Monday 4th August 2025

Quail - 1 singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Cuckoo - a juvenile at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Lodmoor RSPB on pool at end of Southdown Avenue
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile past Hengistbury Head this evening
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon
Osprey - 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB
Firecrest - 1 trapped & ringed at Wareham
Black Redstart - 1 in a Keyhaven garden

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 3 Warmwell CBs this evening
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Lodmoor RSPB (one on West Scrape & 1 on Postbox Pool)
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 over Wick, 1 Wareham Channel
Cattle Egret - 1 opposite Grimmery Bank (Christchurch Harbour)
Osprey - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Black Kite - 1 seen circling north of Blandford Community Hospital this morning
Firecrest - a juvenile trapped & ringed at Durlston CP

Saturday 2nd August 2025

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Swift - 33 west over Hengistbury Head
Avocet - 22 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Sanderling - 6 Brownsea Lagoon
Dunlin - 120 Brownsea Lagoon, 11 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 17 Brownsea Lagoon, 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Point
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Greenshank - 19 Brownsea Lagoon
Spoonbill - 12 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Arne RSPB
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Wick Hams
Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 3 Wareham Channel
Peregrine - 2 over Wick Fields
Pied Flycatcher - 1 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Coombe Heath
Redstart - 1 St. Aldhem's Head
Whinchat - 1 Parky Meade Rail
Wheatear - 5 St. Aldhem's Head, 1 Parky Meade Rail

Yesterday: -

Balearic Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill

Dipper, Maiden Newton © Mark Churchill

Water Rail, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Hobby, River Frome, Wareham © Conor MacLeod
 

Friday 1st August 2025

Whimbrel - 5 Brands Bay
Curlew - 91 Brands Bay
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still at Pool top end of Southdown Ave, Lodmoor RSPB
Little Gull - 1 Holloway's Dock
Meditteranean Gull - 153 Brands Bay
Sandwich Tern - 106 Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 2 off Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere
Cattle Egret - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Osprey - c10 around Poole Harbour area
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Carey's Secret Garden
Hobby - 1 over Middlebere
Red Kite - 3 Upper Allen Valley, 1 Christchurch Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Middlebere
Marsh Tit - 1 Upper Allen Valley
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 on Stanpit Marsh, 1 South Haven, Studland
Firecrest - 2 Upper Allen Valley, 2 The Wood, Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 North Scrubs, Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 2 The Wick, Christchurch Harbour, 1 Upper Allen Valley
Wheatear - 5 Crouch Hill, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 over Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Kittiwake - 50 past Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 5 ringed at Portland Bill
Gannet - c300 off Portland Bill

 

Common Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Curlew, Arne © Mandy Lennox-Gordon

Spoonbills, Middlebere © Brandon Storey

Thursday 31st July 2025

Garganey - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Goosander - 1 Grimmery Bank
Cuckoo - 1 juv past Viewing Shelter, Lodmoor RSPB
Whimbrel - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Holes Bay, 2 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 4 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Sandpier - 3 Postbox Pool, Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 1 Shipstal Point, Arne
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 2 ad. & 1 juv Poole Harbour, 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Midlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Piddle Valley
Firecrest - 1 The Wood, Hengistbury Head, 1 Piddle Valley
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Ashtree Meadow

Yesterday: -

Common Scoter - 14 off Portland Bill
Black Tern - 1 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 6 off Portland Bill

Green Sandpiper, Middlebere © David Nunn

 

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Goosander - 1 Smuggler's Ditch, Stanpit
Turnstone - 5 Mudeford Sandspit
Common Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Sandpiper - 2 still nr. top of Southdown Way, 1 seen in front of viewing shelter, Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 2 nr. Wareham Causeway
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere
Black Kite - 1 SW over Portland Bill Observatory
Chough - 1 over Waterworks Quarry, Southwell, then over Tout Quarry
Pied Flycatcher - 1 in woods nr. Knoll Beach Car Park
Redstart - 1 juv Coombe Heath
Wheatear - 2 on Ballard Down
Yellow Wagtail - 4 over Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Storm Petrel - 2 off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 7 past Portland Bill

