Thursday 18th April 2024

Cuckoo - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 5 on beach west of West Bexington, 2 SW Holes Bay, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper -  2 Wareham Common, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on west scrape
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit Bight
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1st-winter at Wareham Common, best viewed from slope behind the Doctor's Surgery (first seen yesterday evening)
Common Tern - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 2nd-winter again seen at Shipstal Point
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - male 374 back in Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Black Heath (nr Thorncombe Wood), 2 Poole Harbour
Firecrest - 1 Newton Heath
Bearded Tit - 1 Wick
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Wick
Tree Pipit - 1 Newton Heath

Greenfinch, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Cetti's Warbler, Lodmoor RSPB © Joe Kaplonek

Whimbrel, West Bexington © Richard Cook

Wednesday 17th April 2024

Goosander - 1 female in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Cuckoo - 1 Durlston CP
Turtle Dove - 1 Kingston Lacy
Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 6 Brand's Bay, 1 SW Holes Bay
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper -  1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 SE Holes Bay, 1 Mudeford Quay
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Gull - 1 Wareham Channel
FORSTER'S TERN - 2nd-winter seen at Shipstal Point, Holes Bay and Lytchett Bay today
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Harbour
Red Kite -  1 Wareham Channel, 1 Bournemouth (West Howe), 1 Brand's Bay
Hobby - 1 over Swineham
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Abbotsbury around the beach car park
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 South Haven CP
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - male still at Portland Bill near Wallsend
Yellow Wagtail -  2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 South Haven

Yellow Wagtail, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Egyptian Geese, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

Western Subalpine Warbler, Portland Bill  © Mike Kirby

Red Kite, Brand's Bay © Brian Edge

 

Tuesday 16th April 2024

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 9 on the Cobb at Lyme Regis
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Common Sandpiper -  1 Longham Lakes
Little Gull - 1 Bestwell RSPB
FORSTER'S TERN - 2nd-winter still moving between Arne RSPB and Brownsea Lagoon
Black-throated Diver - 1 off Portland Bill
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Child Okeford (female G486)
Red Kite -  1 Holes Bay
Swift - 1 Longham Lakes
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - male still at Portland Bill near West Cliffs

Monday 15th April 2024

Goosander - 3 males flew up river at Stour Valley NR
Whimbrel - 27 Lodmoor RSPB west scrape this evening, 2 Brand's Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 31 from Mudeford Quay
Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay
Manx Shearwater - 1 Durlston CP
Osprey - first egg laid by Poole Harbour pair
Golden Oriole - 1 male at Tidmoor Firing Range
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - 1 male still present at Wallsend on Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Durlston CP
Tree Pipit - 1 over Lytchett Bay

Yesterday :
Hoopoe -1 Charminster in Little Court area
Bee-eater - 1 found dead in a Swanage garden (earliest county record)
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 on private land in Purbeck
Firecrest - 2 Garston Wood RSPB

Western Subalpine Warbler, Portland Bill © Chris Snook

Western Subalpine Warbler, Portland Bill © Chris Snook

Chaffinch, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

 

 

Sunday 14th April 2024

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Tidmoor Point
Cuckoo - 1 Bridport, at Hyde Hill near Bothenhampton
Whimbrel - 3 past St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stanpit, 1 Tidmoor Point
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Common Sandpiper -  2 Longham Lakes, 1 Stanpit, 1 Wareham Channel
FORSTER'S TERN - 2nd-winter still commuting between Brownsea Lagoon and Shipstal Point
Great Northern Diver - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 past St Aldhelm's Head
Red-throated Diver - 2 past St Aldhelm's Head
Red Kite -  4 St Aldhelm's Head
Hobby - 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Swift - 1 Longham Lakes
Hoopoe - 1 in off the sea at Portland then flew north
WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER - 1 male at Portland Bill near West Cliffs
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Whitethroat -  4 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Ballard Down, 1 Friar Waddon
Ring Ouzel - 2 Durlston CP
Black Redstart - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Redstart - 1 Portland
Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Cirl Bunting - 1 Studland, east of Glebeland

Western Subalpine Warbler, Portland Bill © Steven Carey

Wimbrel, Tidmoor Point © Freddy Alway

Song Thrush, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday 13th April 2024

Garganey - 1 past Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 16  past Hengistbury Hd.

Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Great Northern Diver - 2 Brand's Bay

Purple Heron - 1 SW over Ringstead car park

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Swineham 

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Wyke Down

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Poole Hbr.

Hobby - 1 over Lytchett Bay (RLVP)

Purple Sandpiper - 25 Hengistnury Hd.

Whimbrel - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Brand's Bay

Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes

Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake

Spotted Redshank - 5 Lytchett Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Middlebere

Great Skua - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Little Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Little Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Forster's Tern - 1 2nd/winter Brownsea Is.

Cuckoo - 1 Church Knowle

Redstart - 1 fem Lytchett  Bay Sewage Works, 1 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 2 hambledon Hill, 1 male Portland Bill

Ring Ouzel - 1 East Cliff Portland Bill

Sedge Warbler - 1 Longham Lakes

Reed Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Hooded Crow - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Friday 12th April 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - Flock of 48+ west past Portland Bill later past West Bexington

Scaup - 1 1st/winter female Abbotsbury Swannery

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Littlesea The Fleet

Common Scoter - 1 male Common Scoter Longham Lakes

Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill

Great Northern Diver - 1 Littlesea The Fleet, 1 Shell Bay.

Purple Heron - 1 NE over Little Sea Studland circled and then headed south.

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Arne RSPB

Osprey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Christchurch Hbr.

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Longham Lakes

Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere

Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Forster's Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Littlesea The Fleet

Redstart - 1 Suckthumb Quarry, 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Whinchat - 1 Greenland's Fm, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wheatear - 3 South Haven, 2 Sunnyside Fm

Ring Ouzel - 1 South Haven Studland

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Portland Bill

Reed Warbler - 3 Longham Lakes

Whitethroat - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1, Portland Bill,1 West Bay

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill Dorchester

Pied Flycatcher - 1 male Ladymead garden Portland

Corn Bunting - 1 Riversmeet Meadow Christchurch

Wheatear - Christchurch Harbour © Dave Hill

Thursday 11th April 2024

Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB/Middlebere

Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lytchett Bay

Forster's Tern - 1 2nd/winter Brownsea Lagoon

Hoopoe - 1 on NE of Little Sea Studland (Knoll Beach side of halfway Path)

Tree Pipit - 1 Arne RSPB

Wheatear - 3 Portland Bill

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill Dorchester

Sandwich Tern - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale 

Jay - Tucson garden © Dave Hill

Wednesday 10th April 2024

Red-breasted Goose - 2 over Lytchett Bay a.m.

Great Northern Diver - 5 Ferrybridge, 4 Balls Lake Poole Hbr.

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Wareham Channel

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere

Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Bay

Common Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne Moors

Little Gull - 1ad Swineham Floods

Common Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Forster's Tern - 1 2nd/W Brownsea Lagoon

Cuckoo - 1 Briantspuddle

Hoopoe - 1 early a.m. Little Sea Studland

Swallow - 2 Ballard Down

White Wagtail - 1 Ballard Down

Tree Pipit - 2 Ballard Down

Nightingale - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Redstart - 1 male Rushcombe Bottom

Sedge Warbler - 1 Swineham Pt.

Reed Warbler - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Swineham Pt.

Oystercatcher - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Tuesday April 9th 2024

 Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane Gravel Pit

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay

Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Swineham

Sandwich Tern - 1 Lytchett Bay, 6 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor

Forster's Tern - 2nd winter again at Shipstal Point Arne

Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay

Puffin, Dancing Ledge  © Peter Moore

Song Thrush, Bridport © David Asquith

Monday April 8th 2024

 Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere

Little Gull - 2 Lodmoor

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lodmoor

Forster's Tern - 2nd winter again at Shipstal Point

Osprey - 1 unringed Middlebere Channel

Red Kite - 1 over Longham Lakes, 1 Winterbourne Zelston

Reed Warbler - 2 Longham Lakes

Ring Ouzel - male at Wick, Christchurch Harbour

Pied Flycatcher - 1 East Were Portland

Yesterday:

