Also GWEgret, Goshawk, 5 Marsh Harrier.

@harbourbirds.bsky.social

Swineham: 12 Glossy Ibis on flooded field S of main pit.

Swineham this morning: 2 Ruff, 3 Green Sand, 3 Snipe, 32 Egyptian Goose, Kingfisher, Clouded Yellow @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Teal starting to return to #LytchettFields. 6 drake and a female on Sherford island. Hopefully we've still got a couple of breeding pairs keeping their heads down @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Durlston sea watch this morning. Nice feeding flock of Terns, Kittiwake, Meds, etc, 20+ Gannets, 8 Manx, a few more coming through when I left at 9:30.

Barn owl hunting Durlston 9am

Another (or the same) a week later.

Unseasonal drake Pochard on the main pit Swineham @harbourbirds.bsky.social

All the Ws in @studlandbirds.bsky.social this evening: Whinchat and Wheatear on Greenlands and Whimbrel and White-taiked Eagle in Brands Bay @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Another no-Bittern sunset from Slepe Heath this evening but a flyover Woodcock was welcome.

North Bestwall just through the gate at the end of the track. There was a large mobile flock of pipits and wagtails moving through East. I have a feeling they may have left towards the Wareham channel.

Swineham this morning. LRP still present. Two Water Pipit with mixed flock @harbourbirds.bsky.social

From Slepe Heath.

2 Short-eared Owl hunting over Arne Moors this evening. 3 Jack Snipe. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Black-throated Diver showing well from Middle Beach this morning. Surf Scoter always distant, disappeared round to South Beach. 1 GN Diver, 4 BN Grebe, 13 C Scoter @harbourbirds.bsky.social @studlandbirds.bsky.social

Having been puzzled by it earlier, I had just realised that’s what it was and was about to post!

Snow Bunting Middlebere between Sika copse and Harrier Hide. Flew, unable to relocate. @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Piddle floods Bestwall this evening, before and after the deluge: 2 Ruff, 3 Greenshank, 1 Green Sand, Spoonbill, Egyptian Goose family, Hobby, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Brands Bay this morning, good number of waders close in on the low tide. 2 knot, 4 greenshank, 1 barwit, 3 Med Gulls, Osprey in dead tree, Great Egret on Goathorn shore @studlandbirds.bsky.social

I came back 11:30-12:30, 99 more Manx w and 7 Balearic w.

5 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat at Greenlands this morning. @studlandbirds.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

No sign of RNG on a quick scan of Shell Bay. 1GND, 1 Wheatear, 1 Peregrine @studlandbirds.bsky.social

At least 23 Cattle Egret at the extreme E of Wareham common this afternoon. 2 Yellow-legged Gull at the North Bridge end.