Wodd Sandpiper, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Spotted Flycatcher, Kingston Lacy © Ann Baldwin

Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Mark Churchill

Tuesday 29th July 2025

Common Scoter - 1 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Goosander - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 15 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper -  4 Silverlake, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 over Upwey
Greenshank -21 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 12 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 2 still at Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel from BoPH Boat
Spoonbill - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Chough - 1 again near Thorncombe Beacon on coastal path (SY437913)

Chough, Thorncombe Beacon © Malcolm Dowty

 

Monday 28th July 2025

Little Ringed Plover -  1 Holloway's Dock (Christchurch Harbour)
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB on pool at end of Southdown Avenue
Common Sandpiper - 5 Stanpit, 1 Holloway's Dock (Christchurch Harbour)
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 4 Brand's Bay, 4 Stanpit, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 2 (2cy) Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 10 Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 Morden Bog, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over Rodden Hive
Willow Warbler - 57 Stanpit area
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 2 Arne RSPB
Crossbill - 2 over Swanage

Recently : A CHOUGH seen at Burton Bradstock on Saturday and another, or perhaps same bird, was seen further west along the coast between Thorncombe Beacon and Seatown yesterday morning (Sunday).

Juvenile Stonechat, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

 

 

Sunday 27th July 2025

 Garganey - drake eclipse still Lodmoor

Little Ringed Plover - 4 Silverlake (2 adult 2 Juvenile)

Whimbrel - 1 Shipstal Point, 5 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 still Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor, 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - juvenile Silverlake

Roseate Tern - 1 briefly from viewing shelter Lodmoor

Arctic Skua - 1 dark phase Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 9 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB

Yesterday - 1 Little Stint Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper, Lodmoor ©  Garry Hayman

Great White Egret, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Lesser Whitethroat, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Eclipse drake  Garganey, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Water Rail, Sunnyside Farm  © Phil Bentley

Saturday 26th July 2025

Garganey - drake eclipse still Lodmoor

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor

Ruff - 1 Lodmoor

Common Sandpiper - c.10 Lodmoor

 Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Greenshank 1 Lodmoor, 17 Brownsea Lagoon

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Purple Heron - juvenile still at Littlesea Studland, 1 Furzey Island

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor

Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Pied Flycatcher - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Yesterday: Caspian Tern Longham Lakes

Pied Flycatcher, St Aldhelm's Head  © Gary Hayman

Juvenile Cuckoo, Gore Heath (July 25th ) © Elaine Geall & Steve Willis

Caspian Tern (above and below, July 25th ) Longham Lakes © Sharon Towring

Friday 25th July 2025

Garganey - eclipse drake still Lodmoor

Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit

Black-tailed Godwit - 211 Holes Bay

Turnstone - 3 Lodmoor

 Green Sandpiper - 5 Lodmoor

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor

Greenshank - 10 Holes Bay, 2 Stanpit

Little Tern - 3 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor

Curlew, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale

Little Tern, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Turnstone, Lodmoor  © Garry Hayman

Thursday 24th July 2025

Garganey - eclipsed drake Lodmoor

Nightjar - 1 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay, 3 Brands Bay

Curlew - 18 Holes Bay, 59 Brands Bay

Back-tailed Godwit - 9 Holes Bay, 5 Lodmoor, 51 Brands Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Redshank - 1 Silverlake, 97 Holes Bay, 34 Brands Bay, 81 Lytchett Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 still Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay

Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Bay

Little Tern - 1 west scrape Lodmoor

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 west lake Silverlake

Little Egret - 30 Holes Bay, 20 Swineham gravel pits

 Red Kite - 1 over Maiden Castle

Bee-eater - 1 heard at Culverwell Portland

Sedge Warbler - 120 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Grasshopper Warbler - 19 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed Portland Bird Observatory