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Knowlton

Ring Ouzel, Hengistbury Head © Michael Gibbons

Woodchat Shrike, Cogden Beach (April 6th )  © Peter Coe

Woodlark, Morden Bog   © Robert Fielding

Redshank, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Chiffchaff, Duncliffe Wood © John Bishop

Long-tailed Tit Tucton garden © Dave Hill

Sunday April 7th 2024

Little Gull - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Poole Harbour

Sandwich Tern - 13 Rodden Hive

Little Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Arctic Tern - 1 past Hengistbury Head

 Forster's Tern - 2nd winter on Brownsea Island lagoon mid afternoon, previously at Shipstal Point

Arctic Skua - 1 dark phase from Branksome, 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon

Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour

Marsh Harrier - 1 Rodden Hive, 3 Poole Harbour

Hen Harrier - male Chickerell flying east

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Swineham, 2 Shapwick

Whinchat - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Sunnyside Farm Wareham

Dark-eyed Junco - still showing well in private garden in Coronation Road, Gillingham - possibly viewable when perched in trees

Dark-eyed Junco, Gillingham © John Bishop

Little Gull, Lodmoor © John Pritchard

Wheatear Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Saturday April 6th 2024

 Little Gull - 1st winter Lodmoor

Common Tern - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Forster's Tern - 2nd winter Holes Bay

Black Tern - 1 through Chesil Cove

Cattle Egret - 3 Longham Lakes

Red Kite - 1 Forde Abbey

Hoopoe - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland United playing fields off Grove Road Portland

Great Grey Shrike - 1 still Morden Bog

Woodchat Shrike - 1 100 metre east of Burton Mere

Ring Ouzel - 1 Southwell garden Portland

Reed Warbler - at least 2 Lodmoor, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB

Cirl Bunting - male Durlston CP

Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Gillingham (in a private garden  Coronation road viewable from 13:00 - 18:00 tomorrow)

Dark-eyed Junco, Gillingham  © John Howell

Linnet, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Cirl Bunting, Durlston CP © Rob Johnson

Great Grey Shrike Morden Bog  © David Camp

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Friday 5th April 2024

Greater Scaup - 1 female Abbotsbury Swannery

Swift - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Black necked Grebe - 1 Studland Bay

Ringed Plover - 18 Stanpit March

Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill, 4 Sandspit Hengisbury Head

Spotted Redshank 2 Lytchett Fields RPSB

Common Tern - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Arne RSPB Shipstal Pt

Great Skua - 1 off Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 1 off Peveril Point

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 1 Middlebere Platform

Short eared Owl - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Merlin - 1 Portland Bill

Willow Warbler - 90 Portland Bill, 10 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Woodsford

Reed Warbler - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat (presumed) - in a garden at Southwell Portland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bill

Redstart - 3 Portland Bill

Purple Sandpiper  - Portland Bill © Garry Hayman

Thursday 4th April 2024

Common Scoter - 2 flying East from Bridge Camp The Fleet 
Long tailed Duck - 1 Littlesea The Fleet

Ringed Plover - 10 Ferrybidge, 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Silverlake

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB Pools Field

Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB Pools Field

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Arne RSPB Shiptal pt and later at Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Arctic Skua - 1 going West from Bridge Camp The Fleet

Great Northern Diver - 3 Littlesea The Fleet, 2 off Billy Winters Portland Harbour

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Bitern - over a garden in Broadwey

Osprey - Middlebere Platform

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog Wareham Forest

Tree Pipit - Durlston CP

Cirl Bunting - 1 singing male Durlston CP

Yesterday:  

Serin - singing in private garden Southwell Portland

Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Obs Garden

Forster's Tern - Arne RSPB © Steve Sansom

Siskin - Thornecombe woods  © Helen Wood 

Ringed Plover - Ferrybridge © Helen Wood 

Turnstone - Hengisbury Head © Clinton Whale 

Wednesday 3rd April 2024

Mandarin Duck - 1 Drake East Holme Flood Fields

Great Scaup - 1 female Abbotsbury Swannery

Common Scoter - 36 past Portland Bill, 23 Hegisbury Head

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Silverlake

Whimbrel - 1 Patchins Point Poole Harbour

Bar tailed Godwit - 36 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Ferrybridge

