Another 🌞 Maiden Castle day #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 #Dorchester 🪶 migrant Whinchat, resident Raven, Kestrel, Wren. 7 Stonechat, including juveniles. 3 summer resident Whitethroat. Rushy Pond, now Rushy Puddle, had a hunting 1 metre long grass snake. Juvenile migrant Willow Warbler nearby. Nuthatch & Tits.

Walk by the River Frome, West of Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Pied Flycatcher (first winter, stopping off on migration) ❤️ Spotted Flycatcher, pair Bullfinch, lots Chiffchaff (inc 3 juv on branch being fed by adult). 5 Kingfisher sightings (likely 1 or 2 birds. Hobby, Raven, 2 Buzzard, G Heron, Wrens.

Badbury Rings in the 🌞 #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Plenty of evidence of successful breeding... 31 Stonechat, 21 Whitethroat. Bullfinch family. Probable migrants, 2 lovely Willow Warbler in car park. 2 Wheatear. Small flocks Linnet & Goldfinch. Raven, Kestrel, Buzzard. Green Woodpecker. Red Kite at Blandford.

Fair weather cloud, zero rain, fresher at Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶Residents: Buzzard, 3 Raven, Kestrel. 4 Whitethroat at two sites, 2 Yellowhammer (a pair), 10+ Stonechat incl juveniles. 5 Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff. Small flocks of Linnet, Goldfinch, Starling, House Sparrow. Blue Tit family 😍

🌞 Lodmoor, bit windy #DorsetBirds #Weymouth 🪶 2 Green Sandpiper, c10 Lapwing, 18 Dunlin, 10 Blackwit, 6 Ringed Plover, few Oystercatcher, lots Canada. 3 Cattle Egret, several LtEgret & Grey Heron. Peregrine hunting! 2 Sandwich Tern, 30+ Common Tern. Cetti's family. Sparrowhawk, South of Came Down.

🌞 & jolly warm, #RSPB Arne. #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 @harbourbirds.bsky.social 🪶 4+2 Raven, lots Curlew, Canada. c10 each of Blackwit, Oyc, Cormorant. c20 juv Shelduck, several LtEgret & Grey Heron. Cuckoo heard Shipstal, CmSandpiper on Long Island, 4 Sandwich Tern. Nuthatch, Stonechat, tits&finches. 4 seals!

Wolfeton House #Dorchester #Dorset 🇬🇧 Grade 1 listed! Previous visitors, Kings, Queens & Sir Walter Raleigh... 🪶 flock of c200 Goldfinch on the thistles, a few House Martin overhead #DorsetBirds

End of a 2 week heatwave, but Maiden Castle parched with no rain forecast #DorsetBirds 🪶 3 Stonechat (1 juvenile), lots Linnet & Goldfinch. 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Kestrel. 🇬🇧

🌞 24degC Lodmoor RSPB 🪶 #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 4 Green Sandpiper at the Postbox Pool, 2 Great White Egret on the West scrape. c6 Lapwing, 2 Blackwit (one breeding plumage), Raven. Plenty Cm Tern & BH Gull with numerous juveniles. 20+ Med Gull. c10 Grey Heron, lot LtEgret. 40+Swift over Came Down

Last night, Monday, on Roman Road, Puddletown Forest for the Nightjars #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Up to 14 seen flying, including our favourite pair, who now appear to have two juveniles with them. So, breeding success! Multiple birds churring etc. Distant Tawny Owl heard. Strawberry Moon obscured by clouds.

First #Northumberland Eider at Amble & 24 RBM. Coquet island, 100s Grey Seals, Roseate Terns, lots Puffin, Guillemot, Sandwich & Common Tern. Hauxley NWT, flock Tree Sparrow, numerous birds, plenty of hides. Seahouses, Farne islands, 1000s Guillemot, Puffin & Kittiwake, 100s Arctic Tern, +Razorbill.

Nosterfield #Yorkshire 🇬🇧 🪶 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff. Little Ringed Plover, Avocet, Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing, Oyc, GCG, LtGrebe. Shoveler, Tuftie, Gadwall, Shelduck, Pochard. Med Gull! Marsh Harrier on Flasks.

Grandson, Charlie, just back from the World War 1 Battlefields on an organised school trip. He was able to visit a family grave and lay a wreath. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them... 🇬🇧

Roman Road, Puddletown Forest for 5 Nightjar on a moonless night. An obvious pair very close; the male settled on the path a few feet away several times. Loud churring from numerous birds close by. A Tawny Owl 🦉 in Thorncombe Wood. #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶

Just two #DorsetBirds Puffin at Dancing Ledge yesterday evening 🪶 4 Swift overhead. Many Fulmar. Plenty of nesting Guillemot on Durlston Cliffs & Cormorants nesting near Old Harry. 2 Gannet off Swanage. Numerous Sandwich Tern in Poole Harbour & Studland Bay. 2 Shelduck! @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Special 🪶, N Donaña 🇪🇸 🌞 Rufous Bush Robin, Yellow-crowned Bishop, W Olivaceous Warbler, Pratincole. 3 Short-toed Eagle, Montague's Harrier, lots Griffon Vulture, 2 Booted Eagle. 2 Penduline Tit, Great Reed Warbler, Ferruginous Duck, Marbled Duck families, many Bee-eater. 5 Roller NW of Manzilla ❤️

Donaña, Andalusia 🇪🇸 🪶 Great Reed Warbler, lots Whiskered Tern, Little Bittern 😍 Masses breeding Purple, Night & Squacco Herons. Booted & Short-toed Eagles. Many Black Kite. Griffon Vulture. Breeding colony of Spoonbill. Bee-eaters galore. 16 Iberian Yellow Wagtail, 1000s Flamingo, 10 Marbled Duck

Castro Verde Portugal 🇵🇹 🪶 Goodies; 2 Roller, 5 Great Bustard,2 Little Bustard, numerous TurtleDove & Bee-eater, 4 GoldenOriole, 2 Black-eared Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Montagu's Harrier. Lots Griffon & Black Vulture, BlackKite, M Harrier. Eagles; 2 Booted, 3 Spanish Impérial, 2 Bonelli's.

Red-necked Nightjar on the El Rompido patch tonight 🪶 Andalusia 🇪🇸

Highlights of El Andevalo & Sierra Pelada 🇪🇸 today: 🪶 Golden Oriole, Short-toed Eagle, Gt Spotted Cuckoo, Black-eared Wheatear, male Blue RockThrush. 2 N Wheatear, 3 Black Stork, 2 Booted Eagle, Black Kite, Quail, 10 Iberian Grey Shrike, 5 Woodchat Shrike, several Black Vulture, lots Griffon Vulture.

Double Dipper #DorsetBirds Day. Dipper on River Hooke at Kingcombe Meadows @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social also male&female Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, lots Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Wren, Swallow. SongThrush, 2 Swift. 2nd Dipper on the River Frome at Maiden Newton, GreyWagtail🪶

Hobby hawking over Radipole #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 at 1540hr. Also, Marsh Harrier & Buzzard. Another Hobby at Came Down, directly South of the woods at 1555hr, en route to Dorchester, Dorset. 🪶 😍 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetraptors.bsky.social #UKbirding

Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 2 Marsh Tit, Firecrest, Nuthatch, 2 Great S Wood, Green Woodpecker, 5 MistleThrush, 3 SongThrush, lots Blackcap, Wren, Chaffinch & Chiffchaff. Woodsford, R Frome, Garden Warbler, lots Reed & Cetti's Warbler, CmWhitethroat, Red Kite, several HouseMartin, 2 LtEgret.

Maiden Castle, delightful Dorset ☺️ #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 7 Greater Whitethroat, more heard singing; several in song flight. Corn Bunting atop the set-aside. A pair of spectacular Yellowhammer in the hawthorn. Numerous Linnet & Goldfinch. 2 Skylark on high. 3 Raven, 2 Buzzard. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Kingcombe Meadows: cafe recommended. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 10+ Swift, lots Swallow & House Martin. 2+ SongThrush, Blackcap, Jay, GSW, Greenfinch, numerous Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, Wren, Stock Dove, tits. Maiden Newton had DIPPER, 4 Grey Wagtail

Spent a happy 90seconds with Bonaparte's Gull at Lodmoor before it departed to Lynch Cove about 1045hr! No Garganey today 😢 25 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, 2 Sand Martin with lots House Martin & Swallow + one Swift. SongThrush, Reed & Cetti's Warblers, Blackcap. Many busy Cm Tern. #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧

Cogden Beach #DorsetBirds with S Dorset RSPB 🇬🇧 🪶 4 Swift, Swallows. Red Kite, 2 Tern, 2 Whitethroat (more singing), many Skylark, Goldfinch & Linnet, lots Blackcap singing. 8 Yellowhammer, 6 Reed Bunting, 10+ Stonechat. Bind Barrow had 2 more Whitethroat, masses Linnet, 4+ Stonechat. Jay at Swyre 😍

16kt East wind, 🌞 at Lodmoor #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Grey Plover, 3 Barwit! 2 Whimbrel, 2 CmSandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 20+ Cm Tern, c10 Sandwich Tern. Reed & Cetti's Warblers. Med Gulls in the flock. Lots Swallow & fewer House Martin. Kestrel. Radipole had numerous Sand Martin, some H Martin & 3 Marsh Harrier.

Sunny & windy at Badbury Rings for 11 Common Whitethroat, all singing. 7 Blackcap, a pair + 3 male contesting a female + another singing male. 2 Skylark, 4 male Stonechat, 2 (poss 4) very active Kestrel. Lots Linnet, several Swallow, 3 Raven. #DorsetBirds More Blackcap singing at Kingston Lacy. 🪶🇬🇧