Dartford Warbler, near Dancing Ledge,   © Bob Hammond

Collared Dove, Lodmoor  © Mary Stevens

Little Tern, Lodmoor  © Mary Stevens

Egyptian Goose, Silverlake  © Derek Fowler

Wednesday 23rd July 2025

 Swift - 120 West Bay in the evening

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit

Knot - 1 Lodmoor

Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril  Point Swanage

Wood Sandpiper - 1 still Lodmoor, 5 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB ( from Rock Lea viewpoint )

Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Fields

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Coombe Heath

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Wytch Heath, 3 by the Osprey viewing platform Poole Harbour

Crossbill - 6 Scotland Farm

Dartford Warbler Morden Bog  © Clive Hargrave

Dartford Warbler, Morden Bog  © Clive Hargrave

Tuesday 22nd July 2025

 Quail - 2 singing males Tarrant Rushton, 1 flushd by ponies on central marsh Christchurch

Whimbrel  - 2 Newton's Cove, 2 Stanpit Bight

Pectoral Sandpiper - from Beachdown Way Lodmoor until mid afternoon 

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Post Box Pool Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 1 through Christchurch Harbour

Black Tern - 1 West Scape Lodmoor

Arctic Skua - 1 Stanpit

Spoonbill - 4 on lagoon Brownsea Island

Pectoral Sandpiper, Lodmoor © Kevin Guest

Red Knot, Lodmoor © Garry Hayman

Black Tern with juvenile Common Tern  © Garry Hayman

Monday 21st July 2025

Balearic Shearwater - 113 Portland Bill

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Morden Bog

White-tailed Eagle - 2 in the Wareham Channel

Osprey - 1 west with fish Lytchett Fields RSPB (un-ringed bird)

Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Wood Sandpiper - Lodmoor RSPB (from Southdown Ave)

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay (From RLVP)

Common Quail - 2 singing male Tarrant Rushton (old airfield)

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wareham Common

Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common

Sunday 20th July 2025

Common Scoter - 8 past Mudford Quay

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 3 pastMudeford Quay

Balearic Shearwater - 70 past Portland Bill, 4 west past Peveril Point

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Purple Heron - juv Little Sea Studland NNR.

Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Red Kite - 1 Middlebere

Goshawk - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Whimbrel - 3 Middlebere, 1 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 29 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 3 Middlebere

Greenshank - 9 Middlebere

Whimbrel - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

Saturday 19th July 2025

Common Quail - 1 male singing Tarrant Rushton

Great White Egret - 2 seen fly into Poole Hbr over Studland.

Purple Heron 1 still Little Sea Studland (View from Rees Cox Hide).

Osprey - 3 seen over the Wareham Channel

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Ferrybridge

Knot - 1 sum/plum Lodmoor RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 4 Mother Siller's Channel Stanpit.

Friday 18th July 2025

Common Scoter - 24 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Purple Heron - 1 juv  Little Sea Studland

Spoonbill - 8 - Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Honey Buzzard - 1 SW over Lytchett Matravers

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Holes Bay (SW), 3 Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 1 Woodford East, 1 Peveril Point, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sand Martin - 50 Portland Bill

Grasshopper Warbler - 27 - Lower Piddle Valley (ringed), 3 California Farm, Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill

Crossbill - 8 over Careys Secret Garden

Corn Bunting Wyke Down © Nick Hull

Thursday 17th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 3 Peveril Point, 1 Woodsford

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Oakdale Noc-mig sound recording overnight 

Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Spoonbill - 6 Middlebere Channel from Arne RSPB

Purple Heron - 1 Juv still at Little Sea Studland

Great White Egret - 1 Swineham

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay 

White tailed Eagle - 1 Wytch Channel

Hobby - 1 nr Bridport

Grasshopper Warbler - 17 Ringed in the Lower Piddle Valley, 3 Durlston CP

Bearded Tit - 3 Swineham

Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 21 past Portland Bill

Grasshopper Warbler - Lower Piddle Valley
© Ed Betteridge

Wednesday 16th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 past Durlston CP

Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Greenshank - 9 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Holes Bay

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Purple Heron - 1 Still at Little Sea Studland from Rees Cox Hide

Great White Egret - 1 Little Sea Studland, 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB

White - tailed Eagle - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wareham Channel form BoPH safari boat

Ring-necked Parakeet - on wires in Studland Village

Sedge Warbler - 1 Ringed at Carey Secret Gardens

Grasshopper Warbler - 6 ringed at Carey Secret Gardens

Firecrest - 1 Upton CP

Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Durlston CP

Wren - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury

Jay - West Moors © Roy Nicklin

Swallow - Arne RSPB © Alan Membury

Tuesday 15th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford

Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Bay 

Cory's Shearwater - 1 Off Durlston CP

Balearic Shearwater - 5 of Durlston CP, 1 off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 6 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Purple Heron - 1 juv still Little Sea Studland from Rees Cox hide

Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay

Monday 14th July 2025

Whimbrel - 7 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Brands Bay

Common Sandpiper - 2 Little Sea Studland, 2 Holes Bay

Green Sandpiper - 1 River Frome Woodsford

Greenshank - 16 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 4 Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 1 Lytchett Bay

Cattle Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay

Purple Heron - 1 Little Sea Studland

Great White Egret - 1 Little Sea Studland

Red Kite - 1 Sherborne

Redstart - 1 Stanpit Ash Tree Meadow

Sunday 13th July 2025

Quail - 2 Sth & W of St. Aldhelm's Car Park
Garganey - 1 still Radipole RSPB, viwed from platform nr. Tennis Courts
Avocet - 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Curlew - 18 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper  - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 7 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Little Gull - 3 1sr summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Meditteranean Gull - 150+ Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel
Marsh Tit - family at Garston Wood
Sand Martin - 114 through Christchurch Harbour
Garden Warbler - 1 Holton Heath
Crossbill - 4 over Christchurch Harbour, 3 east past Holton Heath

Comon Tern, Brownsea Island © Lesley Colquhuon-Graham

Bearded Reedling, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton

Kingfisher, Lodmoor RSPB © Alfred Otton

 

Saturday 12th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Common Sandpiper - 9 Seymers Marsh, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 6 Middlebere
Little Gull - 1 2cy Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 5 still Brownsea Lagoon
Bittern - 1 Morden Bog Lake
Cattle Egret - 1 sth over Wick
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 1ad 1juv Morden Bog lake
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Thorncombe Wood

Cattle Egrets, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Friday 11th July 2025

Bar-headed Goose - 1 still Shipstal, probable escape
Oystercatcher - 137 Brownsea Lagoon
Avocet - 9 Brownsea Lagoon
Black-tailed Godwit - 23 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 10 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Gull - 2 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 2 Wareham Forest
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Crouch Hill
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Brownsea Island
Crossbill - several small flocks Wareham Common & Carey's

 

Grey Wagtail, Maiden Newton © Phil Cheeseman

Hobby, Iwerne Minster © Robbie McBride

Linnet, Corfe Mullen © Martin Shaw

Thursday 10th July 2025

Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point, 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 40 + Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 3 Brownsea Lagoon, 2 Lytchett Fields
Little Gull - 1 1st summer still Abbotsbury Swannery
Cattle Egret - 9 Lodmoor RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sand Martin - 450 south from Portland Bill
Swallow - 100 south from Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common
Serin - 1 north over Portland Bird Obs.

Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Allan Hansford

Little Egret, Poole Harbour © James Gurney

 

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Avocet - 6 Brownsea lagoon
Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 2cy 1 Stanpit marsh
Storm Petrel - 7 trapped & ringed Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Purple Heron - 1 possible over Verne Common
Hobby - 1 from Carey's Secret Garden
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arboretum, Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Carey's Secret Garden

Nuthatch, Poole © Tony Furnell

Mute Swan, River Stour, Blandford © Tracy Hart