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Our Next Meetings

Sunday 19th September 2010
Portland Bill (SY683699) 09.30 – morning only. Meet in Sweethill Road car park. Meeting includes a visit to Portland Bill Bird Observatory for a ringing demonstration. - Leader Trevor Thorpe.

If you require further information, contact:
Andy Humber on 01202 718443

Monthly Archives


This Week in History

2nd 1963 Alpine Swift Swanage
2nd 1971 Great Reed Warbler Radipole Lake
3rd 1977 Lesser Yellowlegs Lodmoor
3rd 2003 Yellow-breasted Bunting Portland
4th 1974 White-rumped Sandpiper Ferrybridge
5th 1962 Olivaceous Warbler Portland
5th 1975 Greenish Warbler Portland
5th 1998 Alpine Swift Hengistbury Head
6th 1984 Arctic Warbler Portland
6th 1987 Wilson's Phalarope Radipole Lake
6th 2007 Wilson's Phalarope Stanpit Marsh
7th 2006 Glossy Ibis Radipole Lake



September 2010

Thursday 2nd September

Garganey - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 6 Middlebere, 3 Brownsea Island
Marsh Harrier - 1 Portland Bill
Osprey - 1 Middlebere
Hobby - 4 Hartland Moor
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Stone Curlew - 1 Barleycrates, Portland
Knot - 6 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor, 3 Brownsea Island
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor, up to 6 Middlebere, 9 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Ferrybridge, 4 Brownsea Island
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Ruff - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Longham Lakes
Ring-billed Gull - 1 first summer at Crouch Hill Christchurch Harbour
Swallow - 15000 over Christchurch Harbour
House Martin - 2200over Christchurch Harbour
Sand Martin - 1100 Christchurch Harbour
Yellow Wagtail - 56 over Christchurch Harbour)
Wryneck - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Durlston
Whinchat - 7 Christchurch Harbour
Common Whitethroat - 87 Christchurch Harbour
Spotted Flycatcher - 22 Hartland Moor



Curlew Sandpipers, Brownsea Island © Tony Adamcik

JRM

Wednesday 1st September

Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere/Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 viewed from Soldiers Road hill, 2 off Rockley, 1 Cogden Beach/Abbotsbury, 1 Morden Lake
Honey Buzzard -1 over Creekmoor
Hobby - at least 6 viewed from Soldiers Road hill
Knot - 6 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere, 3 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 6 Lodmoor
Redshank - 103 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 3 juveniles Weymouth Bay
Ring-billed Gull - 1 first summer at Crouch Hill Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Tern - 1 Cogden Beach
Yellow Wagtail - 30 Middlebere, 160 Lodmoor (yesterday)
Wryneck - 1 Middlebere track, 1 Tidmoor Cove, Fleet near Wyke Regis
Whinchat - 3 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 2 Chapmans Pool, 8 Cogden Beach
Spotted Flycatcher - 9 Chapmans Pool
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Cogden Beach


Whinchat Hartland Moor © Simon Johnson

JRM