
Cory's Shearwater - 5 east past Portland Bill, 1 east past Durlston CP
Balearic Shearwater - 26 past Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake
Spoonbill - 16 Brownsea Island, 3 Middlebere
Osprey - 4 Middlebere

Tuesday 6th August 2024

Grey Plover -1 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island
Sanderling - 8 Brownsea Island
Common Sandpiper - 3 Peveril Point
Wood Sandpiper - 1 on pool behind reedbed at Abbotsbury beach
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 17 Lytchett Bay, 10 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Island
Cory's Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 32 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 14 Brownsea Island, 3 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Cerne Abbas, 1 Coombe Heath
Spotted Flycatcher - 5 in family group at Cerne Abbas

Curlew Sandpiper, Brownsea Island © Steve Sansom

Monday 5th August 2024

Mandarin Duck - 1 Portland (private garden) is very rare on the Island.
Avocet - 4 Brownsea Island.
Grey Plover - 2 Brand's Bay.
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Green Sandpiper - 13 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 10 Lytchett Fields, 1 Holes Bay.
Whimbrel - 5 Brand's Bay.
Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Spoonbill - 15 Middlebere, 13 Brownsea Island, 3 Lytchett Fields.
Osprey - 2-4 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 Wareham (Carey).
Firecrest - 2 Upton CP.

Sunday 4th August 2024

Goosander - 1 Silverlake.
Egyptian Goose - 2 Longham Lakes.

Cuckoo - 1 juvenile at a private site in East Dorset.
Knot - 1 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 20 Lytchett Bay, 7 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Sanderling - 3 Brownsea Island.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Bay.
Whimbrel - 4 Brand's Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Manx Shearwater - 18 past Portland Bill.
Balearic Shearwater - 50+ past Portland Bill.
Cory's Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake.
Osprey - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Green Woodpecker - 1 Portland Bill is a local rarity.
Tree Pipit - 1 Portland Bill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Yellow Wagtail - 4 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Portland Bill.
Wheatear - 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 5 Lytchett Bay, 2 St Aldhelm's Head.

Meadow Pipit and juvenile Cuckoo, East Dorset © Bagsy

Meadow Pipit and juvenile Cuckoo, East Dorset © Bagsy

Juvenile Cuckoo, East Dorset © Bagsy

Saturday 3rd August 2024

Garganey - 1 Swineham.
Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Island.
Knot - 1 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 13 Brownsea Island, 5 Wareham Channel.
Sanderling - 18 Brownsea Island.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Silverlake, 1 Swineham.
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill.
Golden Pheasant - 1 male Furzey Island.
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Silverlake.
Cattle Egret - 1 Stanpit.
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Island, 1 Wareham Channel.
Osprey - c6 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 1 Arne RSPB.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arne.
Garden Warbler - 3 Lodmoor.

Stonechat, Arne © Alan Membury

Spotted Flycatcher, Arne © Alan Membury

Friday 2nd August 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 13+ Brownsea Island.
Sanderling - 21 Brownsea Island.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Brownsea Island.
Green Sandpiper - 6 Abbotsbury (The Fleet).
Common Sandpiper - 2+ Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Longham Lakes.
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit.
Cory's Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 9 Brownsea Island.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Cerne Abbas.
Red Kite - 1 Winterborne Whitechurch.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lytchett Bay.

Thursday 1st August 2024

Grey Plover - 1 summer plumage Brands Bay
Whimbrel - 6 Brands Bay, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew - 77 Brands Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Ferrybridge, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 16 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 2 over Wareham Forest, 1 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Yellow Wagtail - 2 St. Aldhem's Head

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 5 past Portland Bill

Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Egyptian Goose, Lytchett Fields RSPB © Peter John Corbin

Shelduck, Holes Bay © Tony Furnell

Wednesday 31st July 2024

Avocet - 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Grey Plover - 3 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 in summer plumage
Little Ringed Plover - 4 The Hump, Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 2 Holes Bay, 1 Silverlake, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black-tailed Godwit - 315 Holes Bay
Knot - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Ferrybridge
Dunlin - 259 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Common Sandpiper - 7 Silverlake, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Silverlake
Redshank - 181 Holes Bay, 98 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Greenshank - 13 Silverlake, 9 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 13 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 10 Poole Harbour, 7 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Alderholt, 1 Holes Bay

Yellowhammer, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman

Dartford Warbler, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman

Little Gull, Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Tuesday 30th July 2024

Greylag Goose - 108 East Lake, Silverlake
Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 still Tidmoor, The Fleet
Whimbrel - 6 Brands Bay, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere
Bar-tailed Godwit - 14 Brands Bay
Snipe - 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet - first Autumn arrival
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Middle Lake & 1 East Lake, Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 2 still off Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmmor RSPB
Osprey - 1f Middlebere
Goshawk - 1f Middlebere
Hobby - 1 over Wick, Christchurch Harbour
Coal Tit - flock of 20 over Stanpit Marsh
Sand Martin - 95 over Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 6 Middlebere
Greenshank - 1 Middlebere
Wheatear - 1 Nine Barrow Down, Corfe Castle
Yellow Wagtail - 2 over Stanpit Marsh

