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Wednesday 8th April 2026

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Date	Species	Site	Count	Observer
08/04/26	Swallow	Rareridge, Bishop's Waltham	2	P M Potts
19:00	SU560178.
08/04/26	Shoveler	Fleet Pond	2	N Hayward
17:55	1m 1f.
08/04/26	Cetti's Warbler	Fleet Pond	1	N Hayward
17:25	Heard from path near Wellington Ave.
08/04/26	House Martin	Abbotswood	2	C Hocking
10:00
08/04/26	Cuckoo	Longdown Inclosure, NF	1	C Whiffen
11:20	Great to hear the cuckoo again.
08/04/26	Cuckoo	Matley Heath	1	M Edgeller
15:30
08/04/26	Redstart	Acres Down, NF	1	M Edgeller
10:00	fem.
08/04/26	Mediterranean Gull	Blashford Lakes - Ibsley Water	2	K May
21:48
08/04/26	Willow Warbler	Blashford Lakes - Ibsley Water	1	K May
21:48
08/04/26	Reed Warbler	Blashford Lakes - Ibsley Water	2	K May
21:48
08/04/26	Snipe	Farlington Marshes	15	T Doran
18:45	14 came up from reed stubble along stream and circled up high for a few minutes before dropping back in - maybe birds preparing to head off - also one on the lake.
08/04/26	Swallow	Netley	1	I R Watts
08:05	->E.
08/04/26	Common Tern	Hill Head	2	T Carpenter
18:25
08/04/26	Linnet	Netley	2	I R Watts
08:00	m. On shore at Netley Rec.
08/04/26	Blackcap	Hamble Cliff	2	I R Watts
10:30	m.
08/04/26	Raven	Fawley Refinery	1	I R Watts
10:15	Viewed from Hamble Cliff. Private site. No public access.
08/04/26	Common Gull	Hamble Point	1	I R Watts
10:45	2s.
08/04/26	Turnstone	Hamble Point	24	I R Watts
11:00
08/04/26	Redshank	Hamble Estuary	8	I R Watts
11:00	Either side of Maritime College pier. Viewed from hamble Point.
08/04/26	Oystercatcher	Hamble Point	49	I R Watts
11:00
08/04/26	Linnet	Millersford Bottom	8	D E J Dicks
07:30	four pairs , now back in breeding territory.
08/04/26	Merlin	Millersford Bottom	1	D E J Dicks
07:30	fem type. Perched in lone tree in clearfell area . Mobbed by Pipits then flew off towards Turf Hill.
08/04/26	Wheatear	Portsdown Hill	1	C Harrison
18:20	Male to north of DSTL. SU618072.
08/04/26	Pochard	Longparish	1	M Randall
	Male.
08/04/26	Sedge Warbler	Cleeves (Longparish)	1	M Randall
	Singing.
08/04/26	Knot	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	A Nieuwkerk
16:00	Together with the Bar-tailed Godwits.
08/04/26	Great White Egret	Avon Flood, Keyhaven	1	A Nieuwkerk
11:30
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Lower Pennington Lane	6	A Nieuwkerk
08:00	Today seen in the wider area, and many more heard.
08/04/26	Swallow	Armsworth	10	S Powell
18:25	Birds arrived at local stables around 11am on the same date as last year. Within an hour they were visiting last year's nests and disputing ownership!.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Shawford Down	2	G Pullin
17:00	Earliest date across the past 6 years at this site.
08/04/26	Goshawk	Hampage Wood	1	R Broadway
10:00	Soaring over wood - looked like a juvenile.
08/04/26	Raven	Hampage Wood	1	R Broadway
09:20	Over calling.
08/04/26	Marsh Tit	Hampage Wood	2	R Broadway
09:20
08/04/26	Brambling	Hampage Wood	1	R Broadway
09:20	Perched on a tree branch.
08/04/26	Sedge Warbler	Itchen Abbas	2	R Broadway
08:20	Singing from reedbeds.
08/04/26	Cetti's Warbler	Itchen Abbas	3	R Broadway
08:20
08/04/26	Tree Pipit	Broughton Down	1	S Clemons
15:50	m. Singing.
08/04/26	White Stork	Whiteley	1	D Gorman
17:03	Circling playing fields and mobbed by gulls.
08/04/26	Peregrine	Newlands Farm (Stubbington)	1	M Rolfe
15:00
08/04/26	Red-legged Partridge	Newlands Farm (Stubbington)	2	M Rolfe
15:00
08/04/26	Marsh Harrier	Newlands Farm (Stubbington)	1	M Rolfe
15:00	fem.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Newlands Farm (Stubbington)	1	M Rolfe
15:00	Stroud Green Lane.
08/04/26	Red Kite	Pennington, Milford Road	1	R Coomber
15:15	Circling over garden before drifting away towards Keyhaven.
08/04/26	Dark-bellied Brent Goose	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
11:00	All alone at the far end!.
08/04/26	Avocet	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	12	R Wright
11:00
08/04/26	Spoonbill	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
11:00
08/04/26	Oystercatcher	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	10	R Wright
11:00
08/04/26	Greenshank	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
11:00
08/04/26	Black-tailed Godwit	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	40	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Eider	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Ringed Plover	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	2	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Dunlin	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	25	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Sandwich Tern	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	4	R Wright
10:00	On the western tip of the outermost mudflat off the Solent causeway.
08/04/26	Common Tern	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Little Tern	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	4	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Mediterranean Gull	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	20	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Spoonbill	Normandy Marsh/Lagoon	1	R Wright
10:00
08/04/26	Arctic Skua	Hill Head	1	M Francis
06:57	Dark phase east @06.57 Yellow wagtail in off a handful of common terns 3 distant diver sp likely RTD only other highlights.
08/04/26	Reed Warbler	Titchfield - Bridge Street Floods	1	J Cutting
15:27	First of the year for me, singing away!.
08/04/26	Yellow Wagtail	Keyhaven Marsh	1	K R Wilkes
11:20	ad. 1.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Fishtail Lagoon, Keyhaven Marsh	2	K R Wilkes
11:10	ad. 2.
08/04/26	Velvet Scoter	Cut Bridge (Milford on Sea)	1	S Laycock
08:30
08/04/26	Eider	Milford on Sea	10	R Coomber
07:25	Drifting with tide to east of green bouy. 5 ad m, 2 imm m and 3 f.
08/04/26	Common Scoter	Milford on Sea	28	R Coomber
07:25	11 heading towards Narrows and then 17 more heading east, circled and landed on sea.
08/04/26	Grey Plover	Pylewell (Lymington)	36	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Eurasian Whimbrel	Pylewell (Lymington)	2	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Redshank	Pylewell (Lymington)	28	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Greenshank	Pylewell (Lymington)	1	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Turnstone	Pylewell (Lymington)	25	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Knot	Pylewell (Lymington)	10	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Red Kite	Pylewell (Lymington)	2	J G Ross
12:00	Of course!.
08/04/26	Willow Warbler	Pylewell (Lymington)	1	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Cetti's Warbler	Pylewell (Lymington)	2	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Pylewell (Lymington)	2	J G Ross
12:00
08/04/26	Redstart	New Forest Golf Club	1	A J Dickety
14:14	male.
08/04/26	Mediterranean Gull	Blashford Lakes - Ibsley Water	2	P C Donaldson
11:00	Two on the water from Tern hide. Two plus hawking for insects above main car park.
08/04/26	Little Gull	Blashford Lakes - Ibsley Water	1	P C Donaldson
11:00	Long staying individual still present.
08/04/26	Wheatear	Middle Wallop Airfield	2	K J Simpson
09:35	fem. 1 female this morning and 2 this afternoon.
08/04/26	Goosander	Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash	1	J M Clark
12:15	male.
08/04/26	Wheatear	Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash	1	J M Clark
12:15
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash	1	J M Clark
12:15
08/04/26	Reed Warbler	Hook Links, Hook-with-Warsash	1	J M Clark
12:15
08/04/26	Reed Warbler	Hook Lake, Hook-with-Warsash	1	J M Clark
11:50
08/04/26	Greenshank	Hamble Estuary	1	J M Clark
	Hook spit.
08/04/26	Grey Plover	Hamble Estuary	1	J M Clark
	With AGP.
08/04/26	Dark-bellied Brent Goose	Hamble Estuary	41	J M Clark