Black tailed Godwit - 1140 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 618 East Holme Flood Fields

Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes

Purple Sandpiper - 24 on the Sandspit Hengisbury Head

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB Pools Field

Little Gull - 3 off Portland Bill

Sandwich Tern - 10 Hegisbury Head, 3 Ferrybridge,  3 Holes Bay, 2 Portland Bill

Arctic Tern - 2 Portland Bill

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Arne RSPB Shipstal Point

Red throated Diver - 2 off Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 17  East Holme Flood Fields

Hen Harrier - 1 male Wyke Down

Short eared Owl - 2 Wyke Down

Hobby - 1 over Slepe Heath

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Decoy Pond Morden Bog

House Martin - 3 Longham Lakes

Lesser Redpoll - 2 Footpath 12 Lytchett Bay 

Corn Bunting - 30 Tarrant Rushton

Brent Goose - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Tuesday 2nd April 2024

Black tailed Godwit - c 3000 Brownsea lagoon DWT

Purple Sandpiper - 14 Sandspit Hengisbury Head

FORSTER'S TERN - Arne RSPB Shipstal Point

Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge

Great White Egret - Standpit Marsh

Osprey - 4 Various areas of Poole Harbour 

Hen Harrier - 1 Nr Bradbury Rings

White tailed Eagle - 1 G644 Wareham Channel, 1 G466 Holes Bay

Short eared Owl - 1 Wyke Down

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Decoy Pond Morden Bog

Swallow - 2 Wareham Common

Yellow browed Warbler - St Georges rd Louds Mill sewage Works Dorchester

Restart - 2 Reap Lane Portland 

Tree Pipit - 2 over Swineham

Lesser Redpoll - 2 at Footpath 12 Lytchett Bay

Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP nr the learning Centre

Short eared Owl - Wyke Down ©  Michael Coleman 

Stonechat - Cogden - ©  Helen Wood

Shelduck - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Osprey - Middlebere - ©  Mike Kirby

Puffin - Dancing Ledge - © S Sansom

Great Crested Grebe - Radipole RSPB ©  Helen Wood

Monday 1st April 2024

Eider - 16 past West Bexington and Portland Bill.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 The Fleet (Littlesea).
White Stork - 1 over the Piddle Valley went east to Stoborough, 1 (perhaps the same) Christchurch Harbour.
Purple Sandpiper - 25 Hengistbury sandspit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 4 Lytchett Fields.
Forster's Tern - 1 Poole Harbour (Middlebere and Shipstal).
Little Gull - 1 Swineham area (very flooded).
Great Northern Diver - 2 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Morden Bog, 1 north over Okeford Hill.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Broadmayne, 1 Wareham Channel, Holes Bay and Creekmoor.
Merlin - 1 Chesil Beach (Littlesea), 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Short-eared Owl - 4 Wyke Down.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog.
Common Redstart - 1 Cogden.

Late news: Hoopoe and Ring Ouzel at Portland Bill yesterday.

Osprey, Morden Bog © Helen Wood.

Great Grey Shrike, Morden Bog © Helen Wood.

Skylark, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.

Short-eared Owls, Wyke Down © Chris Walker.

Sunday 31st March 2024

Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit.
Mandarin Duck - 2 Shillingstone.
Forster's Tern - 1 Poole Harbour (Brownsea Island and Shipstal).
Sandwich Tern - 50+ past Hengistbury Head.
Common Tern - 3 past Hengistbury Head.
Little Gull - 2 off Hengistbury Head.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Harbour.
Osprey - 1 Langton Herring, 1 Longham Lakes, 2-3 north over Morden Bog, 1 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 Merley, 1 Shillingstone, 1 Upwey, 1 Winterborne Zelston, 1 Woodsford.
Hen Harrier - 1 Morden Bog.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog.
House Martin - 8 Swyre.
Wheatear - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Hardy's Monument.
Willow Warbler - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Dorchester (Louds Mill).

Late news: Cirl Bunting at Durlston CP yesterday.

Meadow Pipit, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Chiffchaff, Cogden © Helen Wood.

Skylark, Wareham Forest © Robert Fielding.