Kestrel, Portland © Lynne Ruddick

Grey Heron, Queens Park Pond, Bournemouth © Roy Wilson

Little Grebe, Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Monday 29th July 2024

Avocet - 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Ringed Plover - 38 Ferrybridge
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Whimbrel - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Tidmoor, The Fleet
Curlew - 106 Brands Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 107 Brands Bay
Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit marsh
Spoonbill - 2 again Brownsea Lagoon, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Stilt Pools, Swineham
Great White Egret - 1 River Frome, Woodsford
Red Kite - 1 over Swanage, 1 over Hartland Moor
White-tailed Eagle - 2 again Wareham Channel
Hobby - 1 over Hartland Moor
Grasshopper Warbler - 18 ringed at Carey's Secret Garden
Dartford Warbler - 2 Silverlake
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Morden Bog

Red Kite, Colehill © Ann Baldwin

Spotted Flycatcher, Morden Bog © Phil Cheeseman

Swallow, Holes Bay © Tina Dawkins

 

Sunday 28th July 2024

Golden Pheasant - 1 Furzey Island Slipway Poole Harbour

Ringed Plover - 43 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere, 1 Ferrybridge

Knot - 1 in Summer Plumage Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 5 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpipe, 5 Middlebere, 3 BoPH Summer Safari Cruise, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere Channel

Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere Channel

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Middlebere Channel, 1 Stilt Pools Swineham

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere Channel

Cattle Egret - 2 Stilt Pools Swineham

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere Channel

Osprey - 1 Middlebere male 022, 1 BoPH Summer Safari Cruise female CJ7

Goshawk - 1 male Hartland Moor, 1 female Middlebere, 1 BoPH Summer Safari Cruise

Red Kite - 1 over Bridport

White tailed Eagle - 2 BoPH Summer Safari Cruise

Common Redstart - 1 Cogden

Wheatear - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Ferrybridge

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - Lodmoor RSPB © Rebecca Porter

Wheatear - Hartland Moor ©  Garry Hayman

Saturday 27th August 2024

Ringed Plover - 21 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Brands Bay

Bar tailed Godwit - 1 Brads Bay

Knot - 1 still ay Ferrybridge

Sanderling - 3 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Silverlake

Yellow legged Gull - 1 Holme Lane GP

Roseate Turn - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Flew North over Portland Bill 

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 1 at about 2.30pm in Christchurch Harbour

Sparrowhawk - 1 Poundbury

Marsh Harrier - 1 Flew North over Portland Bill

Sedge Warbler- 40 Carey Secret Garden ringing session

Grasshopper Warbler - 12 Carey Secret Garden ringing session

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Carey Secret Garden ringing session

Sedge Warbler - Stanpit Marsh ©  Scott Usher

Common Sandpiper - Stanpit Marsh ©  Scott Usher

 

Friday 26th July 2024

Oystercatcher - 300 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Ringed Plover - 21 Ferrybridge, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Brands Bay

Knot - 1 Ferrybridge in summer plumage

Common Sandpiper - 1 eastern side of Silverlake 

Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow legged Gull - 10 Stilt Pools Swineham, 1 juv Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 1 Middlebere seen from Coombe Heath Arne RSPB, 1 Flying over Goathorn towards Ower Quay

Peregrine Falcon - 2 Flying over Wareham

Marsh Tit - 1 Cranborne

Grasshopper warbler - 2 Durlston CP

Yellow wagtail - 4 Stanpit Marsh

Dunlin - Brands Bay ©  Garry Hayman

Thursday 25th July 2024

Grey Plover - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Ringed Plover - 40 Ferrybridge, 10 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Sanderling - 4 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sand Piper - 1 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere, 3 BoPH safari cruise

Greenshank - 7 Lychett Fields RSPB, 4 Middlebere, 3 BoPH safari Cruise, 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Arctic Skua - 1 Ferrybridge

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere, 3 Bownsea Lagoon DWT

Short eared Owl - 1 West Bexington

juv Robin - Merley © Roger P

Greenfinch - Stanpit Mash © Clinton Whale

Linnet - Merley © Roger P 

Wednesday 24th July 2024

Bittern - 1 seen in flight Arne Moors flying to Swineham  GP.

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Yellow-legged Gull - 3 Swineham on the Stilt Pools

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill (1st of autumn)

Black-headed Gull & Common Tern Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

Tuesday 23rd July 2024

Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Whimbrel - 14 Brand's Bay,  2 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 5 Middlebere

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Bay from RLVP.

Swallow/Sand martin - c100 Hengistbury HHC.

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh Clinton Whale

Whimbrel - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Light morph Buzzard - North Dorset © Ian Denton