08/04/26	Black-tailed Godwit	Hamble Estuary	75	J M Clark

08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Fishlake Meadows	1	P D Winter
13:05	Singing about 100m n of carpark.
08/04/26	Firecrest	Dundridge, Bishops Waltham	5	J Faithfull
12:45	In Galley down Wood.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Brownwich	3	D Wallace
11:25	2 along clifftop path east of Sea House; 1 along path towards Thatcher's Copse.
08/04/26	Willow Warbler	Woolmer Pond	2	M Lawn
	m & f. Together, giving the wing flapping pairing/mating display (not to be confused with the similar wing flapping in male/male aggression). Possibly my earliest ever female. They used to average c.10 days later than males.
08/04/26	Little Egret	Woolmer Pond	1	M Lawn
	My 1st of the year here, but just circled over pond & flew off. Water probably still too deep for them. It's mainly a late summer bird here.
08/04/26	Wheatear	Woolmer Forest	1	M Lawn
	SU7832.
08/04/26	Sedge Warbler	Fishlake Meadows	6	R Findlay
09:30	At least 6.
08/04/26	Reed Warbler	Fishlake Meadows	1	R Findlay
09:30	Next to the south screen - another one singing nearby.
08/04/26	Willow Warbler	Fishlake Meadows	2	R Findlay
09:00	One singing in willow scrub at the north end of the reserve. Second one singing next to the south screen.
08/04/26	Blackcap	South Moor, Langstone Harbour	6	P Hogston
10:15
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	South Moor, Langstone Harbour	2	P Hogston
10:15	In thick Blackthorn along path.
08/04/26	Swallow	Trinity Hill, Medstead	1	P J Beresford
09:41	First of the year over the garden. Also now three singing Firecrests and first Orange Tip of the year. SU656372.
08/04/26	Cuckoo	Chilbolton Common	1	T E G Parsons
09:20	Heard only.
08/04/26	AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER	Bunny Meadows (Warsash)	1	C Rose
11:35	Still on mud, showing well along shoreline.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Weston Shore, Southampton	4	I R Watts
09:00	Along roadside brambles.
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Taddiford	2	S Keen
08:30	Clear arrival on patch since Monday.
08/04/26	Shelduck	Netley	9	I R Watts
08:19
08/04/26	Turnstone	Netley	13	I R Watts
08:19
08/04/26	Common Whitethroat	Barton on Sea Golf Course	5	S Keen
07:45	At least.
08/04/26	Sandwich Tern	Netley	4	I R Watts
07:45
08/04/26	Great Northern Diver	Netley	2	I R Watts
07:46	South of Netley Rec.
08/04/26	Velvet Scoter	Hill Head	1	M Francis
07:30	On the sea out from the chalets.