Spotted Redshank on the Bund earlier found by Charlie Wheeler Photography . Flew off NW, next stop the Axe? Steve Waite Joe Stockwell kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

Spoonbill (1cy) Abbotsbury Swannery this morning but flighty. Also a Merlin. Yesterday’s highlight were Charlie Wheeler Photography’s 8 Egyptian Geese east. kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

A (1cy) Little Gull just gone down the Fleet Abbotsbury Swannery. Spoonbill still & now much more settled. Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

The very obliging Spoonbill still present today at Abbotsbury Swannery. Steve Groves Dorset Bird Club

The 1st 2 Scaup of the season this morning ⁦Abbotsbury Swannery⁩. Both 1st w (1cy). ⁦Joe Stockwell⁩ ⁦Charlie Wheeler Photography⁩ ⁦kevin butler⁩ ⁦Dorset Bird Club⁩

Gulls be like…”what storm?” Storm Ciaran crashing into Chesil, taken from my work at Abbotsbury Swannery this morning. 🌊 #storm #stormciarán #abbotsbury #abbotsburyswannery #fleetlagoon #gulls

The Long-tailed Duck still present Abbotsbury Swannery this morning refound by kevin butler Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography Dorset Bird Club

White-tailed Eagle just gone east from the Swannery after spending some time on the top of Chesters Hill. Also 2 Long-tailed Ducks (3 earlier) & 2 Scaup present. Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler Paul Harris Dorset Bird Club

Awesome sight today of a White-tailed Sea Eagle at Abbotsbury Swannery, thanks Steve Groves for the heads up. This is actually my first. Apologies for the poor quality but a heavy crop on a very distant photo… and that’s a Buzzard mobbing it 😳

113 Cattle Egret left the Abbotsbury roost this morning, the marked temperature difference rather unwelcome as I waited from 7:30! 🥶 Steve Groves

Pen Mute Swan flapping in the mist Abbotsbury Swannery

Nice comparison of sinensis & carbo Cormorants today. Note overall size difference, as well as difference in the gular patch shape, & less reliable but clear here, the extent of white on head. ⁦Joe Stockwell⁩ ⁦Charlie Wheeler Photography⁩ ⁦kevin butler⁩ ⁦Dorset Bird Club⁩

A surprising 1st for the Swannery this afternoon… Manx Shearwater! I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands off Abbotsbury Beach but never in or over the Swannery Embayment. Actually think this maybe the 1st live one for The Fleet! Photos courtesy of Charlie Wheeler Photography

There was once a flourishing Adder population in the drier areas of the Swannery Reed beds & a lot were black but this one today was the first one of any colour I’ve seen for years! 🙂 Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler

Mating Large Red damselflies and exuvia on reed stem at Abbotsbury Swannery. Steve Groves kevin butler

Great Reed Warbler ‘heard only’ at Abbotsbury Swannery this evening in an area with no general access. Access to be arranged tomorrow if known to still be present. Access from 10am admission £12.95. Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

🐣🐥🩵We have our first chicks! The Little Terns, Oystercatchers & Ringed Plovers have incubated their precious eggs & will now raise their young up, it won't be long until they start to make their first steps down to the shoreline to find their wings!🪶 rspb @ATChesil

The best I could do with one of the 2 Black Terns that Joe Stockwell found late afternoon. Also a White-tailed Eagle around & at least 1 Osprey. Good numbers & a nice selection of waders too but they didn’t stick. Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

A few good birds today Abbotsbury Swannery… a Swallow (1st glimpsed by Charlie Wheeler Photography this am) lingered this pm; the wild Whooper Swan still with our dodgy resident; but the best was a Purple Sandpiper found by Joe Stockwell. Only the 4th site record! kevin butler Dorset Bird Club

Very distant Stone-curlew at the Swannery this evening. Only my 2nd on patch in 37 years & 1st self found. The 3 Little Gulls still too. Joe Stockwell Charlie Wheeler Photography kevin butler Dorset Bird Club